Page 6 March 2013 Adaptations inspire hope for movies aimed at teenagers Recently, two young adult books have been made into movies: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion. After seeing both fi lm adaptations, new hope for movies aimed at teens has risen. Beautiful Creatures Director: Richard LaGravenese Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson Too much fl ash covers up the sincerely decent story in Beautiful Creatures . Ethan Whate (Ehrenreich) wants nothing more than to go to college and get as far away from his small Southern town as possible. Lena Duchannes (Englert) transfers to Ethan’s high school after moving in with the town’s owner, Macon Ravenwood (Irons), who is also her uncle. Despite the many rumors about her family among the town’s residents, Ethan is determined to get to know her better, and they soon become friends and more. However, evil forces are stirring, and it only gets darker as Ethan and Lena delve into the past of their families and the town itself. The plot is founded on magic, as Lena and her family are Castors, and the struggle between good and evil ensues. But while the visual effects of the movie are wonderful to watch, it’s the story the audience should remember most. Lena is a real heroine, the likes of which are hard to come by in popular young adult fi ction these days. She’s strong, but more importantly she’s intelligent. To not ruin the ending, all that can be said is there should be more strong teen girls like her in books and movies. Ethan, on the other hand, is more of a stereotype than he would like to believe. He’s a likeable guy, without a doubt, but can go over the number of cliché lines and actions acceptable to consider him a truly original male character. The side characters provide the best acting in this movie. Lena’s aloof-but-protective uncle is a standard idea, yet Irons manages to work with the rather short amount of screen time he has to make you care about him. Emma Thompson gives the best performance of the fi lm as the villain, Sara fi ne, about whom not a lot can be said without giving away spoilers. Overall, Beautiful Creatures could have done better with fewer special effects, but the story pulls it through and gains it three and a half stars. Warm Bodies Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry and John Malkovich Witty and funny, Warm Bodies is a surprisingly charming fi lm. “R” (Hoult) is an unusually insightful zombie shuf fl ing around this post- apocalyptic Earth. When he saves Julie (Palmer) from being devoured by others of his kind, he is strangely attracted to her and fi nds himself slowly becoming more human. The couple is threatened on both sides by the “Boney” zombies too far gone to reason with, and the city of survivors led by Julie’s father (Malkovich) who are nearly as bad. R and Julie, a clever play on Romeo and Juliet, have the potential to change the world, as they know it. Hoult is brilliant as the movie’s zombie narrator, and R draws many laughs from the audience. R and his best friend “M” (Corddry) get some of the best lines of dialogue, which is surprising considering they’re dead. The writing is clever, and the effects weren’t overdone. The movie doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously, which de fi nitely helps make such an absurd sounding plotline work as well as it does. Don’t rely on the trailers to decide whether or not to see this fi lm, because they don’t do it justice. Also, refrain from comparing it to certain other stories of romance between the living and the dead. The differences are clear enough, and this one is far more worthwhile. 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