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Title: Beastly (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Alex Pettyfer | ... | Kyle | |
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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 | |
| Jonathan Dubsky | ... | Student at Green Party | |
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David Francis | ... | Dr. Davis |
| Neil Patrick Harris | ... | Will | |
| Rhiannon Moller-Trotter | ... | Halloween Partygoer | |
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Steve Godin | ... | Junkie |
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Gio Perez | ... | Victor |
At the Buckeston Academy High School, the wealthy, arrogant, narcissistic, and bigoted Kyle Kingson is a student who does not respect his classmates. When Kyle is elected representative of the students, he plays a prank on the outcast Kendra, who has a reputation as 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 him 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 will fall in love with him. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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!