I saw with with my daughter's girl scout service unit as part of a daddy daughter date night. So if was twenty dads and about thirty girls between the age of five and fourteen. They didn't care if there should be blacks in France or of they gay guy redeemed himself. They laughed, they sang along with the songs cheered at the end and the left the theater twirling humming the songs.
It was an improvement over the cation version. They closely followed the story line but they made a more complete character and made the relationship between him and Belle fuller and more believable. The Beat also got more back story and depth.
The biggest criticism is they used mostly Brits for a French story.