BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

lisafordeay 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.

WackyKacky One reviewer said this movie was so different from the book, it could have been renamed. I agree 100%.I am a Beauty and the Beast fan from way back. The first time I saw Beauty and the Beast was in french with English sub-titles. I was a teenager at the time. Since then I have seen many versions, read a couple of versions (there is no author, it's an anonymous folktale). My daughter read Beastly and enjoyed it. So when the movie was going to come out, I too read her book (just started out seeing what was in it).I had some issues with the book (the girl was held hostage but WHY? She was pretty much had a horrible home situation and was in need of a home. I thought that keeping her up in the attic was silly. He could have figured a way to offer it to her as a living arrangement without kidnapping her. The Beast: I thought the "Beast" makeup was anything but. I can find more ghastly looking people who have had plastic surgery to alter their appearance. So he had tattoos and piercings? Really?! That might have made him hideous in, say, the 1950's, but certainly not now with the amount of piercings and weird things people do to their bodies. He really didn't need to hide his face. Do some web searches and you'll see that he looked tame compared some of the people you'll find pictures of.Beauty: Vanessa didn't look anything like the book character, which was disappointing. However, the fact that she looked so different, albeit pretty enough, could have forgiven that if she portrayed the character of Beauty well. But she didn't. As others have said, her acting was flat. I found no chemistry between Beauty and the Beast so it was hard to care if they ever got together (although knowing they DID, I still couldn't have cared less).My tween daughter was vastly disappointed in the movie. She couldn't relate to all the changes made from the book and wondered why they felt they needed to do it. She felt insulted that they thought a teenager couldn't relate to the story unless it was made into senseless drivel. Even the opening music was more reminiscent of a B quality high school musicals (no pun intended). A well made movie (which might have happened with better actors and sticking to the book) could have been made, and they would have broadened their audience. As such, the author made the mistake of allowing the wrong people to make her book into a movie. A good movie would have increased book sales. As such, the movie probably killed them.My suggestion: read the book. It is NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIE.

KenMishima 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.

Hollywood_Yoda To take an elegant story like Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and turn it into this is a shame and a waste of talent. The story is horrid, the acting is terrible. The only thing I kept hoping was that was almost over.Not a big fan of Vanessa Hudgens or Alex Pettyfer, and this film did not help that.More could have been made of a live action version of Beauty and the Beast, but the filmmakers here just threw this mess together like a bad lunch. I gave it 4 stars just because I feel so sorry for the people who DID work hard! A bad movie that I wish I could have avoided! AWFUL!!