(Didn't find a previous thread for this movie, if there is one, please merge)

Aimed at young teen girls, I found "Beastly" to have quite a lot of charm, mainly from its playful tone throughout its plotline. As a contemporary take on "Beauty and the Beast", Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is handsome Adonis-type with great hair and looks, but with little regards to being empathetic towards his lessers. He gets cursed with presenting his ugly insides with outwardly unsightly scars and tattoos and markings on now bald head, and has to learn how to truly court a girl he is interested in without his physical advantages in his former form, and that girl would be Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens, who I didn't much care for as a teen star on the rise, but as she gets older, she's gotten really pretty).

Kyle's initial attempts to woo Lindy are of the superficial kind, but he gets help from Zola (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and Will (Neil Patrick Harris), and slowlybecomes confident enough to reveal his scarred looks to Lindy. Can love be found between such a beauty and such a beast? Will Kyle ever return to normal, or is he stuck in this beastly transformation forever?

I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.

I didn't see the movie but my biggest problem with it was that Alex Pettyfer just doesn't look that beastly. Putting some squiggly lines on the face of a pretty boy doesn't really turn someone into a hideous monster. I mean...really??

IDK, but it makes for one hell of a video game experience.

it's not like he looks like Deadpool...

He's not ugly or beastly. He looks rather cool, I think. He wouldn't be out of place in today's society.

I agree.
I actually started reading the book before I saw the movie...and I like the book a lot better. It's a lot more detailed. The movie seems to speed by too fast, like most teen romance movies.

My wife saw it on Friday. She said it was "really good, right up until the end, which sucked." She has read the book, but she didn't really elaborate on how the movie changed the ending. She says she'll buy the Blu-ray though, since it's supposed to have an alternate ending...