where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX
when: Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
show: 5:25 p.m.
costs: $11.00 Ticket + $2.00 small Popcorn ( All-Day Tuesday Discount Special on Small Popcorn ) + $4.75 Zero Sprite + $13.31 dinner at Hometown Buffet ( + $1.00 Tip ) = $32.06
auditorium: 4
seat: 4th row, 5th seat
synopsis/overview: Beauty is in the eye of the Beholden
A vain and shallow high school hunk, Kyle Kingson ( Alex Pettyfer ), is turned into an ugly freak of nature by a student witch, Kendra ( Mary-Kate Olsen ), who he was foolish enough to insult. Now, he has just a year to find somebody to love him just the way he is or stay cursed for the remainder of his life.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Green Committee Election Day; 2.) Posters; 3.) "People like people who look good"; 4.) White rose; 5.) "'Best embrace the 'suck'"; 6.) The curse; 7.) "Do you believe in magic"; 8.) Alone and abandoned; 9.) Will ( Neil Patrick Harris ), the blind tutor; 10.) "There's a hole in the heart"; 11.) Halloween party; 12.) "Chicks dig blind guys"; 13.) "It's about how I look at myself"; 14.) Delete; 15.) "Baby steps"; 16.) Homeless people; 17.) Drug dealers; 18.) "Hunter, not Kyle"; 19.) Appeasement presents; 20.) "I didn't want to freak you out"; 21.) Greenhouse; 22.) Korean TV show; 23.) "I've seen worst"; 24.) "The man I know you to be"; 25.) "Having a Coke with you"; 26.) "I need more time"; 27.) "'Just some guy from my old school"; 28.) Zoo; 29.) "'Feels like I've known you forever"; 30.) 'Phone text; 31.) Lake cottage; 32.) "You're a good friend"; 33.) The letter; 34.) Voice mail; 35.) High school Machu Picchu trip; 36.) The wink; 37.) Ring tone; 38.) "... dream, right"; 39.) The new intern; and 40.) Vacation snapshots during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: Some people in the audience liked it enough to give it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked it enough even though it has some logic holes. This movie is aimed at teen-age girls who are really into Chick Flicks.
spoiler alert! Heck, Kyle could wear a burqa in the daytime and dress like a ninja at night--problem solved! Or Kyle's father, Rob Kingson ( Peter Krause ), who's in showbiz, could hire a Hollywood SFX make-up artist to make him natural-looking again. Or Kyle could just go with it and start his own "signature look" juvenile delinquent gang. So, pampered Kyle all of a sudden has the guts and the attitude to just walk up to someone with a gun! Who does he think he is, the "unmasked" crime-fighting superhero? I guess Kyle never heard of Asian mail-order brides who are willing to marry him simply because they "love" him. Ha, ha, ha. Lindy Taylor ( Vanessa Hudgens ) lives in a tenement in a bad part of town with a father who can't even afford to "finance" his own drug addiction and yet, somehow, she can afford to go to a fancy high school that organizes field trips to foreign countries? Hah! You call that a "cottage"? And since she didn't go to school for many months, shouldn't she have been suspended from participating in curricular and extra-curricular activities and/or expelled from school altogether? Doesn't that school have a truant officer in charge of investigating abrupt and/or extended absences from school? Hell, I come across girls who say, "I love you," casually to their family, friends, acquaintances, and even to strangers all the time! If I were Lindy, I would have asked, "Kyle, why are you dressed exactly like Hunter for, and have the same exact height and the same exact built?" Kendra is not a witch, she's a freakin' miracle worker!
fyi: I saw this TV documentary once about a blind waitress. Whenever she had to serve drinks, she would stick a finger in the glass so she'd know when to stop pouring. Blind or not, that was kind of unsanitary.
I know of this beautiful courtesy clerk, a Denise Richards look-alike, who came back into the store with a worried look on her face. When I asked her what the matter was, she said that the young woman that she did a carry-out service for told her, "I love you." I, and the female checker next to me, assured her that the woman didn't mean anything "sexual" by it. So, the courtesy clerk said to the checker, "I love you." The checker laughed. And I wanted to ask her, What about me ...? But I just turned and walked away before I could say anything that might be misconstrued by either one of them and land me in a heap of trouble.
word of advice: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
"Cage the rage." Will, the blind tutor
tidbits: This movie ranked itself at number three at the box office even though it's in a limited run. So, I decided to see it just out of curiosity.
After the movie, I went to the Fairfield Safeway store to buy some broccoli bunches and some Fuji apples.
Then, I went to Hometown Buffet for dinner because I haven't been to that restaurant in so long.
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