To the fans of Beautiful Creatures, making the first book into movie was an exciting event. The hopes for this action packed, love story were high, but which was better. The Book or The movie?

In the book, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margret Stohl, Readers Fall in love with the way Lena Duchannes and Ethan Wate, the main characters, open completely up to each other no matter what challenge comes to meet them. And believe me, there are many, many challenges.

Ethan and Lena go through a whirl wind of fights, changes, and surprises that never fail to pop up at the time when the couple thinks the coast is finally clear. Between Ethan finding out what Lena’s deep dark secret to the outrageous fights, where someone both Ethan and Lena love dies brutally in, readers can never truly put this book down.

The movie, on the other hand, can certainly be passed up in my opinion. If you have read the book, you can easily pick out many important facts that are left out of the plot line making it hard, for the people you haven’t read the book to understand what is really going on.

Another con to this remake is that some important parts of the book are changed. Amma, Ethan’s nanny, is the Keeper in this movie but in the book it’s his mother. This is important because it’s the whole reason why Ethan’s mother is murdered. The directors also put many parts from the second and third book that hadn’t happened thus far making it confusing for even the biggest fan to understand what was happening.

Besides from the big mistakes the movie, the story provided by the book wasn’t that badly written. The actors; Jeremy Irons, who plays Ethan, and Emma Thompson, who plays Lena’s mother Sarafine, weren’t well picked and their fake southern accents could get under anyone’s skin but the story line was mostly on target, keeping the significant action scenes exciting. Ridley,Lena’s cousin, is a more in-depth character than in the book and personally making me like her more than before.

Those small details are what made this movie bearable.

 The Book was far better than the movie. Critics at RottenTomatoes.com, have some reviews the support this. Peter Travers, from the Rolling Stone, states “As supernatural types, Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson overact so strenuously and with such outrageously awful southern accents that you fear that damage this crock may do to their reputations.” He states it’s perfectly; this movie is nothing that fans hoped it would be, letting us all down.

Another is by Ben Kendrick, from ScreenRant. Kendrick thinks “for a film about love and witches, Beautiful Creatures is a pointless experience, surprisingly devoid of actual movie magic.” These quotes just go to show that this movie is mediocre at best and it is really a boring, wanna be Twilight movie that had okay special effects and in no way good acting.

I would give this Beautiful Creatures Movie 4 stars  out of 10 because of its inaccuracies and the fact that the acting in it was just plain horrible. But I would give the original book a high 11 stars out of 10. It was an amazing fantasy, love story, and a thriller that really made me want to keep reading until the book was over. The rest of the series gives you the same feeling of really being in Gatlin, the setting of the book, with Lena and Ethan.

I highly recommend this series to anybody who loves to read and is into a more supernatural kind of book, but I would never recommend the movie, it is a waste of a trip and a waste of time.