Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is one of the most popular kids at school. How can he not be? He is hot ,rich & superficial. He is also an arrogant jerk. When he pisses off the wrong girl – Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), she casts a spell on him that makes his biggest nightmare come true- she makes him really deformed and ugly, making his soul take over his looks. She gives him a year to find someone to love him the way he is or he will stay like this forever.
So Kyle becomes a recluse, hiding from the world. He only keeps in contact with Will (Neil Patrick Harris), a blind instructor.
When he meets the beautiful and nice Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) as his new self, he decides to be all that he can be with her. He believes that there is no way she can ever fall for him, but he does his best to make her happy.
Unfortunately, he is running out of time. Will Lindy fall for her before the year is over?
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Based on the novel by Alex Flinn, written and directed by Daniel Barnz; Beastly fantasy/romance/drama is coming to the theaters in 2011. I have to say the trailer looks intriguing – it is a modern touch to the Beauty and The Beast story. I am not really big on Vanessa Hudgens but she didn’t annoy me in the trailer
As for Mary-Kate Olsen, it is good to see her work separately from her twin sister Ashley Olsen. I really enjoyed their Full House (1987-1995) when I was younger but they dragged the whole cute twins act for too long – making movies on the theme. Beastly seems like a fine story to enrich Mary-Kate’s roles.
I have always hated arrogance and meanness, regardless of the person’s looks. So it will be fun watching Kyle’s character get some life lessons.
Yes, nothing much will probably come to the table but I did like the effects and the make-up they put on Alex. So yes, I will see this movie.
