You go, Doog!

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

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

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

'Beastly' is a special brand of hogwash: a fairy tale that preaches inner beauty while refusing to obscure the looks of its doomed hero.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 20, 2011

In every aspect, from story to tone to characterization to visual aesthetic, it's laughably perfunctory, as though everyone involved were too embarrassed to give it more than a half-ironic token effort.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 4, 2011

Beneath it all, however, is a movie with a good heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2011

This is Beauty and the Beast for the Twilight generation; they've paid for abs and sparkles, and they insist on getting their money's worth.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 9, 2011

Stunningly bad.

| Original Score: D- | Mar 5, 2011

Teens convinced that a pimple will kill their social life will find Beastly bracingly honest. It's the cynicism, not the phoned-in uplift, that works in this JV Grand Guignol.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 4, 2011

There are flashes of genuine wit and charm that, while they cannot support the rest, hint at what was intended and not realized.

| Mar 4, 2011

Resistance to this sort of commingling of the classical tale with the high school milieu is, as ever, totally futile, and to its credit, Beastly doesn't try so hard to fit within the framework of the fairy tale that it bends itself all out of shape.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2011

Beastly gets one timeless fact right: For hatchet faces, fatty cakes and Frankenskanks, high school can definitely feel like a curse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2011

Meant to cash in on the craze for fantasy films about hormonal teens started by a certain chick-lit vampire series, Beastly merely shows how Twilight got it right.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 4, 2011

You have to admire the bravery of the filmmakers, who went ahead and made a movie despite not understanding the subject matter. It's also pretty impressive that anyone could miss the point of Beauty and the Beast.

| Original Score: D | Mar 4, 2011

More than lives up to its name with ultra-campy performances, high-glucose direction (Daniel Barnz), laughable dialogue, cheesy effects and a back-lot simulation of a Manhattan street that wouldn't pass muster on an after-school special.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 4, 2011

Oh, yes, the script is a little ham-fisted, plowing through exposition and establishing character with a steam shovel, but in a tale like this, sometimes being obvious and cutting to the chase can be a virtue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2011

[A] tin-eared, corny attempt at fairy-tale interpretation.

| Mar 3, 2011

In an era of bullies and mean girls, "Gossip Girls" and "Pretty Little Liars," it's nice to have such a tenderhearted fairy tale.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 3, 2011

A pallid, formulaic teen romance that might have benefited from a little snark.

| Mar 3, 2011

Beastly is just as superficial and obsessed with looks as the characters and the mindset it rails against, which would seem like a bitter, frustrating irony if it merited the emotional reaction to care that much.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2011