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[@mightyyoshiyt6772]

oil up Alex

[@elindayana8174]

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ABOUT DISNEY'S "ZAPPED"!!! 😓

[@Cassowaryeatingnoodles]

Hi everyone

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Alex’s farts 💨

[@piegirl8263]

I'm really sick so you did make my day better thank you!

[@justme1220]

I love how them being hot is just them basically putting a gold filter on them

[@mariannaortiz2426]

Technically that's only for a few characters. Tally wanted that and so they gave it to her.

[@YourNewSleepParalysisDemon]

I keep thinking about the extras they pull in to play the background "Uglies". Like, how does that conversation go?

[@justme1220]

@@YourNewSleepParalysisDemon 😂 they go hey you know how you think you’re at least decently attractive, we got a movie for you

[@KimboKG14]

reminded me of xerxes in the 300 movie

[@norahdavis9265]

@@YourNewSleepParalysisDemonthe whole point of the book is that the “uglies” aren’t even ugly they look normal/good the pretties look like uncanny valley/AI like not real kind of outerworldly but in an uncanny way (the movie didn’t do a good job of showing this lol) - their society:gov manipulates them into thinking they’re ugly when they’re literally not so they can do the surgery and they can mind control them basically - so if the casting directors explained the book correctly they shouldn’t be offended because the uglies in the book weren’t ugly 😂

[@nonameless2]

In the book, the "pretties" were kinda described like uncanny valley-esque, like their eyes were made bigger and "flaws" ironed out, but in a way that made them seem like they looked like Bratz dolls in real life. All of them. But the movie just puts them all under a basic snapchat filter and calls it a day

[@AddisonR2909]

they were just like "eh, good enough"

[@PuzzledPsychic]

For Midnighters they'd probably just put a blue filter over the entire screen.

[@luxury_nightmare]

I remember a scene in the books where tally finds a magazine from the old world and thinks that the models are all super ugly. Their standard of beauty is radically different than ours

[@RUFFDRAFTCA]

ah ok that would make more sense... still stupid, but i can see how the movie choices vs the book make it exceptionally ridiculous.

[@kartoonfanatic]

The book also describes the "operation" requires breaking almost every bone in the body and rebuilding that person entirely. Some of the post-op teens sound like they have actual Barbie doll proportions and the last book emphasizes the love interest's anime eyes (which in real life would be horrifying, but in the book it's supposed to make him super dreamy). Given how far CGI and special effects have come this shouldn't be impossible, but then the main character and co would be horrifying to look at, and we can't have that.

[@imeeennam7429]

The funniest thing in this whole movie is that “turning pretty” is just them putting the bold glamour filter on from tiktok

[@jannyjan90]

The best part it this movie THINKS that is the deep message of the movie.. but its so poorly written that it is lost

[@dimitra_sei]

I think they really didn't handle the whole turning pretty thing well. I've seen a lot of people be like "they are not ugly" and "they pretty ones are actually uglier", but the whole point is that they are not ugly, they are just told they are. In their eyes we all would be ugly. There is a scene in the book that has Shay and Tally reading an old fashion magazine from "our time" and they see the models and they are like "is that what people thought was pretty? They are so ugly!". The whole pretty thing was like their face would be perfectly symmetrical after the surgery, hence we are all naturally ugly bc no one has a perfectly symmetrical body. I always thought that the pretties would look scary rather than "pretty"... There is a very beautiful message in this story, I wish the movie was better so we could have seen the whole series.

[@fairycat23]

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[@arieltallen5732]

I really love this (I’ve never read or seen) but it seems like they didn’t find a way to emphasize this for the movie….

[@RiriRuruu]

With only the context of the movie and Alex's review, I thought the premise was so corny and ridiculous, but with the way you describe it makes it sound a lot more interesting. I wished they adapted it better.

[@shift7808]

This is a message that only children should benefit from. Its so insanely basic that one should have concerns if they havent learned these things by 17 or so. it really is a phenomenon how girls get sucked into all this and end up thinking absolutely insane things about themselves and society.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

You mean it's not even about "inner beauty VS outer beauty" ...??? Your comment has taken me from _uncaring_ to *contemptuous.*

[@im_an_oyster]

This movie should've been animated and I'll die on that hill

[@gpzali7728]

Dying right along with you

[@JohnPork-rm6qc]

just like da Minecraft movie

[@marioaustin9312]

Ugly dolls maybe?

[@audreynothepburn7663]

@@JohnPork-rm6qcI was thinking stop motion for some of it

[@AngelicMads]

Omg yea, it would’ve saved them so much time on CGI and not having a lot of creative freedom for the Pretties.

[@elithec00lguy12]

In the book there was never this whole “David is going to blow up the city” conflict. Tally simply went to betray the smoke because they told her if she didn’t then she and her friend would be ugly forever. Her attraction to David despite him being “ugly” is what makes her think about “inner beauty” or whatever and then when she meets his parents her whole perspective changes.

[@tomatosoup4618]

" would be ugly forever" 😂

[@panko213]

Which the only threat to Tally betraying a friend being "if you don't you'll never be pretty" honestly showed way better the societal brainwashing and Tally's personality

[@19Rena96]

@@panko213 but they were brainwashed?

[@messibessi11]

@@19Rena96 ya in every class they ever took they learned that the rusties would fight over looks and that the reason the only people who would get into fights are the uglies because of their human nature being so heavily focused on looks. The books even go into real things like how wars were even fought over race (Tally still had a hard time believing that one) the surgery was framed as the equalizer. The pretty committee (the team David’s parents were on) designed the specs that the pretty’s would be based on each generation. They had healthy clear skin so that people would think wow they are healthy I should want to have a family with them they gave you wide child like eyes so that you could be seen as someone to protect etc… it was their explanation for why pretty’s never got into fights because when you’re pretty you don’t have ugly problems. The surgery adds a lesion to your brain that makes you happy, agreeable and easy to control

[@nicks1451]

Can you imagine your own best friend giving you a nickname based on your most unflattering quality? "Oh, hey there, Receding Hairline!" "Nice to see you again, Ball-Sized Goiter!"

[@ManOfTheNoldor]

I don't what your saying, but i already do that.

[@macaemeia146]

yeah

[@rrodey]

I call my brother Bald because his forehead is so ginormous but go off I guess

[@dizzystateofbliss]

😅

[@nvk225]

yes bc it's just normal for Chinese aunties/uncles now imagine family gatherings

[@lilysong1321]

The funny thing is the book has emphasis that “uglies” are anything NATURAL. Pretties are unnaturally and superficially pretty. There’s a conversation between two characters talking about getting gems implanted into their eyes that tell time. It’s incredibly absurd. Which is the point. Pretties are ABSURD. It’s a great book honestly. The fact that the movie is just awful is sad.

[@fangchick93]

@@lilysong1321 I recently reread the series, and even as an adult in my 30s, I thoroughly enjoyed it. And the love triangle is a lot better handled in how the feelings are developed. Like, we spend time with both guys and it makes sense why Tally has feelings for both.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

If I had a nickel for every time a pre-2008 novel featuring teenagers and a dystopian future was adapted into a boring and gray rip-off of the first Hunger Games movie.

[@wildste]

Well you would definitely have more than two nickels, that's for sure

[@ms-ellie3370]

​@@wildste which isn't a lot, but it's dissapointing it happened more than once...

[@raquelle_icon]

I appreciate the phineas and ferb reference 👆

[@TimothyRobert93]

You know Uglies acme before Hunger Games right.

[@raquelle_icon]

​@@TimothyRobert93acme

[@unseenninja83]

“Hot girl this, hot girl that, how about you take a hot second and go to your local library.” Lol

[@NotD-kp3by]

I swear the day Joey King is in a genuinely good film is the day pigs fly

[@r0s3m4ryyy]

She was in "The Act", although granted, it wasn't a movie.

[@hardtech87]

She was in Bullet Train which is a pretty good popcorn movie.

[@tregoboing]

Bullet Train. Oink oink.

[@JR-kx3jr]

She needs to fire her agent.

[@AmazingMelodiesYouTube]

Ramona and Beezus

[@xoxonastasia]

In the book before you were 16 you were normal, not ugly. Society made them feel ugly so they would undergo the procedure. The surgery elevates your appearance to uncanny levels of beauty, but they also messed with your brain. The surgery was essentially just a cover up to mess with your brain. The books were so good, it's such a shame.

[@malloryoates8580]

it is such a shame. should have been a tv series like 13 Reasons Why. that book came out around the same time.

[@abnormalhumanbeing]

why does the plot of uglies remind me of those tiktok hero pov where the main person clicks the air at 18 and gets their superpower

[@Moon-oh1fj]

Those content were Cringe tbh!

[@yusurkassem4174]

@@Moon-oh1fjomg those were all over my fyp😭 they were so cringe but so addicting

[@Night_Light9123]

Those were a guilty pleasure of mine 😅 so cringe but wanted to see more

[@littleleah310]

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[@littleleah310]

@@Moon-oh1fjfr

[@kartoonfanatic]

The book is a soft commentary on beauty's subjectivity and the pursuit of perfection being unhealthy, but it's lack of angst and cartoonish action keeps it from thinking too highly of itself. That's why it's one of my favorite dystopians. Scott Westerfield is one of the better YA writers. This series deserves better.

[@kai262]

Who would’ve guested bleaching my hair blonde and getting gold eye contacts would fix my insecurities 😂

[@fairycat23]

If you've been brainwashed all your life to believe that will fix you insecurities, it might work... for like, a few months.

[@DaniMalfoy22]

Real 😂

[@That.Dam.D3migod]

@@DaniMalfoy22hello fellow hp fan

[@DaniMalfoy22]

@@That.Dam.D3migod hello😆 I loved Alex’s Harry Potter series 🤭

[@That.Dam.D3migod]

@@DaniMalfoy22 I haven’t watched that series yet bc I wanna finish all the books before I watch the movies but I’m really excited to watch it (I’m on book 6 rn)

[@BeautifulModelBarbaraHutch-v4e]

I just feel like Joey King should be past this point by now as an actress. This is some of the oddest typecasting I've ever seen.

[@mranima748]

When I saw the film title i wasn’t expecting YA dystopian

[@p-__]

My farts are better than Alex’s farts 💨

[@Eating509]

​@@p-__ you must stink then

[@MildlyPerturbed]

@@p-__good for you

[@whatsascallion]

Arguably bad for him. Xd.

[@AddisonR2909]

no same-

[@Ixey2k]

“Imagine deciding your entire life when you 16” GCSEs 😢

[@chvcocatsss]

“Imagine deciding ur whole life at sixteen” British people: 😢😢😢😢

[@wildste]

Yup

[@poisionblade]

GCSEs were utter dogshit

[@darthtepes]

Any country where 16 yos graduate: "That hurts".

[@moist000Critits]

@@darthtepes CBSE's 💀💀

[@elenaacatalinei]

@@poisionbladenot gcses, a levels

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

Tally was absolutely fitting into the trope of a “ Mary Sue”. She was very easily good at everything and somehow was able to jump and climb bridges and shit to get away from soldiers with insane technology

[@yasminemixon9340]

That alone doesn't make a character a Mary sue

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

@@yasminemixon9340 it literally does that’s kinda the point of a Mary sue

[@yasminemixon9340]

@@livvyyyyyyyyyyy a Mary sue is someone who doesn't have any flaws or weaknesses and everyone loves them and they can do no wrong. and if someone doesn't like them then it's because they're a villain. Being good at stuff alone doesn't make a Mary sue.

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

@@yasminemixon9340 you literally described our main character. ☠️

[@scytheseven9173]

I think a better way to have done this would be to have all the 'uglies' be the same as they are, but to make the 'pretties' CGI/animated, like Ready Player One or something. Hard to get more of an unattainable beauty standard than literal cartoons. Plus, they could be making a point about the expectations set by characters like Elsa from Frozen.

[@fairycat23]

I would've loved that!

[@francesca4814]

I get what ppl are saying about the actors already being conventionally attractive, but that's the point. They aren't ugly, but society is telling them they are and need to change. Peris being called "Nose" when he doesn't even have a large one proves that they search for flaws that aren't there to back up society's manipulation of people. Even if the surgery barely changes anything, you're still manipulated into thinking you are now good enough when you already were.

[@mansouralshahri4938]

It would be a lot more impactful if they actually hired people that are conventionally ugly because that's showing a positive message saying that you aren't ugly that's just what society says where are the movies are casting conventionally pretty people to be ugly , basically telling you that if you are a conventional ugly than society's right you are ugly

[@ermkayyy]

This is what I was gonna say!! I completely agree but I don’t think the movie executed it well

[@BlueHairedYaoi]

​@mansouralshahri4938 I mean that wasn't the point of the book either. The whole thing was about freakish beauty standards that suddenly turn regular, average-looking people into freakish monsters that no one would ever think to love. If the actors were non conventionally attractive that would actually make the message even more bland, not saying that would be a bad idea but still

[@linanafie8571]

From what I've heard, in the books it's not just about gaslighting people into thinking they're ugly but it's also about making them overgo actual harsh and violent physical transformations for them to fit society's definition of pretty. Like imagine if when you turn 16 the government was forcing you to undergo a surgery because you're too chubby for their standards. There's an amazing message to it which I really hoped the movie could've done it better 😅

[@dinoeatingpeople]

THANK you!!!

[@PlayerOne.StartGame]

The pretties are supposed to be freakish good-looking with symmetrical faces and every thing to the T perfect. The pretties in the movie just look like attractive people with eye contacts in. They should have used CGI.

[@ieatpeopleand]

They should have used prosthetic makeup on them like they did Shallow Hal.

[@yourlittleinsomniac5369]

From everything I've seen the specials and adults don't look that different which is just wrong. The Specials are meant to be predatory and the main one we see is described as with wolf-like features iirc.

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

This is why some books just shouldn't be adapted, because you can't really have "perfect people" and portray that in a believable way. Beauty is subjective, so this story in book form actually works really well because anyone reading it will have their own interpretation on what these beautiful people look like BUT in movie form... it doesn't work as well.

[@koutsioj4762]

@@Hannah_The_Heretic Even if they had "perfect" people, this is just a very bad premise for a movie

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

@@koutsioj4762 well no that's not what I'm saying. This is fine in book form but as a visual medium this story quickly falls apart

[@cadburyyork5052]

The cool thing about reading the book is when you stop and you're like, wait, these kids aren't ugly, they're just normal, and the pretties are very unnatural. Putting it in a visual format loses that initial shock, plus the pretties just have a snap chat filter on them.

[@zandikhetwayo7444]

This movie needed a bigger budget😭

[@starcrossedjedis3677]

The fact that she basically gets both in the end like "in the end you don't want to be pretty so you get to be it free of repercussion" is so wild 😂😂😂

[@catmanduu66]

I thought the pig mask to sneak into a pretties party was spot on. At first I thought it was just a mask, which would work probably, but then it actually morphed her too that was brilliant.

[@TheHorrorShowChannel]

“Ok, guess I’ll go walk into the ocean then” caught me completely off-guard. Lol

[@thatbooknerdoverthere7899]

6:10 Nose looking like the Human Ken is not what I'd call pretty but eh, what do I know about prettiness anyway? *goes sob in a corner*

[@knightfallprotocol]

EVERYTHING with Joey king as the main character is hilariously dumb

[@iewutake]

I generally dont like her movies too, but "The Act" was good. And uglies gave me major nostalgia so i liked it 😅

[@nonameless2]

except Ramona and Beezus, but that's old school

[@mariesina_]

She's also in "We were the lucky ones " and that was absolutely amazing

[@KickinSapphire]

@@mariesina_ I was going to say the same thing. That show genuinely hit me at times 😭

[@nishangkinibarua]

​@@nonameless2 ramona and beezus hits home! ❤

[@KaizerKay209]

For anyone who sees the shred of a good idea - please read the books. The world building, characters, and ideas are much better flushed out and relevant.

[@fairycat23]

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[@larissa64381]

I was obsessed with the books and the spin off series Imposters. The movie really did not represent the books whatsoever and was way too rushed. There wasn’t any character development or world building and there was barely even a plot. My favorite parts of the books was how much of it was just the characters in the wild trying to not die and there wasn’t any of that in the movie.

[@ChiakiHatori]

This really feels like a story that would really hit if you read it for the first time as a young teen. Seeing the movie clips and premise as a 26 year old feels ridiculous but I'm sure it had a lot of charme back then for many people.

[@TimothyRobert93]

The books are great. The movie just wasn't done that well

[@ChiakiHatori]

@@TimothyRobert93 I could almost guess that this was the case. It's a shame that most movie adaptations fail to capture the same charme of the book. The message itself is good so would you recommend the book to someone my age as well?

[@BrokensoulRider]

@@ChiakiHatori It's worse when you realize they could have done this fully 2d or 3d animation and kept closer to the premise.

[@TarisLuna]

I've read the books as a teen (I'm in my 30s now) and from what I remember, those books were great. Now that I see those movie clips I understand how people from other fandoms feelt, when the movie slaughters their precious. And yes, that movie would have been so much better as an animated movie.

[@probablypositivity8918]

​@@ChiakiHatori I'm 23 and will probably read the books again after this wave of nostalgia. I remember them being pretty great, though they could feel pretty rushed in parts of the story. But I really liked the world building, and I remember really loving the pictures that it painted. So I would recommend it, but part of that could be influenced by my nostalgia. Also some great messages about self-acceptance and how harsh beauty standards can quickly turn dehumanizing.

[@user-ec9zj2od1u]

As someone who came from the books, Netflix really fumbled on this one…

[@BeautifulModelBarbaraHutch-v4e]

netflix recommended this film to me like two days ago but i've already thought it looked really bad and as soon as alex meyers says its stupid, there ain't no way im gonna waste my time watching it

[@QuickTurtleKL]

Uuumm- so you just let other people think for you? That's not healthy

[@juliusarcher7241]

@@QuickTurtleKL Maybe you should... read first? They literally said they already thought it was going to be bad and didnt show much interest so other people reviewing it also saying exactly that certainly is a good enough argument to not watch a movie. Genuinely is the concept of looking at a Review before wasting your time on pointless bullshit a unheard of concept here?

[@user-x7dc2pq7n]

@@QuickTurtleKLhow is a second opinion unhealthy?

[@QuickTurtleKL]

@@juliusarcher7241 i did read it, otherwise i wouldn't have been able to answer. and i understand they said they thought it looked bad, but that wasn't the point i was focusing on, they specified that just because Alex said it was bad, they won't watch it. now i fully respect her (assuming female because of profile and name) decision to not watch it, but i want it to be because she choose not to. and not because someone else gave their opinion on the matter. i was trying to be helpful. now i'm guessing she chose to not watch it because of her own mind. but again, not the point i was trying to make.

[@juliusarcher7241]

@@QuickTurtleKL People having Reviewers they trust is also not a unheard of concept. Like for real man no here is just "Blindly Following Opinions". It is just a movie, if a person I followed and typically agreed with on media told me a certain series was hot garbage I probably would not waste my time with it especially if my previous expose to it lead me to already believe it to be as such. Exhibit A. Velma. Thought it looked like trash, reviewers I watched explained it is Trash, I did not watch Trash.

[@Eli_203]

The older I get the more I realize how insane it is for these main characters to be between 15-17, they’re so young 😭

[@zacharymccoy7091]

I love diet Divergent, which was already diet Hunger Games.

[@im_an_oyster]

Uglies came out before both of those series btw Not saying it's better just saying it didn't copy them

[@unvergebeneid]

​@@im_an_oysterIt's definitely better than Divergent. And yes, came here to say what you said.

[@a.j.grabish9029]

Diet entertainment

[@MildlyPerturbed]

@@im_an_oysterare you talking about the books or movies? The first Hunger Games book came out in 2008.

[@Mira_anna13]

​@@MildlyPerturbed at 15:18 you can see that Uglies came out in 2005 :)

[@admiralfischi3110]

Netflix trying to convince me Joey King is ugly is the dumbest thing since they casted the hot guy frome Cobra Kai to play an ugly dude.

[@matiganschumacher2259]

alex the "uglies" not being actually ugly is kinda of the point? it's that their beauty standards have gotten so out of control that everything about you is ugly until you get plastic surgery to "fix" yourself

[@ashleyr6809]

If these characters want to see ugly, they should look at me. 😒

[@DarkSeraph]

​@@ashleyr6809Same, I look like a potato.

[@Nezukoscat]

​@@ashleyr6809 I know right

[@vannishpegasus3094]

I think he gets their point but his issue is that their being too heavy handed and on the nose with the message

[@Svol09]

​@@ashleyr6809damn, self burn, that's rare.

[@crackerjack9311]

Its a little weird they have a trans actor as a villain who is trying to force surgery upon kids because they need to have their outward appearance reflect how they think they should look….

[@karimeortiz2349]

I mean seems realistic

[@axo4822]

Oh wow. Thats really something

[@kin8665]

​@@karimeortiz2349 and you seem dumb

[@chaosspy6723]

that's what they auditioned for

[@crackerjack9311]

@@chaosspy6723 ohh, so thats how that works…

[@rhhzdhbs2576]

There should be a writing competition for who can make the worst YA novel/film. Alex would genuinely be the best judge

[@ManOfTheNoldor]

Alex cant read silly

[@anjonaebenton4248]

The book was actually amazing the movie did it dirty

[@mkwhite5054]

@@anjonaebenton4248exactly. It should’ve been a series. It’s annoying that a lot of the finer details were stripped away because Netflix, ONCE AGAIN, was too lazy and cheap to properly adapt something

[@BrokensoulRider]

@@mkwhite5054 Not only too lazy, but using the wrong medium. Live action does the book little favors because it becomes limited.

[@user-kv8kr5fu8v]

1:04 are we not going to talk about the fact that Alex Meyers be kinda ripped. Like dude bro looks like a giga Chad lol😂😂

[@jaysha8553]

The Uglies weren’t really ugly in the first place. They just wanted everyone to get an operation.

[@novakitty1619]

Yeah they just look like normal people, the point is the "pretties" are freakishly perfect. Shay, idek if she's in the movie, talks about how it's just societal conditioning.

[@alisonselje2809]

Scott Westerfeld's really good book deserved so much better

[@koraorion4506]

I didn't know this was made into a movie and I loved the books, so I think I'm going to pretend I still don't know

[@melissagola3786]

​@@koraorion4506honestly me and my sister both love the series and enjoyed the film. It's not perfect and GOOD GOD the hover boards are goofy but it's decent.

[@cuca_]

The books were good? I remember them being boring and poorly executed, not dissimilar to the film

[@melissagola3786]

@@cuca_ don't do my childhood like that lol. I remember loving the books but I've not reread them for years!

[@yourlittleinsomniac5369]

I loved the Ugliest series when I was younger. I re-read them more recently (within the last year or so) and it's not bad, but it absolutely was written for a younger targeted audience in a way that most YA books weren't/aren't. Not by the topics but by the word choices and writing structure which makes the books easy to read for the younger audience but also feel slow on every page.

[@Nova_3579]

As a kid I was obsessed with the hoverboards. It's sad that the book was turned into this mess.

[@MiltonGagliardi]

You can tell the books were written in 2005 when the message is the classic "Pretty dumb girl bad, ugly smart girl good" you'd find in a Facebook meme

[@ellencoleman4604]

That wasn't the message of the book at all though?

[@jacejacobs4044]

@@ellencoleman4604And I will die on this hill. People need to admit they didn’t read the books and move on lmao

[@kendra4932]

That’s not the point though, it’s the societal definitions and consequences behind “ugly” and “pretty”. Media literacy below the surface level is important.

[@jacejacobs4044]

@@kendra4932 exactly exactly exactly!!!!

[@probablypositivity8918]

That isn't the point at all. Have you read the books or are you just making stuff up? In the books, even many models would be considered ugly because of the extreme beauty standards that everyone is subjected to. It doesn't seem to create a dichotomy of "you can be smart or you can be pretty," though that trope was very common in that time.

[@WorldinJeopardy]

I loved this series as a kid and was excited when i saw it pop up on Netflix. I wish they could've made it into a series though, even a short one to give more time to things, especially her time in the Smoke. Also, being "ugly" doesn't actually mean, ugly in the full sense. It's just that they haven't been made to look unrealistically perfect (her symmetry comment highlights this as scientifically it has been said we are drawn to faces that are more symmetric, though it's near impossible to actually have a symmetric face). Their nicknames just hone in on that one trait that really stands out for making them seem "unattractive". They're really just normal people which I do think they handle well. I felt like things moved fast, but for the time they had to work with, it wasn't a bad adaption imo. Plus the Pretties city did look fking amazing. They did a great job bringing that to life and showcasing why people would be enthralled with the lifestyle awaiting them.

[@keyonalyles2267]

The books were better, but it's good to see Joey King in a role where she actually gets some type of agency and isn't just a crying mess the entire time.

[@Mourning_Brew]

Funny how many people cover this and not "You Again" when "You Again" was unintentionally a lot darker.

[@orviianj7965]

YALL DON'T SKIP THE AD, THERE'S ALEX AT THE GYM. Got me blushing and shi

[@Delsin42]

Fr,clean up on aisle..my pants! Amirite😂

[@JohnPork-rm6qc]

gay

[@JohnPork-rm6qc]

@@Delsin42 gay

[@ashleyr6809]

He has a girlfriend

[@AveryMoore-nh5gt]

oh shi, lemme go back.

[@pierrexxanubis]

The fact that the books are called: Uglies, Pretties, Specials and Extra’s says everything about this.

[@fairycat23]

Says that the author committed hard to the absurd slang of this universe. For another example, the pretties call everything "bubbly" or "bogus," which is not that different that today's gamers calling everything "based" or "cringe" or even "W" or "L."

[@crypticcryptid4702]

Pretty decent books on how societal brainwashing can influence what you think is ugly/ pretty as well as a lot of world building on how the world works. The surgeries were a coverup for a government method of control and it does turn into a typical revolution thing at the end. Still had fun though. Shame the movie was trash.

[@zandikhetwayo7444]

You just don’t get it bruh😭

[@Chimpy1]

11:23 the fact that you used that song lmao 😂

[@rei2684]

"Eveyone has to work even our eldest " yeah girl that doesn't sound good

[@ethanharvey]

That whole scene is some of the cultiest shit I've ever heard. I was like, oh cool, it's not the Good Guys vs the Bad Guys, both groups suck in opposite ways. But that would have been more interesting than this movie is capable of.

[@rei2684]

@ethanharvey omg yes that would be interesting but nooooo instead of world building we need ofc a love triangle like the whole story is irrelevant in ya need ofc focus on the mid romance part only

[@zandikhetwayo7444]

@@ethanharveyYeah you clearly didn’t understand either the books or the movies if you think that community is cultish or just as bad as the Pretties society but go off 💀💀🙏🏾

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

SHE GETS THE SURGERY AT THE END?! 😂😂😂😂 so dumb 🤣

[@novakitty1619]

lol yeah and then she gets another type of surgery in the later books that she again, doesnt want to get lmao

[@derkaiser420]

Even reading this when. I was younger I thought the concept was dumb. The entire World is based on 16 year olds who want to be hot and that is the only thing that matters. Who does the jobs, makes the buildings, or harvests the food? Doesn't matter, just hot. I thought it was dumb when I was 12 and I still think its dumb.

[@TimothyRobert93]

You do realize they get jobs when they become middle pretties?

[@neetpride5919]

To be fair, nothing matters if you're hot. Even in the apocalypse hot people do pretty well

[@noahsmith6455]

I saw my mom looking at this on Netflix, and I seriously started laughing uncontrollably at the trailer and summary. It sounded like such a bland, edgy thing that a middle-schooler would write in a notebook. Of course, it made sense when I found out it was a book written in 2008

[@cuca_]

Hahaha same, I remember getting the series at like 12 cus the premise sounded interesting but I couldn’t get past the first book, just low quality execution of a decent idea

[@TumblinWeeds]

@@neetpride5919hotness is relative. Hot people get so many privileges because they’re rare. You can’t give privileges to literally everyone over 16. Who’s producing the food, doing the work? The under 16 year old ugly kids? I don’t see them in coal mines.

[@nyarix4838]

9:12 I love the Christmas story ref LMAO

[@kami_overlord]

Yooooo!!! As I was watching this movie yesterday, the only thing in my mind was "I hope Alex Meyers does a videoabout this"

[@basetsanam1876]

Saaaame

[@fangchick93]

The sad part is that the book series is actually very well written with characters who react how people would actually react to things. But it was never as popular as the other series.

[@OBGat]

I thought the whole point was that they looked fine, but their government has such a specific view of what attractiveness is. That's how I viewed it in the book. They could have picked more average looking people though. Other than that I'll just say that book adaptations are always tricky.

[@ZaydinTTV]

I thought it was also a way of keeping the populace compliant? I thought the second book established that the procedure added lesions to the brain or something like that and making them more malleable.

[@OBGat]

@@ZaydinTTV You're right, it's definitely both of those things.

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

I think what would’ve fixed this is if they just made the “pretty” people look uncanny and extreme. Then it would really establish the wild beauty standards and show how in their world, they really are “ the uglies”. Bc the “pretties” look barely different to the “uglies”, it’s not believable and it isn’t enough to just say “the standard is different”. They need to show it more/ better.

[@crypticcryptid4702]

@@ZaydinTTV Yeah but the whole pretty thing was what made the people want the surgery

[@crypticcryptid4702]

@@livvyyyyyyyyyyy Yeah that was how they were described in the books, with them even remarking that "old" models looked ugly. But can't have that sort of thing in a hollywood film ig

[@matthewmitchell3457]

It's so funny/disturbing how Hollywood makes all these movies where the homely/less hot person is the hero to show that looks don't really matter, yet they can never bring themselves to cast someone who's not hot, because hot people sell tickets. They have to just tell us that the person is ugly and have us suspend our disbelief, and so the message gets watered down from "even if you're ugly, you can still be an amazing, inspiring person" to "you can still be amazing and inspiring even if you're not a 10. (Just as long as you're not toooo ugly. Like as long as you're in the range of 7 to 9, or even 6, you've still got a chance even if you're not a 10. Jury's out on a 4 though.)"

