Keith Uhlich Time Out Aug 4, 2023 1/5

You go, Doog!

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Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Oct 6, 2022

Beastly does not aspire to compete with its prestigious ancestors, rather it aims to entertain the young women its catered to. [Full review in Spanish]

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Jan 31, 2021 2/5

Good messages in an uneven movie that has some very effective moments early on but gets more ridiculous as the credits approach.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 2, 2020 2.0/4.0

Beastly is made precisely for those people who will enter the movie theater not 100% sure that the film is a retelling of the "Beauty & The Beast" storyline.

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Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Jul 13, 2020 C

The story is so contrived it's almost physically painful. Everything is laughably bad, everything. But somewhere along the line, I found myself emotionally invested in this syrupy nonsense on the screen.

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Leslie Combemale Cinema Siren Jul 26, 2019

It really isn't quite that awful. It's just beastly.

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Jo Berry The National (UAE) Nov 21, 2017 1/5

Aimed squarely at Twilight's teenage fans, this is about as subtle as a baseball bat to the head and only marginally more enjoyable.

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Sarah Marrs Cinesnark Oct 24, 2017

Beastly isn't good but it's not nearly as awful as I expected.

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Amy Curtis We Got This Covered Jun 2, 2013 6/10

So this isn't a great re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, but Beastly does have mass tweener appeal.

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Jason Best Movie Talk Aug 31, 2011

Daniel Barnz's movie certainly doesn't have any inner depth behind its slick surface, but Neil Patrick Harris's nifty wisecracks, Mary-Kate Olsen's spooky glares and the brisk pacing means that Beastly isn't quite as hideous as you might imagine

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Mayer Nissim Digital Spy Jul 14, 2011 3/5

Hudgens is a likeable on-screen presence, Olsen a complete riot, and Pettyfer teases teeny bits of a performance as a genuinely unpleasant baddie that could be the making of him one day, should the right script come along.

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Grae Drake Movies.com Jun 3, 2011 1/5

Beauty and the blech.

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Glenn Lovell CinemaDope May 4, 2011 1/4

... tone deaf (do students today really say "hurl chunks" and "Too cool for school"?), predictably plotted, filled with drippy love songs that would embarrass Bryan Ferry.

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Brian Gibson Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) Apr 25, 2011

Some snappy pacing and hints of pain throbbing beneath the cool sarcasm of teens push much of Beastly past its skin-deep pandering to a teen demographic. Still, this 21st-century fairy tale doesn't wilt, but it's not quite refreshed, either.

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Alistair Harkness Scotsman Apr 25, 2011 1/5

It's basically programming a generation of young girls to yield to the will of a patriarchal society and grow up to become biddable Stepford Wives. This evil must be stopped.

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Robbie Collin News of the World Apr 24, 2011 1/5

Beauty And The Beast except with the lusty, gothic menace that makes that story interesting replaced by moany teenagers and crap acoustic guitar music. Or, in short, Dawson's Freak.

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Catherine Jones Liverpool Echo Apr 22, 2011

Undermines its central message about substance over style by sacrificing characterisation for glossy visuals.

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David Edwards Daily Mirror (UK) Apr 22, 2011 1/5

Beastly doesn't quite cover it. Not even monstrous, gruesome or grotesque come close.

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Shaun Munro What Culture Apr 22, 2011 2/5

It's not nearly as bad as you've probably heard, thanks to a mercifully short running time and decent performances throughout, but a sloppy script denies Beastly the hormone-infused gravitas it desperately needs.

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Graham Young Birmingham Post Apr 20, 2011 2/5

Beastly has some groan-inducing lines and acting to match.

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