A tale of vanity set in the modern world, when a promising young socialite is transformed into a scarred and tattooed monster until he can get someone to love him and break the spell.
Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is one of the beautiful people. He is handsome, smart, has a rich dad, and can pretty much do what he wants. Until one day when he chooses to tease the class freak (Mary-Kate Olsen) one too many times, and she ends up putting the aforementioned curse upon him. Now he has until spring to make someone utter the words “I love you”, or he will be stuck like this forever. Having been abandoned by his dad (who seems to believe in the power of beauty a bit too much), Kyle has to rely on the help of his blind tutor and foreign maid, in order to find true love.
It isn’t too long before Kyle is on the trail of a hopeful, luckily for him, a kooky chick at his school (Vanessa Hudgens) kind of had the hots for him before the transformation, and doesn’t seem too put off by it afterward…But will he be able to break the spell before spring?
A modern day Beauty And The Beast, this is like a made-for-kids-TV film, one that fails to put in any effort at being innovative or original, and instead settles with the same old rehashed themes. By the time you have been beaten over the head with “beauty is only skin deep” a billion times, you will start rooting for some shooting. Also, Kyle is apparently transformed into something “ugly” by giving him scars and tattoos? I though girls dug those things?
This film is quite beastly throughout: a shocking script and terrifying acting make it one of the scariest things I have seen for a while! Avoid.
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