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Beastly (2011)

March. 04,2011
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5.5
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PG-13
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A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

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Lovesusti
2011/03/04

The Worst Film Ever

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KnotStronger
2011/03/05

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

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Ava-Grace Willis
2011/03/06

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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Married Baby
2011/03/07

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

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astonishme
2011/03/08

Great acting. Simple plot. This is a small budget film with big actors that is destined for failure but actually shows up, greatly. Ahead of its time. This is a watch about 6 times a year film or anytime you think of love. Give it a chance, with an open mind, and you'll be thankful you did.

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Leofwine_draca
2011/03/09

A truly ugly, mean-spirited teenage romance that seems to have copied the general style of TWILIGHT and is clearly aimed at the same audience, i.e. teenage girls. It's horrible stuff indeed, sort of a modern-day riff on THE UGLY DUCKLING but with some truly repulsive morals behind it.Alex Pettyfer - forever stuck making embarrassingly poor teen films due to his supposed good looks - plays a vain narcissist - hardly a stretch then - who is cursed by a witch into becoming a repulsive beast. Yes, it's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for modern viewers, caught with an unpleasant twist: if he can get a girl to fall in love with his ugly self within a year, he'll be 'cured'. So the film hardly celebrates ugliness, it's just a torture the hero has to rid himself of while playing up the typical Hollywood idealised image.Needless to say, the acting is very poor, and Vanessa Hudgens is particularly charisma-free as the love interest. Neil Patrick Harris is the best thing in it as the blind tutor, but that's little compensation for what is an appalling viewing experience.

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WackyKacky
2011/03/10

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.

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phoenix 2
2011/03/11

Beastly is a modern look on the classical story beauty and the beast. An arrogant rich boy, Kyle, is cursed by a witch and he is turned into an ugly "monster", a situation that can be permanent unless he can find someone to love him in a year. During that year, Kyle discovers his real self and fells in love with one of his old classmates, Lindy, who stays with him in order to be protected by some gang to whom her father owns money. To be honest, I expected more from it. The season 2011-2012 was a great season for movies based on fairy tales, and even though I finally watched beastly some years after, I still believed it would be interesting. However, from the start, it didn't lived up to the expectations. The story line is pausing at some points, when at some others, the script just rushes forward, getting very confusing and slightly stupid and cheesy. The action scenes are, well, not good enough, and the romance, good, but it could have been better. The ending especially was really bad, when Lindy rushes out of the airport to find Hunter ( the beastly self of Kyle) only to bump into Kyle in his real self. But, there were some good things about beastly, though. Some lines were clever and funny, and the atmosphere was fairytale-like. So 3 out of 10, because I wouldn't watch it again, but the performances were decent and there were some good parts in it. But still the movie seemed like it was put in fast forward.

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