Review of Beastly (2011) by Simon C — 25 Jan 2012

So, the producers couldn't make him actually ugly, or they'd lose their target demographic. I get that. So, one moral spoiled so far. But the other great lesson the film completely soils for its impressionable middle school audience is "Don't pick on the weird kids.

" "Leave them alone," Beastly unwittingly teaches. "But don't do it to respect them as people, but to isolate them out of fear, because all the awful rumors you've heard about them are probably entirely true.

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