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Summary: After arrogant teenager Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) humiliates a Goth classmate (Mary-Kate Olsen), she puts a curse on him that transforms him from a hunk into a hideous creature. To break the hex, Kyle must find someone who loves him for what he's become. Living with a housekeeper after his heartless father (Peter Krause) throws him out, he connects with an addict's daughter (Vanessa Hudgens) in this contemporary take on Beauty and the Beast.
Beastly isn't a good film. Does that stop it from being somewhat enjoyable? No, I don't think so. It made me laugh for most of its runtime, and by the end, yes, I thought it was sweet and its heart was in the right place, even if earlier events were genuinely creepy. The actors aren't good, the writing is poor, the plot meanders for too long in one place, and almost every time the film tries to be serious, it failed. But I had fun, so I'm not going to say it's not necessarily worth a watch.
In the lebensraum of Beastly, the Beast of Beauty and the Beast is not a man turned into a terrifying creature, but a man with Arabic script (written the wrong way) on his eyebrows.
"This is Beauty and the Beast for the Twilight generation; they've paid for abs and sparkles, and they insist on getting their money's worth." - Richard Larson
I wouldn't call it offensively bad or anything, but it's very rushed. I know a bunch of time goes by in the movie, but it feels unnatural. And it's cheesy, not in a good way. -whispers- I love you. Yeah, we get it, the words are powerful. And the way dude handled himself in a fight was like he got super powers all of a sudden. What a hero. But seriously, it's like at the beginning they make the worst possible guy ever just to show you just how quick a man can transform.
Ugh, this movie is so painfully shitty that you'd have spent your time better if you scraped the muscles off your legs. And why is it that every time I see Alex Pettyfer in a movie my dislike for him grows just a little more?
Very chiché and predictable, and it felt like it was aimed at a teenage audience more than anything, but I still enjoyed this film. Its a twisted take on the Beauty & The Beast tale for modern audiences and I think that part was done well, but its hard to avoid the chiché's that were included. Alex Pettyfer & Vanessa Hudgens were very good together and Kyle quickly turns from a very unlikeable character to the complete opposite. Overall could have been better but still a decent film!