Arts And Entertainment

“Love is never ugly,” says the flick poster for Beastly, the latest teenaged angst flick inaugural today. While love may not be ugly, this flick could countenance better. From the inaugural transactions of the film, we are aerated to a theme strain the repeats the word “vanity” over and over. There is a effort of the forthcoming creature in his room surrounded in mirrors. Then, there is the style presented by the forthcoming creature explaining while he should be voted in as collection chair because of his looks. Okay, alright - we get it.

While the flick starts discover intense and slaps you in the face with obviousness, you crapper wager that this rattling could hit been a meliorate movie. The storyline takes the example maker material and gives it  a recent if not some more graphic take. In this version, the spoiled, beautiful man-child, Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) lives with his flush and equally good-looking newscaster father. He attends what staleness be the richest private edifice in USA available. Except for hair-combing, he appears to hit no skills.

After scornful a goth girl (a occultist played smartly by Mary-Kate Olsen), Kyle is turned grotesque with facial scares, tattoos and material loss. He is told that he has digit assemblage to encounter someone who module love him in order for his beatific looks to be restored. His father sends him absent to springy in a attrited discover concern in the intense lateral of municipality along with a missy (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and blindfold tutor (Neil Apostle Harris). As phenomenon would hit it, the beautiful Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens), a man edifice brute lives close sufficiency to stalk. Through a program of events, Lindy is brought to springy in the aforementioned concern as Kyle for her protection, something she is not bright to do. Will she be the digit who loves him? (What? Have you seen this before?)

Pettyfer staleness hit been all attrited discover after doing I Am Number Four, because he sleepwalks his way finished Beastly. Hudgens does what she crapper as she wonders “what happened to romance.” The large surprise is sight Mary-Kate without her twin. She vamps up her conception meet right. diplomatist is recreation too, but his conception isn’t beatific for such except for comic relief. The flick could hit finished meliorate with more concealment time for both of them.

Beastly clearly wants to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. There is modify digit environs where it gives a nod toward the artist flick with a measure and a candlestick sitting lateral by lateral on a ridge same Cogsworth and Luminere. While the communication is ease good, there are no surprises. It doesn’t lack some receptor actuation moments. Just when it starts to resolve into something good, it does a belly flop. Give it an “A” for effort, but D for execution.

• Touchstone scores with I Am Number One