UGLIES (2024)

Being an average looking dystopian movie in this bigger, better, hotter, appearance-oriented movie sphere can be really really hard. Unfortunately for Joey King (who proves once again that she can carry a film), Uglies fails to glow up. Mostly because it excited us with current issues such as our obsession with beauty, plastic surgery, the environment, etc. only to leave us high and dry about what exactly it was trying to say. What is clear is that as a society we are going down a very superficial path, but then why are all of the “ugly” boys in the Uglies commune bicep bulging former model types? Not to besmirch its point.

WATCH OR NOT: NOT

Additional musings:

If one can replicate an entire hoverboard course out of thin air, why would one make it out of concrete? And where are the helmets?