When the Uglies are prettier than the Pretties: 🤔❓ P.S. David >>>>> Peris

Bad acting, very bad. The only interesting thing was the technology. Oh man it looks by the end there is going to be a second shitty movie. Oh! NO! This movie is a MEH!

I feel this movie would’ve done a lot better maybe 15-20 years ago. I wanted to like it, but I couldn’t help laugh at how serious they were referring to these uglies and pretties. Laverne Cox.. oh girl lol Instead of making her looking like this hot scary baddie, she was just stiff, pretty and boring. Then to my girl Joey King, time to put playing a teenager to rest. They really should’ve made some changes to this book to film. Starting with that title.

If you watch the trailer you can tell how much of a shallow experience this is going to be. I actually recommend just watching the trailer, there's nothing else to add by watching the whole thing. Since I've read the book series in my teen years, I felt that I needed to watch anyway to get my two cents: They manage to translate the book really well, as far as visuals. Some scenes were exactly how I envisioned while reading, which made the full watch worthy for me. But the overall tone of the book series is way heavier. I read them while I was younger, but I remember feeling like there was much more in line then just a plastic surgery. You can tell something bigger and sinister is going on before the secrets start to come up. I didn't get that from the movie at all. The CGI was cheap looking and sometimes distracting. Happy to see Laverne in this character, though. Hope her character and the tone of the series gets heavier and heavier. But coming from Netflix, I'm not so hopeful. For a dystopian teen movie, this is too vanilla for my taste. The Hunger Games had more nerve in their first movie.