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Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures is sort of a Twilight “light” production that never the less has attracted the highly skilled talent of Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson. They take great delight in steeping themselves in evil while masking their natural aristocratic British accents with a genteel southern drawl. They’re also working with some impressive newcomers including Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan Waite who can not wait to get out of the stifling back water town of Gatlin South Carolina, especially now that he’s free from his smothering senior class girlfriend Emily (Zoey Deutch). However his plans for a speedy exodus are waylaid at the beginning of the school term with his attraction to Lena (Alice Englert) the new arrival and literally the girl of his dreams. She may be new to class but her class is not new Gatlin. She’s the niece of Macon Ravenwood (Irons) the towns reclusive old money who is viewed with contempt by this sanctimonious community, especially Mrs Lincoln (Thompson) who petitions to have Lena expelled for witchcraft. Turns out she has a point although Lena prefers the more euphemistic label “Caster” to Witch. Either way she comes by the craft honestly as her immediate family turns out to be a boiling cauldron of necromancers. Ethan and Lena seem to get by all this negativity especially when they discover a mutual bond through an heirloom locket from the civil war. But Lena’s sixteenth birthday could crush their romance because on that day, although she will hopefully be taken by the “Light” odds are more likely that she’ll be lost to the “Dark”. Beautiful Creatures is based on the first novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. We can expect four more but first they have to write them. Although pandering to the coursing pubescent hormones of teenaged girls the first book has been well received. Not only that but the hunky teen protagonist dumps his hot girlfriend for a plainer but infinitely more interesting female. That’s gotta count for something!

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