Beastly

2011 • 86 minutes

About this movie

A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the weaker and less attractive. When Kyle invites his misfit classmate Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) to an environmental rally at their school, she questions his motivations but reluctantly accepts. Later, Kyle blows Kendra off, prompting the spurned goth girl to cast a dark spell on the swaggering egotist. The spell causes Kyle to transform into an unsightly creature that strikes fear into the heart of everyone he meets, and the only way to reverse it is for him to find someone who can love him for who he is on the inside. Subsequently sent by his repulsed father to live in Brooklyn, Kyle forges a tenuous friendship with his kindly housekeeper (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and his blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris). When Kyle witnesses a drug addict in a desperate struggle with a menacing dealer, he intervenes, promising to protect the addict under the condition that his beautiful daughter, Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens), comes to live with the unsightly recluse in his sprawling Brooklyn home. Over time, the two forge a relationship that grows much deeper than anything Kyle has ever experienced before. MPAA Rating: PG-13 2011 CBS Films Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

Most would call this a "Girly Flick", but I call it excellent!! It provided not only entertainment, mystery, hope. and the tragedies that some of face in life pressures. Here you have a young girl's life that she feels that is so bad she's will to travel across several continents for escape. A young man's plight not only to be notice by the one person that is important to him than life itself. But to register at least on the radar for his father's affection. Providing proof that money doesn't get you everything, but life's simplicities does. I highly recommend this as a must see.

Definitely not a horror movie. It was a teen chick flick. Had a moral, if it was any more obvious it would come right out of the screen and smack you. Pettyfer was much better than I had anticipated. He will grow into a fine serious actor. The makeup artists deserve the real credit for the movie. They did such a great job and with the help from computer graphical design teams to make him beastly, they did wonders making him look like that and making it progress throughout the movie. Gvood job to them.

Why is it in the horror genre on here? there is nothing horror to it, not one bit, if anything it a drama. Sure is has ONE fight scene in it, but it only a few seconds long and their is no blood or gore. Surely google people are smarter then to judge a movie's genre on the movie and not the name. Anyways, it a good movie felt a bit rushed in some spots, and the ending could of been a bit more then it was. It a nice retelling of the old beauty and the beast story with modern settings. But it was still a good movie at least worth a rental, if not to buy if you really like it and want to see it more then once.