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hyped garbage

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Maybe this is worth 5 stars out of 10, but just something about it makes me leave my rating at 4 stars.The main reason to watch this movie is to gaze at the beauty of Vanessa Hudgens. I guess teen girls will enjoy looking at the male star.This isn't really all that bad of a movie - but it's just so simplistic and obvious and it's been done many times before - and better.I really do feel this is geared towards 12 to 15 year old kids - and not particularly smart ones. Not that that's a bad thing.But many of the rest of us will be naggingly unsatisfied by this pablum.

Seriously? The beast doesn't look ugly in the movie and he is not even beastly as the movie title would suggest. I'm so confused after watching this movie. How can you have such a great idea for a movie - a modern take on beauty and the beast - an then screw it this much up. I would have loved an uglier lead and a more beastly one, like a bruiting big beast. Alex is too much of a small skinny pretty boy to ever play a beast. Someone like Taylor Lautner could've been better, he is also a little bigger and more beastly (although he also kinda is a pretty boy). I actually would prefer Alex looking like the 'beast' than the 'normal good looking boy' - that must say something about the failed attempt to make him look ugly and scary. For a plot twist could it have been nice that she didn't love him already and that he ran out of time. And then the witch (aka Mary-Kate what are you doing in this movie? and where is your sister? JK great to see you cut the cord.. JK I missed Ashley) - the witch would go to Kyle and tell him that he ran out of time but she liked his development so much that she would reward him anyways and give him the choice to let him have his looks back or give Will his sight and Zola her children - and then he would finally prove how selfless he had become and choose that his friend's lifes got better and that he would stay 'beastly'. And then Lindy would come home from Machu Picchu and her and Kyle would get together and then she would tell him that she loved him - and he wouldn't care that it was too late - and they would live happily ever after 'beast' and girl. That would have been a better ending.What lifted this movie was that the cast was somewhat B- / C-list celebrities and you knew who they were. Not that the acting was moving. But at least you could appreciate seeing some familiar faces, perhaps they should've just chosen some different familiar faces. I also enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris although I didn't really get why he still was in his Barney Stinson character, but then again that might be why I enjoyed him in the movie. Also the reveal of Kyles ugliness to Lindy could have been a great scene filled with excitement and deep emotions - however it was pretty quick and flat.All in all this movie was just not well done.. I could have lived without seeing it. I give it 4 stars only because I know there are worse movies out there and because I love beauty and the beast even in a massacred version.. apparently.

Beastly happened to be on TV last night on Film 4 and I have never seen it before only clips of it online and I decided to check it out. The film is based on a Alex Finn novel and based on the fairytale Beauty & The Beast and tells the story about a arrogant narcissistic teenager named Kyle(played by I Am Number 4's Alex Pettyfer) who is so obsessed with toning himself all he cares about is himself and no one else as he attends Buckeston Academy High School. But all that is about to change for him when he calls Mary Kate Olsen's charcther(who happens to be a witch)ugly at a nightclub and so she gets her own back at him by transforming him into a hideous person. In order for him to return to his actual self he must find someone to love him for him(again like in the Beauty & The Beast tale where its the personality you go for NOT the way you look on the outside). Enter Lindy(played by Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical fame) who has a thing for Kyle as she met him at the nightclub before he got hideous and when she meets him again as he saves her from her father who killed someone(don't ask)and goes by Hunter now(Kyle does),he must try and protect her and also make Lindy fall in love with him. But will she love him in return?Bottom line this was a very contrived movie. The chemistry was not that great as the two main charcthers don't fall in love until the last half hour of the film,and also the film tries to be Twilight in a way(minus vampires).Basically everything about this movie was alright,nothing spectacular and I was glad to see it once. Overall its a 2.2/5 and a 4/10Also if you a fan of Pixie Lott she has some tracks on this movie including All The Boys and Broken Arrow.

I remember when I first watched this movie. It was two years ago -- I was over at my cousin's house past midnight, since that's where my friends would all gather to hang out often. Said cousin wasn't home, and Friend A was passed out on the couch in another room. So I was in my cousin's room with Friend B, bored, and we decided to look and see what movies were uploaded to the PlayStation 3.Lo' and behold, we came across "Beastly", and said friend told me that he'd seen it several years back and that it was garbage. We have a twisted world-view and thus we have ridiculous senses of humor, so we decided -- at 2 A.M. in the friggin' morning -- to watch this thing called a "film".It didn't take long to realize what type of movie this was. Y'know, the type that the director and writers very obviously intend to be one of those abhorrent disposable "chick flicks", a.k.a. films you go out to watch with your significant other because it's "like, ohmahgawd, so romantic!!" And I knew I was gonna be in for a very terrible experience, and I was not let down at all. So everyone involved in the creation of this movie can pat themselves on the back, because they succeeded two years ago from today in making two innocent men wish they had firearms available for the sole purpose of removing the memories of having watched said film the only way they know how -- forcefully, WITH BULLETS.I won't bother going in-depth with the characters and plot, because if you've seen any of the other 24948912829110389 films of this type, you already know them. In fact, if you even just read the plot summary, you know what happens in the movie.NONE of the characters are likable, except one, and that is a blind man played by none other than Neil Patrick Harris, which is literally the only redeeming quality of this film. Without any hint of hyperbole, he is the only reason this film got higher than a "1/10" from me. You will wish so desperately to beat the snot out of all the characters, because of the mind-numbingly stupid things they do and say.This film is so stupid, I actually think it may have been a sort of satire, taking all the tropes of these types of films and turning them on their heads, except that -- like I already said -- this film is too stupid for that, so I think that's giving the creators too much credit.Not to mention that the premise of the film itself is ridiculously boring and anemic as well. "Watch closely as this unlikable rich stereotypically-handsome jock douchebag transforms into an UGLY unlikable rich stereotypically-handsome douchebag (yes, this dichotomy was intentional), because he is a dick, and wants this girl!" That's literally the whole movie. Just some douchebag who gets cursed for being a douchebag, a very drab and boring one at that, and he has to "redeem himself" by...doing random good deeds, magical good deeds. While simultaneously chasing after a girl who is not as attractive as the film tries to get you to believe, and on top of that, is REALLY annoying as well.Great. No, not really, and you'd do well to stay away from this trash. Even if you're actually INTO these types of brainless teeny-bopper chik-flix, you can do much better.