Moments before his transformation, Kyle made friends with a cute fellow student, Lindy ( High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens), who likes him despite his obnoxious attitude toward everyone, especially women. (For that matter, Kendra, whom Kyle derides as a “Frankenskank,” looks pretty hot for a bottle-blond goth.) As a matter of fact, he is much more interesting in his new incarnation with exotic tattoos and razor cuts all over his bald head and body, looking like a rapper crossed with an NBA superstar. Oh, where to begin even at this juncture with the miscalculations? Most obviously, Kyle is never made into a beast. His immediate response is to go into hiding in a luxury condo-hideout provided by his father ( Peter Krause) who, as a narcissistic broadcast journalist, shares his son’s distaste for unattractive people so can’t wait to eliminate his son from his life. He has a year to find a girl who will say “I love you” to his unlovely face or he will be forever beastly. An incredibly shallow though popular narcissist, Manhattan prep-school senior Kyle ( Alex Pettyfer, the young British actor who following last month’s I Am Number Four is not enjoying a good introduction to movie audiences), gets turned into a “beast” by a witchy fellow student, Kendra ( Mary-Kate Olsen). The adaptation of Alex Flinn’s novel by writer-director Daniel Barnz ( Phoebe in Wonderland) flatters itself that this is a modern update on the Beauty and the Beast legend.
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