Beastly is supposed to be an updated version of Beauty and the Beast. Apparently, Daniel Barnz, the writer and the director of this film forgot the concept and the story. I saw it is was showing on cable one day and thought, "why not...it can't be that bad!" Well...
Alex Pettyfer who portrays Kyle/The Beast plays this character much like he acted in the movie "I Am Number Four" as "John Smith", brooding with an attitude and never really learning his lesson until the end. At least in that movie you have a good soundtrack! Kyle is a pretentious and mean young man and he humiliates the wrong person. A young lady named Kendra that unknown to him is a witch played by Mary-Kate Olsen. She retaliates and puts a hex on him and will not lift the curse until he learns a lesson. His father who acts no better than he does, leaves him with his housekeeper and a blind tutor played by Neil Patrick Harris. Lindy, the "beauty" that Kyle falls for brings a little brightness to the story but only a little. The story becomes too trivial and you start to lose interest in Kyle and his immediate problem. I can see why this film was forgettable in the theaters and it didn't last that long on the cable stations either. That is not a good sign.
