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By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (32)



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There’s something ugly in this trailer, and it ain’t the “beast.”

I don’t know what Neil Patrick Harris is doing here. I don’t know if he’s behind on the vig, or if someone’s got compromising pictures of him, or if he’s in some demonic thrall, but he has no place in movies starring Vanessa Hudgens. Frankly, I’m mad at NPH, because if he wasn’t in this, I never would have bothered watching the trailer. I certainly wouldn’t have bothered to post it.

Actually, that’s not true. I would have posted it just to hurt you all. But I wouldn’t have watched it.

Anyway, here’s the trailer for Beastly, a teenified, crapified take on Beauty and the Beast starring the chick from High School Musical that showed her cooter, the skull-faced Olsen twin, NPH, and some blond tool who will never amount to anything. It’s directed by someone who deserves to be buried in fire ants and stampeded by rabid cattle.

Watch it anyway, because NPH is in it and because you love the sweet, sweet torment.









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Comments

No, anything but facial tattoos, some piercings, and a few small and attractive scars that don't fundamentally deform the basic structure of his face at all and could be largely concealed with a bit of make-up and a wig! NOOOO! Hideous! Aaaagh!

Sorry, I have this reaction a lot when Hollywood tries to portray "ugly" people. It's adorable.

Posted by: Nat Kittyface at December 6, 2010 9:52 AM

I cannot begin to describe how bad this movie looks, so I won't..

BUT, NPH WTF WHY??

Posted by: lauwer at December 6, 2010 9:56 AM

This trailer makes me want to go see Yogi Bear and Gulliver's Travels followed by an Ashton Kutcher marathon. I think it would less painful.

Posted by: Paultera at December 6, 2010 10:00 AM

This? Will make beeeellions and beeellions of dollars.

Posted by: , at December 6, 2010 10:02 AM

Oh dear lord.

And I suspect that , is correct. This movie will be popular--with the teens and tweens.

Posted by: tamatha at December 6, 2010 10:09 AM

Didn't this get shelved because it was supposed to open the same weekend as Charlie St. Cloud. Surely it can't be any worse than that, right? RIGHT?

Fairy tale remakes: you're doing them wrong, Hollywood.

Posted by: Robert at December 6, 2010 10:12 AM

Gee after that glowing introduction I passed on the trailer.

I've seen and smelled shit before I dont need to relive the experience.

Posted by: logan at December 6, 2010 10:12 AM

This looks old. I remember it from ages ago.

Posted by: BWeaves at December 6, 2010 10:20 AM

I'd like to know how he explains his ridiculous tattoos. "Hey, I'm really ugly and down about it... maybe I shouldn't have done this to myself."

This definitely feels targeted toward the Twilight crowd.

Posted by: Melissa at December 6, 2010 10:20 AM

He's a rich, powerful, intelligent, and good-looking asshole. But it's taking away the good-looking that inspires a character change, because it is targeted at an audience that can't imagine being rich and powerful as being negative influences, and can't imagine being stupid as a sacrifice.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at December 6, 2010 10:28 AM

This does look awful but don't write off the "blond tool" just yet. I think Alex Pettyfer has real potential beyond the extreme pretty.

Posted by: Abby at December 6, 2010 10:31 AM

Isn't this like a remake of some old disney movie??Or maybe even Phanthom of the opera... cause I'm having a deja-vu

Posted by: Anonzin at December 6, 2010 10:32 AM

Wow. I wonder how this will end.

Posted by: nix at December 6, 2010 10:46 AM

Bernie Ecclestone is the president and CEO of Formula One racing. He is rich and powerful and, likely, arrogant, because those things tend to go together. (Arrogant enough to be walking around London with $300,000 in jewelry on him after complaining to the London cops about crime in the city.) Karma being what it is, he got robbed the other day, on the streets of London, of the $300,00 in jewelry.

He's also 80 years old and looks like what Andy Warhol would have looked like if he'd lived to be 80 and survived a tragically disfiguring house fire.

Bernie looks like this:

sports.yahoo.com/nascar/blog/from_the_marbles/post/F1-boss-Bernie-Ecclestone-robbed-outside-of-offi?urn=nascar-289550

Bernie has a Brazilian girlfriend 50 years younger than he is, and she is ... well, she looks like this:

www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrity/photos/fabiana-flosi.htm

Not bad, huh? And Brazilian! That's worth 100 bonus points for some reason, isn't it, Tom Brady?

I know, I know, when you're a teenager looks are everything. EVERYthing. A tiny pimple is a major disaster, a reason to consider suicide (or at least to keep the bajillion-dollar makeup industry afloat). So it's extremely easy for anyone under 18 to fall for the fiction that if you lose your looks, even ever so slightly, your life is no longer worth living. (Though I imagine goth girls would be all over a kid tattooed up like that.) Which is why this movie will make a fortune, it ties very effectively into most teens' greatest fear.

But I digress.

Point being (and I'm taking damn long enough to make it) that in the real world, if you're rich and powerful and arrogant to begin with, you can always score some primo tail, and maybe love, too, or some semblance of it. No matter what you look like.

