"Beautiful Creatures" - Casts a Bewitching Spell

"Twilight" fans, you're left in the dust with your memories, a new day has dawned.  With "Beautiful Creatures," you'll understand what happiness is.  Hooray, a new saga has begun.  On the way out, a dad said to his teenage daughter, "I liked it, I really liked it."  And, so did I.  There was plenty to like in this good vs. evil, h.s. forbidden love with magical powers added to the pot.  Boil, boil, toil and trouble, in the cauldron boil and bake, with the right ingredients you shall make, a very entertaining film for young & old to partake.  The stellular Academy Award winning cast includes Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson & Viola Davis.  The two relatively unknown leads carry the movie & hold their own while pulling on your heartstrings.  Alden Ehrenreich & Alice Englert play h.s. sweethearts; Ethan & Lena .  The movie is set, present day, in a small southern town where book banning & social ostrcism fester along with annual Civil War reenactments.  Ethan feels "unstuck in time," & restless to get out of this hick town where "you're either too stuck to move or too stupid to leave."  Ethan's junior year of h.s. starts with Lena as the new kid who doesn't fit in or play nicely with the other snobby southern belles. But wait, there is more magic than your tired old formulaic voodoo vampire mumbo jumbo. This creole stew has more in the mix, including smart writing, with nuanced & delicious acting that draw you into the movie.  Something wickedly enchanting this way comes.