Beastly

Drama
2.5 stars
Sappy and strange – only for diehard romantics. Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) stars as a popular, conceited jerk in high school who becomes hexed by a witch (Mary Kate Olsen) to look horribly scarred and tattooed and will stay that way permanently unless he finds someone to love him within a year (Vanessa Hudgins). I liked the whole idea of the witch and Beauty & The Beast theme, but whole the wooing process was odd. The highlight of the film was Neil Patrick Harris as a blind man hired to privately tutor the title character. Lisa Gay Hamilton (“The Practice”, “Men of a Certain Age”) was very sweet as Pettyfer’s maid from Jamaica. As I said, only for diehard romantics.