Hmmm... whut? Pretty much sums up my first impression of this.
On the one hand, I wasn't impressed with Cinderella. Pete's dragon looked ATROCIOUS from the trailers I saw and I am 50/50 on the new Beauty and the Beast live action coming out. Having said that! I did really enjoy Maleficent and aside the awful soundtrack, I also liked the Jungle book remake. If I watch this one, I will view it as a stand alone film and not link it to the original (Kind of what I do with the Harry Potter book and films) and not even associate it with the original. I think if you see it as a 'remake' you tend to expect too much and it won't live up to your expectations, whereas if you view it as a stand alone, it might suprise you. If that makes any sense at all xD
I'll give it a watch is the tl;dr here