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Bait and Switch.

posted 8 years ago by mlaiuppa
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This is hardly a "twist" on Beauty and the Beast.

It's mostly a lame romantic comedy. The Beauty is hardly sympathetic and I really don't care if she becomes nice. She certainly doesn't deserve the guy. Her long suffering friend who actually works for a living should be the one to really be rewarded for putting up with such a spoiled brat friend for so many years.

Perhaps it's our current climate but I really don't care about some spoiled rich entitled brat, whether she is punished into becoming a 'better' person or not.

She's not that pretty either.

This has got to be a Hallmark cheapo as I can't imagine anyone else making such drivel.

I gave it three stars and that was being generous.

[–] mathmaniac 8 years ago

I enjoyed it. The lead actors were likeable. It is the first movie I've seen in a while where people weren't humping within the first ten minutes of meeting each other!

A simple story. But a pleasure to watch.

[–] don-249 8 years ago

Working an evening in a shelter serving hot food doesn't cut it. At the end of the movie, she's still a child, albeit one with better manners than before.

It should have ended this way: She goes to China, takes 10 years to learn to speak and write Chinese fluently, returns to hand shovel a path through the snow to her guy, and then teaches him to speak Chinese (remember, he could only read it), showing that she really could apply herself and had something to offer him and society.