Pretty bad movie

No, Beauty and the Beast DEFINITELY had a bad story (I and plenty of others can name a LOT of plotholes within the story, like how Beast's castle in the beginning seemed to take a day at best to get there, yet in The Mob Song, it's at best a couple of hours away, not to mention Belle getting there around the same amount of time as the latter based on dialogue from Mrs. Potts and the Beast, the exact timetable of the curse, the villagers not hearing about the Prince or the curse despite the forest being implied to have suffered through the curse, and all of that, or how Belle's actions for the first half of the film actually CONFLICTED with the moral of the tale, or how Chip managed to find and get that device to save Maurice and Belle despite the fact that it was still under a tarp and on a wagon, or how Belle apparently was superhuman in the times she saved Beast and Maurice, yet ended up doing something as stupid as exposing him to Gaston and the villagers instead of just knocking Gaston out and setting the paddywagon on fire. Don't get me started on the Gaston reprise, which is a huge plot problem in itself, as in real life, whoever does what Gaston did regarding the reprise would at the very least find their popularity decrease, if not find themselves arrested for conspiracy, blackmail, and false witness; they most certainly would not be cheered on even if they personally didn't like the guy he was doing that kind of act against.), characterizations (Belle behaved more like how you would expect Belle's wicked sisters to behave, NOT the protagonist of a true beauty coming from within tale [you want a good idea of an actual pure-of-heart protagonist of a true beauty comes from within tale and how they behave, look at Terra Branford here: https://youtu.be/UstFWEOt28Y], and the triplets do not demonstrate ANYTHING indicating inner ugliness DESPITE being her foils [in fact, ironically, they came far closer to actually MATCHING the original Belle in terms of overall demeanor even with their crushing on a jackal like Gaston], and most of the cast, Beast aside, probably the one good character in the film, were massive stereotypes), morals (Let's see, Belle essentially gets away with deliberately breaking Beast's rule, with absolutely NO hesitance on her part and nearly getting herself killed out of sheer stupidity, and wins a blame game with Beast without even ATTEMPTING to acknowledge she herself was ALSO at fault for what happened, Belle largely acted like a spoiled brat for most of the first night, and it also teaches you that it's perfectly alright to just sell out your friends just to get yourself out of a lam and nearly get them killed. Besides, I get pretty irritated when people insist true beauty comes from within and imply as this film did that only people who are ugly on the outside can be beautiful on the inside, considering the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre exploited this and basically gave hell to those girls back during the 20th century. I might as well point out that with the way Belle's bookworm status was depicted, she'd actually become gullible enough to backstab Adam by the time the French Revolution occurs. Also, Lumiere's womanizing is treated as being in a good light, certainly he's not called out for that behavior at all, not even by Belle, which essentially makes her dislike of Gaston somewhat hypocritical.), and even visual appeal (Honestly, most of the characters just didn't look good at all, Belle at times looked like she was wearing makeup, and the villagers just looked off many times). The Little Mermaid beats that out in every area, though I don't even need to be a fan of The Little Mermaid to tell how Beauty and the Beast was a very badly done film. Heck, I might as well point out that Linda Woolverton not only made that awful Maleficent movie, but she and Time Magazine made VERY clear that she reused elements of that movie into Maleficent.

Also, if The Little Mermaid wasn't even close to the most successful Disney film from both a financial and critical point of view, please explain how it even MANAGED to single-handedly save Disney from certain bankruptcy/corporate merging, which should be evident by how it actually managed to delay a video release of Black Cauldron which was just out of the door specifically because of how The Little Mermaid was a runaway hit.