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Critics Consensus: Charming romantic leads and esteemed supporting cast aside, Beautiful Creatures is a plodding YA novel adaptation that feels watered down for the Twilight set.
Critic Consensus: Charming romantic leads and esteemed supporting cast aside, Beautiful Creatures is a plodding YA novel adaptation that feels watered down for the Twilight set.
All Critics (181) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (85) | Rotten (96) | DVD (1)
Beautiful Creatures is like the Twilight movies but with a chaperone making sure the boys dance a foot apart from the girls.
The problem is tone. LaGravenese lets the English have their heads, while the young Americans moon and kiss and frown like they mean it.
'Beautiful Creatures' is stylish, campy fun at times.
The movie is claimed ... by narrative incoherence, Tim Burton-envy and the usual demons of digital effects.
This surprisingly beguiling attempt to blend fantasy, coming-of-age drama, melodrama, camp and social critique isn't always successful - but it's nearly always entertaining.
A dash -- only a dash -- of Tim Burton ghoulishness might have helped.
For the most part, it's business as usual, as Beautiful Creatures obediently follows the young-adult fiction blueprint.
Beautiful Creatures also has a spiritual side, which will strike some viewers as affecting and others as cheap insurance to draw in audiences who would otherwise eschew a film that shows magic as even a sometimes good thing.
You might think of Beautiful Creatures as just another Twilight wannabe. I prefer to think of it as the showcase that a great British actress has been waiting for.
What does matter is that Beautiful Creatures bristles with a catchy combo of wit, warmth and unworldly urgency that was never to be found in the Twilight movies.
The history that is supposed to hold the lovers in a web of human and supernatural connections owes more to the History Channel than history books. But the film taps into an unexpected understanding of agency.
Though Beautiful Creatures is occasionally simplistic, and definitely goofy, it's also a genuinely compassionate story of what it's like to make your first adult decisions in a world where nothing is black or white.
This teen gothic drama got no love at all in the theatres, and despite its no-name leads, muddled southern accents, and liberties taken from the books (which I haven't read), it's still achingly romantic with equal parts sass, lore, and sacrifice. Ethan, a southern gentleman and scholar, dreams of a life outside Gatlin, SC, but when he falls for the town's new social pariah, Lena, a "caster" who will almost certainly be claimed by the dark side on her eighteenth birthday, he is determined to save her soul through love. Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert's push-and-pull chemistry is remarkably sensual. Ehrenreich really shines as the squinty shucksidoodles Ethan, exhibiting folksy humor and revealing unexpected depth in the scene where Macon hexes him to plot out his disappointment of a future. Emmy Rossum is also a devilish vixen, especially in her claiming scene. Emma Thompson seems utterly out of place, seeming neither southern enough nor glamorous enough.
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Chick flick here!! I am a sucker for romantic stories. This was a surprisingly good one, since I expected a cheap ripoff of the Twilight series. Good acting. Emma Thompson as the evil, and self-amused matriarch, is perfectly cast. Jeremy Irons was wonderful, as usual. I enjoyed this very much...
I strain to recall a movie where the hunky male lead was played by someone less hunky. Still, it was a fun movie with a coherent script and nice special effects.
A gothic romance with supernatural elements thrown in to appease those wretched poor among the sensation-deprived, is lush and kitschy fun (more so with the over-the-top additions of Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons darkly waltzing all over it, the easy English affinity for the Southern dialect nearly lambasted). And as a side note, Dhani Harrison (George's son) provides the interesting soundtrack. Better than the Twilight series it nearly resembles (the teen angst/romance thing) for its acting and characterisations, still the plot loses the uumph it would've needed to push this out of teen drama territory.
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