Beastly: Film Review
The best thing about this movie -- starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary-Kate Olsen -- is that it's only 86 minutes long.
Beastly defies some serious odds in moviemaking in that just about every creative decision, with a couple of exceptions, has gone very wrong. Bad enough that its makers cravenly chase the gravy train of teen fantasy-melodrama that long ago pulled out of the station with the Twilight series. But the witless manner in which the film desperately searches for the right ideas and moods to convey teen angst is not a pretty sight.
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