111. Beauty and the Beast (#248)

Summary: Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week joined by special guest Andy Melhuish, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them. This time, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise's Beauty and the Beast. Once upon a time, a tired traveller came upon an isolated castle. Imprisoned by a foul-humoured beast, the man's daughter was forced to trade her father's freedom for her own. However, over time, the young woman comes to realise that there may something human lurking beneath the creature's monstrous exterior. At time of recording, it was ranked the 248th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.