Beastly (2011)

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.

Director:

Daniel Barnz

Writers:

Daniel Barnz (screenplay), Alex Flinn (novel)

Stars:

Alex Pettyfer, Justin Bradley, Mary-Kate Olsen

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alex Pettyfer	...	Kyle Kingston
Justin Bradley	...	Student
Mary-Kate Olsen	...	Kendra
Dakota Johnson	...	Sloan
Erik Knudsen	...	Trey
Vanessa Hudgens	...	Lindy
Karl Graboshas	...	Male Teacher
Peter Krause	...	Rob
LisaGay Hamilton	...	Zola (as Lisagay Hamilton)
Jonathan Dubsky	...	Student at Green Party
David Francis	...	Dr. Davis
Neil Patrick Harris	...	Will
Rhiannon Moller-Trotter	...	Halloween Partygoer
Steve Godin	...	Junkie
Gio Perez	...	Victor

Storyline

In the Buckeston Academy High School, the wealthy, arrogant, narcissist and bigot Kyle Kingson is a student that does not respect his classmates. When Kyle is elected representative of the students, he plays a prank with the outcast Kendra that has the fame of being a witch. He invites her to a party and humiliates her in front of their classmates. However, Kendra curses him with a spell that makes Kyle as ugly as his soul. Further, she tells that if he does not find anyone who loves him within a year, he will be doomed to that appearance forever. When Kyle's father Rob Kingson sees him, he takes Kyle to specialists but the doctors do not know what to do. So Rob hides Kyle in an apartment with a maid and a blind tutor. When Kyle sees his mate Lindy on the streets, he saves her from a dangerous drug dealer and he brings her to his apartment to protect her. Now his only hope is that Lindy falls in love with him.

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Plot Keywords:

love | student | high school | curse | blind | 

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Taglines:

Love is never ugly

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language including some crude comments, drug references and brief violence

Details

Official Sites:

CBS Films [United States] Official site [Germany]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 March 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Beastly - Schau in sein wahres Gesicht

Filming Locations:

Pont Pierre Laporte, Québec, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£553,069 (UK) (22 April 2011)

Gross:

$27,854,896 (USA) (13 May 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Films, Storefront Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Zac Efron was talked about to be cast as Kyle.

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Goofs

Will refers to a 1954 movie "Devil Girl from Mars," saying that it is about an alien that wanted to abduct teenage girls for breeding stock. The actual movie Devil Girl from Mars has a female alien abducting men for breeding stock.

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Quotes

Lindy: What can I say, I'm substance over style.

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Connections

Version of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

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Soundtracks

"Vanity"
Written by Lady Gaga (as Stefani Germanotta), Rob Fusari and Tom Kafafian
Performed by Lady Gaga
Courtesy of Interscope Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Waste of money and time

The plot was great, being though it was the modern take on beauty and the beast. However, the script was terrible. Everything seemed so rushed.

Kyle wasn't even arrogant long enough. He made one or two rude comments and next thing you know he turned beastly. In fact I didn't realize he was being rude until like seconds to minutes later. That's how cheesy his lines were. And on top of that, he started falling in love with her before he was turned beastly which totally contradicts the whole point of him being that way. He's supposed to be ugly inside and out.

Liddy or, whatever her name is, wasn't turned off by him like Belle was in the animated version. She couldn't stand him whereas Liddy liked him from the beginning. She called him a jerk once but that didn't even sound convincing. So corny. The fight scene where Kyle calls himself saving her was so bad I was nearly in tears from laughing. What a shame because the concept of the movie was so awesome and this could've been a really great movie.

Bottom line, it was a waste of money, gas and time. I could've waited until this came out on Netflix. Sorry but this movie was just terrible!