Beautiful Creatures Trailer (2013)

Cast: Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Rossum, Viola Davis, Alice Englert

Description: A supernatural love story set in the South, "Beautiful Creatures" tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese ("The Fisher King," "P.S. I Love You") directs from his adaptation of the first novel in the best-selling series by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. The film stars Alden Ehrenreich ("Tetro"), newcomer Alice Englert, Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons ("Reversal of Fortune") Oscar nominee Viola Davis ("The Help," "Doubt"), Emmy Rossum (TV's "Shameless") and Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson ("Howard's End," "Sense and Sensibility").

Release Date: 2/14/2013

Genre: Drama

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Offical Website: http://www.beautifulcreaturesmovie.com

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	2/14/2013
Germany	Theatrical Wide Release	4/4/2013
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	5/21/2013

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02/18 @ 12:00 AM

'Beautiful Creatures' is stylish, campy fun at times.

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

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02/14 @ 12:00 AM

The movie is claimed ... by narrative incoherence, Tim Burton-envy and the usual demons of digital effects.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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.

Joel Arnold, NPR

A dash -- only a dash -- of Tim Burton ghoulishness might have helped.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

This fantasy about witches and warlocks walking among us was clearly produced for the Twilight crowd, but a witty script and the enjoyably hammy performances from Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons broaden its appeal.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

Beautiful Creatures rests entirely upon the shoulders of leads. And in that sense, it completely works.

Laremy Legel, Film.com

As supernatural types, Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson overact so strenuously and with such outrageously awful Southern accents that you fear the damage this crock may do to their reputations.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Within the needlessly complicated script and CGI special-effects overkill, there are some promising moments.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Beautiful Creatures is good fun and I want to know what happens next for Lena the teenaged witch.

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine

A clear bid to ignite a franchise capable of filling the hole left in teenage hearts by the end of the Twilight saga.

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

The original young-adult book had even more going on, but filmmaker Richard LaGravenese has tried to simplify it. Even so, the movie's mythology seems confused if not outright contradictory.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

If only we could hope that Beautiful Creatures would stick to a single film or a maximum of one sequel, before its modest charms wear out.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

...a new vision of witchery that is more playful, coherent and intelligent. If you're thinking a deep-fried, more hormonally charged Harry Potter, that's not it, but it's close to the intention at least.

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies

Beautiful Creatures tries terribly hard to establish its own mythology of magic and witchcraft and Southern-fried adolescent angst.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

A movie so schizoid in its extremes of pleasure and pain that it's hard to know how to weigh its contradictions, or even where to begin separating them.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

In the end, Beautiful Creatures is lacking in the one element it most needs: magic.

Tom Long, Detroit News

The comedy defuses and deflates the drama, frustrating those who would be swept away by belief.

Kyle Smith, New York Post

This is silly stuff, but powerful all the same.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

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02/13 @ 12:00 AM

You want this star-crossed couple to stick together, come what may - and that's rare enough at the movies.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

A strong cast of likable and, yes, beautiful actors can only do so much with the formula in which they're forced to work.

Christy Lemire, Associated Press

It's first and foremost a semi-plodding teen romance with supernatural overtones.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

The weaknesses of Beautiful Creatures ultimately outweigh the strengths but the conviction of the central relationship is good enough to keep things from becoming laughably bad, even if it all comes apart toward the end.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews

I kind of dug Beautiful Creatures, even if I, like most of you, am ready to drive a stake into the entire My boyfriend/girlfriend is a vampire/werewolf/alien/zombie/Sasquatch genre.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Empowerment and powerlessness become entangled in a coming-of-age myth that could prove appealing to young women for many sequels to come.

Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic

It lacks danger and momentum. The audience, like Ethan, spends way too much time waiting around for Lena to learn whether she's a good girl or a bad girl.

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

More laughs are expected in the next two installments of what threatens to become a trilogy. It's early, but I'm already making plans to be out of town.

Rex Reed, New York Observer

While it's never quite as spellbinding as its witchcraft-themed story line promises, Beautiful Creatures is a welcome addition to the ranks of paranormal teen romance.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Plays like a funnier, edgier, Southern-gothic knockoff of the Twilight universe, with a distinct liberal-secular sensibility and without the virginal sexuality, po-faced seriousness or undertones of Christianity.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

There's not much new under the moon here, which makes what the writer and director Richard LaGravenese does with the story all the more notable.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

In the end, Beautiful Creatures has one overarching problem: It's boring.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

This romp into the occult has a potent sense of humor. That comic edge and strong dialogue raises the movie's quality over most teen romances.

Claudia Puig, USA Today

Irons and Thompson, whose Oscars aren't likely to get any company for their supporting turns here, at least bring the zest generally lacking from writer-director Richard LaGravenese's dutiful adaptation.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma - three words not typically associated with teen romances.

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

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02/12 @ 12:00 AM

Its primness aside, the movie is terrific fun and much more affecting than Twilight or Supernatural.

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice