Maybe this is worth 5 stars out of 10, but just something about it makes me leave my rating at 4 stars.The main reason to watch this movie is to gaze at the beauty of Vanessa Hudgens. I guess teen girls will enjoy looking at the male star.This isn't really all that bad of a movie - but it's just so simplistic and obvious and it's been done many times before - and better.I really do feel this is geared towards 12 to 15 year old kids - and not particularly smart ones. Not that that's a bad thing.But many of the rest of us will be naggingly unsatisfied by this pablum.

READ the book! Much better! Don't waste your time on this garbage

I didn't like this movie at all. There's one cliché following the other. The characters are boring and walking clichés. The good looking guy who is convinced that you can only achieve things if you're handsome? Come on, do the filmmakers think teenagers are stupid? I felt like a child who watches some movie in school to learn that good looks aren't everything. But that's not everything. This poor boy has a father who isn't interested in his son but only in his son's looks. When the boy suddenly turns "ugly" his father simply takes him to another apartment. That's so sad! I really felt sorry for myself wasting my time with this movie. The girl on the other hand is perfect. Okay it's "Beauty and the Beast" but if they wanted to make a believable story they should have made the characters way more authentic and the dialogues much better. The dialogues have no content at all and are absolutely ridiculous! I really like the story of "Beauty and the Beast" and am therefore very disappointed of this movie.

Buckeston Academy is an expensive New York High School. Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) is a rich, popular, vain, arrogant student. Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) is the sweet scholarship student Kyle never bothers with. Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a witch and after the latest insult from Kyle, she turns him into a hideous mess. He won't turn back unless someone says 'I love you' within a year. His father Rob (Peter Krause) is shock and sets him up in an apartment. Kyle isolates himself and his father doesn't even visits anymore. Only the maid and a blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris) is left in his life. Kyle starts following his schoolmate Lindy as his possible salvation. He rescues her from a dangerous drug dealer and forces her to stay with him.Kyle is a douche at the start. Even the rescue is tinged with a lot of self interest. The setup and that whole world is one fake construction. It's not fanciful. It's just false. Whereas 'Beauty and the Beast' takes the POV of the beauty, this takes the POV of the beast. It doesn't improve anything. Quite frankly, none of the actors do a good job. There is no chemistry and no passion. It's an interest attempt but a near miss nevertheless.