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Storyline
At the Buckeston Academy High School, the wealthy, arrogant, narcissistic, and bigoted Kyle Kingson is a student who does not respect his classmates. When Kyle is elected representative of the students, he plays a prank on the outcast Kendra, who has a reputation as a witch: he invites her to a party and humiliates her in front of their classmates. However, Kendra curses him with a spell that makes Kyle as ugly as his soul. Further, she tells him that if he does not find anyone who loves him within a year, he will be doomed to that appearance forever. When Kyle's father, Rob Kingson, sees him, he takes Kyle to specialists but the doctors do not know what to do, so Rob hides Kyle in an apartment with a maid and a blind tutor. When Kyle sees his mate Lindy on the streets, he saves her from a dangerous drug dealer and he brings her to his apartment to protect her. Now his only hope is that Lindy will fall in love with him. Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Plot Synopsis
Taglines:
It's what's underneath
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Motion Picture Rating
(MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for language including crude comments, brief violence and some thematic material
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Details
Release Date:
4 March 2011 (USA)
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Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
£553,069
(UK)
(22 April 2011)
Gross:
$27,854,896
(USA)
(13 May 2011)
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Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?
Trivia
When Kyle is talking to Will while he is playing darts, the veins/scarring on his back spell out 'ugly'.
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Goofs
Will refers to a 1954 movie "Devil Girl from Mars," saying that it is about an alien that wanted to abduct teenage girls for breeding stock. The actual movie
Devil Girl from Mars has a female alien abducting men for breeding stock.
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Quotes
Will:
Living hell has it's upside.
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Connections
Version of
Beauty (1981)
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Soundtracks
Boys and Girls
Written by Murray Hauge,
Pixie Lott (as Victoria Lott) and
Phil Thornalley
Performed by
Pixie Lott
Courtesy of Mercury Records Limited / Interscope Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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I wasn't planning on seeing this movie, but after a group of girlfriends convinced me it would be a good chick flick, I caved.
Going into this movie, I haven't read the book, just seen the Disney movie quite a few times. I was expecting this tragic love story, just like the original movie, with plenty of tear-jerking moments, but it just wasn't there, in terms of script and acting.
The plot was rushed, and therefore the audience didn't have enough time to appreciate the story line, even though we all know it like the back of our hands.
Our Beast, Kyle, was more of a brat than a beast, and even after transforming, I was expecting this monster of rage, and he just whined and moaned and was more comedic than anything else.
Lindy, who was our Beauty, really only stood as a placeholder for a gorgeous woman. Vanessa Hudgens is a gorgeous girl, but that's really all she is. Her acting is very flat, with one moment standing out in particular. She's just been told some devastating news over the phone in a conversation that lasts all of 10 seconds. Acting 101: Acting is the reality of doing, she just pretended, and there's no two ways about it. I didn't see a role model to young girls in her, I just saw a pretty face.
However, there were some exceptions, Neil Patrick Harris was impeccable with his comedic timing, and really saved this movie from otherwise getting a 1 star. Mary Kate Olsen also pleasantly surprised me, as she was good at convincing me she was this evil enchantress. However, for her entire time in the movie, she looks like a haute couture model rather than this disgusting ugly creature.
Overall, it's not terrible, just not that good. Neil Patrick Harris is reason enough alone to see this movie, and to get a look into what some consider "21st Century Beauty and the Beast."