Beastly (movie)

Well, seeing as how I actually READ the book before seeing the movie, I give this TWO THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!

"Beauty and the beast" is a wonderful story about a person who has given up on finding someone to accept them as they are who finds another person who feels that no one understands them, and it turns out that they understand each other perfectly. They are able to live anther own kittle world where nobody judges them based on their looks. The book Beastly does a great job of bringing this story into this century and really getting the point of the story across.

The movie, however, does not.

SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE BOOK AND MOVIE COMING UP!

See, in the book, Kyle has two years to find someone to love him for who he is, and during the first year he is sure that this will never happen. During that time, he develops an interest in roses and reading, and builds himself a greenhouse for his roses. This greenhouse ends up being something he feels very protective of, and he loves his roses with a passion.

In the movie, he builds the greenhouse to impress Lindy, once he figures out that SHE likes roses. Also, he has no interest in reading for the sake of reading a good book or poem-he admits to googling "modern poetry, impress girls". Again, he only does it to impress Lindy.

In the book, he gets a magic mirror from the witch as his window to the outside world, and spends time checking up on his old classmates by saying their names to the magic mirror, which is how he stumbles across lindy.

In the movie, he remembers that he met her at a dance and starts creeping around outside her window. There is no magic mirror.

In the book, Lindy's dad breaks into kyle's greenhouse, really pissing Kyle off, and he offers Kyle his daughter in exchange for not killing him or turning him in for drug possession. Kyle wonders "what kind of person would ade his own daughter away like that?" and accepts just because he's afraid that the dad will do the same thing in the future, but this time he will be trading his daughter to a dangerous person instead of him, whom he knows she will be safe with.

In the movie, kyle asks the dad for the daughter. And the dad says no at first, but Kyle insists.

In the book, kyle is an actual BEAST, with claws and fur and fangs and stuff.

In the movie, he just has some freaky tattoos and scars. He could pass for a scary emo/punk dude if he had some piercings. .

the highlight of the entire movie was NEIL PATRICK HARRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fun fact: in the movie he plays a blind character, and so he got opaque contact lenses so that he ACTUALLY COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING while he was playing his character!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that!!!!!!!!!!!!
And he was, by far, my favorite character in the movie. I wish this movie had a lot more Neil Patrick Harris!!!!!!!!

Anyway. If you're curious, like I was, if this movie is worth watching, go right ahead and watch it. Just please, in the name of all this is good in this twisted, twisted world, READ THE BOOK FIRST. it's SO MUCH better!!!!!!!!