The script is different - it irons out some plot holes, builds up some minor characters and has a new song. Not substantially different, or worth watching, but if the same script had been used for the original it would have been a fractionally better film.
They also threw some overt LGBTQ colour into the mix in the form of LeFou, which was a pleasant surprise, if not quite as progressive a move as it might have been given how pitiful and pathetic a creature the character was presented as for much of the runtime.
I hope they plough through the Greatest Hits quite quickly with these Live Action Nearly Renditions and I hope they all make a whole bunch of money so that eventually we might be in a position where a Live-ish Action
Fantasia, made in the spirit of the original, is something we can expect to actually see. Imagine that. Imagine a Live-Ish Action anthology film modelled on
Fantasia. All the different segments farmed out to suitable hands. Bill Morrison doing a bit for it, maybe. Guy Maddin. It'd be fucking brilliant, but, wouldn't it? Would.