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Beastly Reviews
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| 84 of 90 people found the following review helpful  It's a 5 star film in my imagination., By This review is from: Beastly (DVD) Having read the book and seen the movie within a week, I'm here to say that the movie could have been so much better.As is often the case, the book is always better than the movie. Often, for reasons unknown, the screenwriters/ directors/ producers decided what is worth keeping from the novel and what isn't. And often it is us the readers who are left disappointed with their vision. So what left me disgruntled was this: Why make Kyle refuse to learn in the movie? Part of the beauty of the novel was that Kyle found solace in the beauty of books and learning. I loved that he was able to relate his situation to the dark characters he connected to in classic novels. The book emphasized that Kyle went through a process where he began to care about himself as a person and cultivate his mind. Also, this process truly shows the relationship between him and his tutor and it's a very special one. In the movie- Kyle refused to learn and scoffed at books and... Read more 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful One for the Saps, By This review is from: Beastly (DVD) One for the saps. Maybe it's my recent break-up talking, but I liked this one. It's ultra-romance, where the bad guy realizes the error of his ways, and the poor-girl hot-chick still manages to look pretty and stay smart despite her severe family troubles - but the film knows what it is and doesn't shy away from it. The screenwriter tried to be "hip" with the dialogue, creating his own lingo that resembles a sore thumb at times when the actors (young and hip in their own right) stumble on, rather than integrate, the new lexicon.A highlight is Neil Patrick Harris as the blind tutor, whose frequent one-liners give the film a levity it greatly needs in order to stay away from the "I love you so much it hurts" scenario that a film like this always gravitates toward. Also a huge welcome back to Mary-Kate Olsen as the witch. Her outfits are a character all their own. The plot is simple and stays true to the book. It would be sacrilege to turn Alex Pettyfer into a real... Read more 14 of 17 people found the following review helpful  Deserves zero stars., By wysewomon "wysewomon" (Paonia, CO United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Beastly (DVD) Wow, I honestly did not think it was even possible to mess up a story so badly. When I read the book last winter, I wasn't too impressed, but at least the author included the main points that make the "Beauty and the Beast" tale what it is. Well, for some reason the scriptwriters decided to take all those things--the most interesting parts of the story, in my opinion, and throw them away. They obviously had NO IDEA that they were trying to tell an old French fairy tale with lots of tradition behind it, and instead opted to make a boring teen sap flick. Aside from the curse, virtually all of the magical elements were missing. The so-called Beast was not even really a beast; they simply made him bald and covered him with tattoos and some scars--hardly anything to earn a second glance in New York City. And I found the fact that the protagonist was so very ashamed of his new look, and the implications that a tattooed skinhead is intrinsically ugly, DEEPLY offensive. If I were the... Read more |
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