This is the predictable and rather derivative story of Kyle (Alex Pettyfer), the rich, pretty and arrogant high school boy who gets cursed by Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) and turned into a repulsive mess in order to explore the importance of inner beauty. He then develops a relationship with Lindy (Vannessa Hudgens) who sees through his ugliness and have you guessed it yet? Yes, they live happily ever after. For what it is, this film does offer an unusual and particularly unrealistic, take on Beauty and the Beast, and for who is in it, this film will probably attract a wide teenage girl audience, yet the characters lack depth and within the script, there seems to be no space for it. The otherwise impressive Neil Patrick Harris presents us with possibly the warmest character in the film, playing blind teacher Will. But even with his attempts to drag this film into the sphere of interesting, the work holds its weight in the foreseeable and not particularly impressive. The strangeness in the events and, most of all, the extremely implausible character response to all of the even more implausible events makes this film a weak desert. Eat only if starving.
Mirela Ivanova
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