With the success of the
Twilight franchise, there was bound to be another hormone-laden supernatural teen lust-fest on the Hollywood horizon, so it’s no surprise that
Beastly, based on the novel by Alex Flinn, is the latest film to capitalize on the impossibly chiseled antihero who falls for the cute virginal high school student -- only this time instead of vampires and werewolves, we have a somewhat deformed tattooed monster who manages to be both obnoxious and kind of hot. The film is a modern retelling of the classic fairytale
Beauty and the Beast, and despite the potential a premise like that presents, writer/director Daniel Barnz (
Phoebe ...
Released:
2011
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins