(rated R, 86 mins) When Petula (Rachel Weisz) is beaten outside of (Tom Mannion) her boyfriend’s car, Dorothy (Susan Lynch) comes to the rescue. Suddenly the two women have more in common then they thought. For starters, they both have really rotten taste in boyfriends. Dorothy’s man, Tony (Iain Glenn) is just as dangerous harming Dorothy’s faithful dog in the middle of their lover spats over foolish issues like “Where’s my golf clubs?” When one of the revenge schemes go wrong, the two panicked women hatch a scheme to convince Brian’s menacing older brother Ronnie (Maurice Roeves) that he had been kidnapped. There’s no sympathy for these ditzy women who almost come off deserving what they get (they keep going back for more) and there’s certainly no interest in their men who abuse animals, shoot drugs, shoot people and beat their women. Beautiful Creatures is about creatures alright. Ugly ones.
