Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not as bad as the critics say

I am going to say that I'm a sap. I also did not read the book before seeing Beastly. If you take the movie for what it is, it's actually quite good. I don't spend my time hung up on plausibility and what the book says. It's not high brow it's mindless entertainment.The actors were pretty good. Alex Pettyfer has raw talent. It would be interesting to see how his career will turn out as he matures. Story reminds me of Beauty and the Beast. They should have given more time for character development. For instance Lindy's father was barely seen.I do think the alternate ending was better than what they ultimately used but again, we're dealing with continuity issues with the second ending because the bad guy showed up from nowhere. If they expanded the time for the movie maybe it would work.Anyway for the price of this movie, it's worth it.