Review of Beastly (2011) by Larry L — 29 Oct 2012
Not the best adaptation of the "Beauty and the Beast" story by any means. More to that point, I did not read the novel of this movie, nor have I read any novel of this classic story. But even so, while this movie wasn't bad, it had at least one big flaw that bugged me to the point where I couldn't sleep that night.
This movie kind of lets things happen on it's own. It seems as if it kind of just assumes we know the story, and it doesn't make any real effort to go really deep. I had high expectations for this movie after seeing the trailer.
Of course, trailers are almost NEVER an accurate impression of what the actual movie is going to be. I have seen movies with great trailers that turned out to be trash, and vice versa. All in all, this was an okay movie, but don't expect much from it.
It's straightforward and predictable. The film doesn't want to be, you can see what the screenwriters were trying to do, but it never got it's head above water in regard to their efforts. So watch it, don't watch it, I really don't care.
If you really like the story of Beauty and the Beast and want to make comparisons, or just want to watch every adaptation of the story for whatever reason, then you'll probably at least like it. Some seemed to hate this one, but I don't really see any harm done.
I will say this film really isn't a tearjerker, though that seemed to be the promise in the trailer, but I guess not. I have seen better.
This review of Beastly (2011) was written by Larry L on 29 Oct 2012.
Beastly has generally received mixed reviews.
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