You go, Doog!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 4, 2023

Beastly does not aspire to compete with its prestigious ancestors, rather it aims to entertain the young women its catered to. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 6, 2022

Good messages in an uneven movie that has some very effective moments early on but gets more ridiculous as the credits approach.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Beastly is made precisely for those people who will enter the movie theater not 100% sure that the film is a retelling of the "Beauty & The Beast" storyline.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

The story is so contrived it's almost physically painful. Everything is laughably bad, everything. But somewhere along the line, I found myself emotionally invested in this syrupy nonsense on the screen.

| Original Score: C | Jul 13, 2020

It really isn't quite that awful. It's just beastly.

| Jul 26, 2019

Aimed squarely at Twilight's teenage fans, this is about as subtle as a baseball bat to the head and only marginally more enjoyable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 21, 2017

Beastly isn't good but it's not nearly as awful as I expected.

| Oct 24, 2017

So this isn't a great re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, but Beastly does have mass tweener appeal.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 2, 2013

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Daniel Barnz's movie certainly doesn't have any inner depth behind its slick surface, but Neil Patrick Harris's nifty wisecracks, Mary-Kate Olsen's spooky glares and the brisk pacing means that Beastly isn't quite as hideous as you might imagine

| Aug 31, 2011

Hudgens is a likeable on-screen presence, Olsen a complete riot, and Pettyfer teases teeny bits of a performance as a genuinely unpleasant baddie that could be the making of him one day, should the right script come along.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Beauty and the blech.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 3, 2011

... tone deaf (do students today really say "hurl chunks" and "Too cool for school"?), predictably plotted, filled with drippy love songs that would embarrass Bryan Ferry.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2011

Some snappy pacing and hints of pain throbbing beneath the cool sarcasm of teens push much of Beastly past its skin-deep pandering to a teen demographic. Still, this 21st-century fairy tale doesn't wilt, but it's not quite refreshed, either.

| Apr 25, 2011

It's basically programming a generation of young girls to yield to the will of a patriarchal society and grow up to become biddable Stepford Wives. This evil must be stopped.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2011

Beauty And The Beast except with the lusty, gothic menace that makes that story interesting replaced by moany teenagers and crap acoustic guitar music. Or, in short, Dawson's Freak.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 24, 2011

Undermines its central message about substance over style by sacrificing characterisation for glossy visuals.

| Apr 22, 2011

Beastly doesn't quite cover it. Not even monstrous, gruesome or grotesque come close.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 22, 2011

It's not nearly as bad as you've probably heard, thanks to a mercifully short running time and decent performances throughout, but a sloppy script denies Beastly the hormone-infused gravitas it desperately needs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2011