Disney star Vanessa Hudgens tries to make things hip by starring as the outgoing, prejudice-free teenager Lindy and bringing back the classic “Beauty and the Beast” story of a girl falling madly in love… with a beast. She finds herself hopelessly fallen for an ill-fated, angst-filled high school boy. Kyle Kingston was once beautiful, popular, and funny, but “I am Number Four” actor, Alex Pettyfer, shows his versatility by slapping on some henna tattoos all over his face when he becomes cursed by the evil Mary-Kate Olsen for his attitude. Kyle starts to live in seclusion because he’s too embarrassed by his face, but Lindy doesn’t care. She sees him for what’s inside. “Beastly” is the perfectly cliched movie for all stressed out teenage girls to watch!

The movie takes place in the mind of a wrongly mentally-institutionalized young girl who is free to let her imagination run wild. Its strange scenery looks to be taken place in the mind of a young videogame creator that has star Baby Doll (Emily Browing) and four other women from the asylum planning to escape the facility, but the lines between reality and dream become blurry when the women have to go on missions in their sci-fi fantasy outfits to find the crucial items to escape. The idea was unique, but illy produced. Nice try.

The third installment of the “Transformers” franchise commences with a two and a half hour, bigger, louder, and in no way better battle. This time, Earth’s past comes back to haunt the future, but Optimus does not know if he can handle the fight! In the movie, the historically famous “space race” instead turns out to be about lost Autobot artifacts on the ‘dark side of the moon.’ The all-America hero Sam Witwicky  (Shia LaBeouf) returns to help the Autobots anyway he can. It’s a race to the moon as soon as the Decepticons find out about the ruins, but Optimus can’t let them find out about the artifact’s secrets, and don’t forget to factor in the USA and Russians in the race! Everyone rushes to get to the moon, but don’t worry– the Autobots and Decepticons are still battling on Earth. Though the movie is lack-luster, it does use the 3D to its advantage, so the scenery isn’t too bad; director Michael Bay, however, refuses to turn down the volume.

This shoddily made horror movie turns out to be the funniest movie of the year with its awful plot about beer-guzzling college students on break at a lake house that has suddenly been infested by sharks– but they refuse to get out of the water? They keep giving it chance after chance thinking that the sharks will just give up and leave after they’ve eaten half of the group. This detestable blood-shedding movie stars Sara Paxton from “Aquamarine,” and the only difference in the two the films is that Sara is no longer the queen of the wates. Only two of the awfully knowledgeable students make it out alive– along with their trusty dog.

The thrill this movie packs is quite the ordeal. Having superpowers, constantly moving, being a defender of the Earth AND being a teenager! Don’t worry- John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) has it all under control, and he even courageously adds some spunky high school romance into the mix. The movie is based on the novel “I Am Number Four” by Pittacus Lore (I wonder if that’s his real name…), where John Smith is an alien-killing machine who’s part of a race that only consists of nine people. For some reason, this special race can only be killed in numerical order by aliens– number one was taken care of awhile ago, two was toast, and three was freshly chopped– and John knows he’s next! Johnny handles himself with his homework completed in his back pocket, girl friend by his side, and his super power hands to fight off the aliens. The awfully suspenseful closing scene where everyone come together to fight the aliens goes down in the place teenagers know best– high school! John takes care of all the aliens, unharmed and still beautifully chiseled– and he still manages to have enough loose ends untied for a sequel to come!

“Zookeeper” is part of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison gang, which, given Sandler’s track record, is an obvious hint at the movie’s quality. The film stars the shameless Kevin James as animal-loving zookeeper Griffen Keyes, who finds himself heartbroken at the exact same time he was going to propose to his girlfriend! But because the zoo’s animals can talk, they immediately decide to join together and council Griffen (after Griffen freaks out for a few scenes) on how to get his ex back. Being Kevin James, he won’t pass on any opportunity for relationship help, so he drives around town with gorillas, has bears teach him how to be “sexy,” and performs the essential clumsy moments every dumb comedy needs.

The overdramatic, silly super hero movie of the year stars the handsome Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern. The movie is not written to be funny, but former “James Bond” director, Martin Campbell has Ryan Reynolds in a full glow-in-the-dark, green suit and mask, talking to melted, deformed heads that wear 30 foot robes. The writers are also to be blamed for the ongoing background information and fragmented plot. The scenery makes for a more sy-fy movie than a superhero movie. Just add it to the list of unentertaining, cheesy superhero hero movies in the trash.

What worst movie list of the year wouldn’t be complete with yet another film about cross-dressing “comedians.” Adam Sandler stars opposite himself as twins Jack and Jill Sadelstein. Jack is a successful advertisement man who finds himself stuck with his loud, not-funny twin sister, who overstays her welcome at his home during the holidays. The movie is fully equipped with the disgusting diarrhea scenes and a lovely bunch of ‘funny’ Mexicans. Although Sandler manages to murder the movie with his two parts, there is some dark, unseen humor when Al Pacino stars as himself. But if Al Pacino is the funniest comedian in a movie, a movie cannot be considered a comedy.