I have a problem when a movie gets its own timeline wrong. Well, not wrong, but definitely questionable. That's when my suspension of disbelief falls apart. I can't help it, I like math.
In Disney's Beauty and the Beast the filmmakers made references to time that just don't add up. The opening of the film explains that the Prince/Beast had to love and be loved in return by the time the enchanted rose stopped blooming on his 21st birthday. Later, during the song Be Our Guest, Lumiere sings "Ten years we've been rusting, needing so much more than dusting."
So, even though the opening sequence showed him looking just like he did at the end, the dialogue of the film indicates that when the Prince answered the door he was only ten years old. Which begs the question; why was an ten-year-old prince answering the door? There were (literally) dozens of servants. Surely, one of them must have been responsible for answering the door. And where are the King and Queen? And why do three people need that many servants? Downton Abbey only has about ten servants to take care of eight people.
What's most frustrating is that the problem could have easily been avoided by changing the word "Ten" to "For" in Be Our Guest. Even it you misheard and thought he said "Four" that would have made the Prince a more reasonable 17 years old.
That's all I got for now, but I might have other movie conundrums to decipher in the future.