[@theadaptationstationmaster]

Yeah, but to be fair, how would the legitimately unattractive actors feel if critics praised those movies because "for once, they actually cast an ugly person?"

[@matthewmitchell3457]

@@theadaptationstationmaster Maybe. I don't know though, it seems like Hollywood hasn't usually had a problem casting deliberately fat or unattractive people for unlikeable, side, or villain characters. It requires some tact, I'm sure, but there are a good number of people out there who truly accept that they are ugly/not very attractive. I once saw a Facebook group called "A group for ugly people", and the description says "You must be a 5 or below in order to join. Please don't be offended if you're not accepted, and don't be offended if you are." And to me, ugly is a strong word; seems like most explicitly non-pretty hero characters are supposed to be just plain or meh, not necessarily downright ugly. I think if you put out an ad saying "Must be ACTUALLY not that attractive", you'd get quite a few people happy to get cast in the role and portray the meager physical attractiveness of the character.

[@sleepyw1253]

13:55 im literally holding a makeup sponge rn💀

[@caitlinnothhard994]

Think I'll just stick to The Twilight's Zone's "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" which doesn't needlessly stretch such a simple concept to a full length movie. And, I gotta wonder if that pig mask is meant to be a reference to The Eye of the Beholder episode of Twilight Zone, which also better tackles the themes of enforced beauty standards.

[@acomplexmetaphor]

Absolutely first thing I thought. How can they not be honest about it, it's ironic they missed the whole point of equality in that episode.

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

YES. The first thing I thought was “this is a crappy ripoff of a great twilight zone episode….” Number 12 looks like you was the first twilight zone episode I’ve seen. It was pretty good, so definitely better than this movie.

[@crypticcryptid4702]

Book was based off of the episode, and I'd say yes on the reference. The movie kind of took a hatchet to the book and washed everything good about it away.

[@HadarianBeacon]

"I don't want to be free, I want to be pretty." Left me speechless.

[@MyMyCache]

Not this coming out just after I finished watching the movie

[@HarshaUdayani]

sameeee lol😂😂

[@declanashmore]

This didn't come out after I finished watching the movie either. What a coincidence.

[@itspribanerjee]

same

[@GelckoPlayz]

DO THE MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!! MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL!!

[@wojciech_leszczynski]

This is based on a book, which is itself based on a Twilight Zone episode called "Number 12 Looks Just Like you " Do yourself a favour and watch this episode instead of this movie.

[@jamesnelson6656]

The one with the pig noses right?

[@snorpington5910]

Nah, different one with default pretty faces

[@xletragedyx]

Sadly prescient

[@elephants_are_awesome4990]

Dude, that was such a good episode!

[@crypticcryptid4702]

I mean the book is a pretty decent read too. Don't watch the movie tho

[@FlyingZard11]

"Beautiful and free from hatred and discrimination." Reality: PFFT! AHAHAHAHA! You hear this lady?

[@LivingFire_BurningFlame]

Unfortunately most Hollywood executives still see animation as something only for small children. Doesn’t matter how well anime is hitting with the teens, the idea of making their own teen-aimed animation just never enters their minds.

[@andiman44]

I’ve literally been thinking about the lack of animated Western projects for teens. It would help a lot of these adaptations out 😅

[@leonavis]

then again, Netflix did Edgerunners

[@anirose25]

It’s midnight and I’m trying not to die laughing in my dorm at Alex laughing at the Ugo police

[@CocobuddCreates]

6:40 CACKLING

[@oneangrygeek4575]

So, this looks like The Twilight Zone : Number 12 Looks Just Like You with Logan's Run and Divergent elements to make it movie length.

[@xG3M0LAx]

I remember hearing someone saying that all the uglies cast are fine besides joey king💀💀

[@iewutake]

Ngl - based 😂 its terrible to say but back in the 2010s-2015s there was a topic how most women who have good bodies dont have the faces to match and its very Joey King

[@coffeeandcupcakes7310]

Part of the reason I enjoy this channel is not having to watch these movies myself. On that topic I'm still waiting for our 'beetlejuice beetlejuice' review ;)

[@illegalturkey99]

the worst part about this is that everyone is like 30

[@DarkSeraph]

It's called 'acting'

[@Arctis326]

@@DarkSeraphtoo bad Joey King can’t act 😂

[@illegalturkey99]

@@DarkSeraph no..?

[@DarkSeraph]

@@Arctis326 Yeah it sucks

[@livvyyyyyyyyyyy]

@@DarkSeraphwell age is part or making the acting believable and late 20s and 30s aren’t very great at passing for 16 year olds.

[@keerahh2378]

As weird as it sounds, i think it would've been a good idea to have the Pretties all in Uncanny Valley Makeup and the Uglies stay as they are. I think this would show the dramatic difference between what their dystopian society considers to be pretty and why it had such a big influence on Tally and other Uglies

[@evssie]

They really turned the tiktok povs into a movie, probably stole the scripts too 😂

[@caitlingill]

The books which the film was based on were written in the mid 2000s

[@caitlyngray8564]

They whole "pretty" point is that in their world EVERYONE who hasn't had the operation is considered "ugly" - at one point, they even find a magazine from before the operation and they talk about how ugly all the people are - so yes, even the most amazingly beautiful person you could imagine would be considered ugly in their world because they hadn't had the opportunity to make them basically into a plastic doll. Also, the major issue with the "pretty procedure" isn't the changing of their looks - it's the removal of their inner self - they lose their free will, their ability to think for themselves - they are basically turned into a living doll for their government!!

