Enter “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.” This 1997 straight-to-video expansion flick directed by Andy Knight was both a holiday and non-holiday watch for my sister and me.

Add to that a pair of fourth-rate direct-to-video continuations (Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle’s Magical World), a video game, and the cruel and exacting Beauty and the ...

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a product of Disney’s direct-to-video era, where the House of Mouse pumped out cheaply made sequels, prequels, and midquels from 1994 to 2008 ...