If you're a guy.

If you're a girl, your life really IS over, and you can go ahead and take that arsenic pill now.

Posted by: , at December 6, 2010 10:51 AM

the skull-faced Olsen twin,

That.... doesn't really narrow it down, Teek.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at December 6, 2010 11:20 AM

New content please. This trailer has already been up on this site. Has TK been replaced by cyborg TK and cyborg TK has no recollection of this shite already wiping it's ass on this website once before?

Posted by: PissBoy at December 6, 2010 12:06 PM

Why is he carrying her around so much in the trailer? Is that supposed to convey tenderness? I think not. I think it's just creepy.

Also, what the fuck is NPH's role in this flick? I don't get it. I don't get SO MUCH of it.

Posted by: Vonnegut Slut at December 6, 2010 12:47 PM

This bitch must be the laughingstock of the witching community for turning this guy into a *gasp* BUTTERFACE!!! How will he ever find a girl with all those tattoos and piercings? What woman could look past his "hideous" face to enjoy his toned body and immense bank account? Will he EVER find love???

Ridiculous. At least the original Beast was actually transformed into a giant, hairy, snarling, musky animal. This Disneyfied jerkoff can visit the nearest Goth club and he'll be covered in ripped fishnets and pasty white flesh in no time.

Posted by: Kballs at December 6, 2010 12:53 PM

This would be a totally worthwhile movie if at the end, when he transforms back to blond pretty-boy, the girl says to him "What the fuck happened to all the cool ink?" and leaves him.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at December 6, 2010 1:01 PM

I hope they both die, or get the herp.

Posted by: TWoP_Fan at December 6, 2010 1:04 PM

The book was okay but this shit is painful. Besides the girl was supposed to be a plain Jane not fucking pretty.

Posted by: Aaliyah at December 6, 2010 1:21 PM

I'm I the only one who found him much more physically appealing after the ugly curse?

Posted by: Rest In Peace at December 6, 2010 1:21 PM

*Am*

Allow myself to introduce... myself...

Posted by: Rest In Peace at December 6, 2010 1:22 PM

He looks like the guys I used to date. I'm not seeing the plot conflict.

Also, this movie looks fucking stupid.

Posted by: MyySharona at December 6, 2010 1:22 PM

This movie looks fucking stupid, indeed. It's going to be one of these movies that I'm going to rent, just for the fun of it, and watch with my sister (who is hilarious on a daily basis) while getting drunk - it'll be awwwwesome.

Also, the book was even worse. Yes, there's a book, and I have read it, and it was crap.

Posted by: Rooks at December 6, 2010 1:29 PM

So, I would be a terrible addition to this movie.

I'd bang him. Even if he wasn't filthy goddamn rich. But now that know he's filthy goddamn rich, I'll cut a bitch to get to him. And the skull faced Olsen twin? We'll invite that troll over to dinner, where I'll gently explain that crimping irons are for children to play with, not for grown-ups. NPH's blind ass can play darts in the corner, and no one would have to make a birdhouse on the roof or whatever, because I would have no time for horticulture/avian husbandry because I'd be constantly occupied with either banging my disfigured millionaire or slathering myself in honey and rolling around in piles of his money, then dashing thru the streets covered in honey and $20 bills to scare innocent passerby.

Credits.

Posted by: The Gay at December 6, 2010 2:53 PM

'I'm going to build her a greenhouse.'

Amazing

Posted by: ash at December 6, 2010 5:05 PM

i love mocking celebrities, usually pretty ruthlessly, but can we call a moratorium on making "skull-faced" jokes about a person who had to go through in-patient treatment for anorexia? can't we just make jokes about homeless chic, new york minute, dropping out of college after one semester, etc? there's plenty of other material.

Posted by: atinymachine at December 6, 2010 6:03 PM

I hate to admit this, but I read this book. And in the book the kid is supposed to look like the beast in beauty and the beast. Hairy and claws, etc. NPH's character is a tutor his father hires for him because he is embarrassed by his son. He's blind so, he can't see him, ergo, the beast kid befriends him. The girl part of the story was like 2 seconds of the book and it wasn't really that lame. There are some funny chats between the beast kid and some other kids who were put under spells. It was a pretty quick, mindless read. I am a fan of Beauty and the Beast and the revamps. In fact, I think that this author's books were reviewed on this site which is why I read it. Anywhoodle, that's the gist.

Posted by: lyricalcatt at December 6, 2010 7:59 PM

From trailer: "CBS Films"

Well there's your problem.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at December 6, 2010 8:42 PM

Twilight has so much to pay for...

Posted by: megaera at December 7, 2010 6:09 AM

She's really in to roses.

Whaaaaat? so stupid. That's like saying she's really in to kittens. Or she's really in to chocolate. Nobody is in to roses, they're just nice to look at.

Or, yeah, there are people who are in to roses, but they are middle-aged British dudes. Not doe-eyed brunettes.

Posted by: marya at December 7, 2010 9:13 AM