[@Jacobthemage]

20 seconds?, I deserve an award.

[@spritezilla_the_bebop]

11:29 BRO WHAT IS THIS BLUR VIGNETTE it looks like the meme edit of a blurry bowl of pasta

[@thedannydeathstroke]

I am so glad that this video is how I found out that they finally got around to making a movie adaptation of Uglies. They butchered the source material so badly that I'm glad that I didn't waste my time watching the actual movie.

[@f.airy.x]

Talent Agent: “Hey, I just got an acting gig for you and I think it will be really great for you! Joey King is playing the lead role and-“ Client: *hangs up phone*

[@maj1061]

And changes number

[@THE_Dodge_Morningstar]

😂BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE? I wonder if chuckling at that is okay, because that movie is a Certified Holiday Tradition... Or it just means I'm effing old. Lol I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

[@maepletea]

I loved these books when I was younger and when I heard that Netflix was making a movie adaptation I immediately knew that they wouldn't do it right

[@Prometheus715]

The moment I saw the poster and read the description I was like "Are they really gonna try to convince people Joey King is supposed to be Ugly"

[@Biittiriisi]

Hard not to be offended that Joey King is somehow considered ugly in Hollywood.

[@montyperkins3137]

This is based on an old twilight zone episode called "number 12 looks just like you" which was , apparently based on a short story call "beautiful people".

[@xracingwavesx]

They did the book so dirty...

[@toxicDEATHwish]

Fr

[@nukiesduke6868]

Seems like a very common thing. I wish authors and other IP owners would stop signing over the rights to their stuff to Hollywood UNLESS they have a lot of creative control over it.

[@shakibzz]

I'm hoping this just triggers more readers to the books maybe???? Bad publicity is still publicity?? Ughhhh ​@@nukiesduke6868

[@Docucouple]

I KNEW THEY WOULD. I SAW THE TRAILER AND I WAS LIKE THAT ISN'T IT

[@shakibzz]

@@Docucouple 😭😭😭

[@noctemys]

at SIXTEEN they get a greenlight for a glow up??? They're STILL TEENAGERS OMGGGG

[@jacobrichard118]

This as a concept for a dystopian YA novel sounded kinda dumb from the beginning lmaoo

[@darao.4907]

no seriously like ok you’re ugly now what 😭 and do they just abandon all their children until they turn 16

[@FlowerEmblem]

The concept was actually based on a Twilight Zone episode, "Number 12 Looks Just Like You"

[@jacobrichard118]

@@FlowerEmblem with alot of these YA movies, i would guess the book does better with the concept

[@viktoryc]

The books are actually really good, but you can't really capture it in real life because the "pretties" are just really symmetrical and unobtainable. Whereas this movie just puts a filter on them.

[@WildRabiea]

When I saw trailer for this movie I read a lot of the book series fans telling how the story was really good. From what I read it seemed like it - acceptance of all your insecurities during teenage years. But movie was so rushed, they had like 1min to portray close relationships between characters and that didn't work at all. This could've been series at it would of worked.

[@Ratichael_Ratorbius]

feels like the name fits ngl

[@nugboy420]

3:44 haha the jingle

[@chrisfoley1961]

I really thought Shay and Main Girl were gonna end up together until i remembered the book is from 2005. Why can't we get any good Rick Riordan adaptions with all of his queer character goodness 🥺

[@olympusthedarkone83]

Because no one wanna watch that shit

[@StrawberryCakeStudiosYT]

Yo Lowkey I was like, 👀

[@iclynnx]

​@@olympusthedarkone83Speak for yourself

[@BlueZebra1955]

Twilight Zone season 5. "Number 12 Looks Just Like You."

[@Ace_saturn.star.]

I used to read the books and they did them dirty-

[@isaiahtowers1865]

It’s wild when movies and shows call people “ugly” when they are actually objectively attractive. Like has anyone in Hollywood seen an ugly person?

[@Nochy-sf1zs]

Watching Alex review a terrible movie while I eat junk food is my free therapy :-3✨

[@DaniS398]

I promised myself as a young adult I wouldn't hate on YA fiction when I'm older, yet here I am, scratching my head trying desperately to keep that promise.

[@thebreadwing27]

It's been a while since I read the books. I remember getting to the first chapter of specials, deciding that the protagonists have lost everything that compelled me to enjoy them as characters, and dropped it.

[@emileeklein4223]

Sometimes I see a movie in my Netflix recommended and I think “Well that looks like a mediocre teen movie. I’ll just wait for Alex Meyers to do a video on it.” I’m never disappointed to say the least.

[@derpylovecosplay]

It's so ironic that the moment you upload this video, my dad was watching this movie last night. I heard it and thought it was the Hunger Games, I go into the living room and see that it's UGLIES. I immediately turn around like "Nevermind."