adonis98-743-186503 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. Beastily is definitely better than it usually gets credit for especially the message it tries to send about what does beauty truly mean like in reality? The acting wasn't that bad and i even enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris as this blind man persona i thought he was very good in his role. The film has it's fair share of flaws as well tho but still they don't really destroy it completely or make it cheesy and stupid.. (7/10)

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.

phoenix 2 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.

SnoopyStyle Buckeston Academy is an expensive New York High School. Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) is a rich, popular, vain, arrogant student. Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) is the sweet scholarship student Kyle never bothers with. Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a witch and after the latest insult from Kyle, she turns him into a hideous mess. He won't turn back unless someone says 'I love you' within a year. His father Rob (Peter Krause) is shock and sets him up in an apartment. Kyle isolates himself and his father doesn't even visits anymore. Only the maid and a blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris) is left in his life. Kyle starts following his schoolmate Lindy as his possible salvation. He rescues her from a dangerous drug dealer and forces her to stay with him.Kyle is a douche at the start. Even the rescue is tinged with a lot of self interest. The setup and that whole world is one fake construction. It's not fanciful. It's just false. Whereas 'Beauty and the Beast' takes the POV of the beauty, this takes the POV of the beast. It doesn't improve anything. Quite frankly, none of the actors do a good job. There is no chemistry and no passion. It's an interest attempt but a near miss nevertheless.