It was released on February 17, 1998,[1] and it is the sequel to Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast and the third in the Beauty and the Beast films, featuring the voices of David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Robby Benson as The Beast, Gregory Grudt, who replaced Bradley Pierce as Chip Potts, Paige O'Hara as Belle, Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, and Jerry Orbach as Lumiere.

When first released in 1998, the film consisted of three connected segments, which are "The Perfect Word", "Fifi's Folly" and "The Broken Wing".

For the special edition released in 2003, another segment was included, "Mrs. Potts' Party" (from Belle's Tales of Friendship) making the film 22 minutes longer.

The film consists of three episodes of an unreleased television series, loosely woven together in a feature-length story and also based on the original Disney animated feature.

That night, however, the truth comes out, and after a furious chase around the castle, the Beast catches and banishes Webster with brokenhearted Crane and LePlume for the forgery, throwing them into the forest.

In the end, things are cleared up and Lumiere and Fifi go for the ride, but the pot they are sitting in slips off the edge of the balcony and hangs over the moat.

Mrs. Potts is feeling depressed due to dreadful weather, and Belle decides to cheer her up by throwing a surprise party for her.

Lumiere and Cogsworth, after a scolding from Belle, decide to put their rivalry behind them for good and work together to make a small surprise for Mrs. Potts.

[citation needed] The film was retitled to Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World for its Special Edition, when released on VHS and DVD on February 25, 2003, in North America.

This release included another segment from the cancelled TV series, called Mrs. Potts Party, making the film 22 minutes longer.

The film was re-released on DVD on November 22, 2011, with a new bonus feature, Sing Me a Story with Belle episode, "What's Inside Counts".

[5] DVDDizzy spoke poorly of the "Disney employee who had the idea to salvage episodes created for an animated TV series that wasn't going to materialize by stringing them together as a direct-to-video feature film", noting that it resulted in one of the very worst movies Disney put their name on.