In a future world where a compulsory operation when a person turns 16 will make them pretty, taking away any bias towards someone being ugly.
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Tally is approaching towards what she had always dreamed of, becoming pretty and being able to move to the city. Her best friend Peris is 3 months older and therefore will leave for his surgery before her, they vow to still be friends and that nothing will actually change when the way they look is modified to become everything they have ever wanted.
The thing is though people wanting to change how they look isn’t exactly something new, and is relatable as we all at some point would change something if we could. So that side of it is actually a good idea to engage or at least pull in viewers.
However, what we are then given is a total mess. There’s no nice way to put it at all, it is truly terrible. It is based on a book series that had three books and then a fourth added, so maybe that is part of the issue?
Anyway, back to the plot. Tally when attempting to find Peris makes friends with Shay who had planned on escaping and not having her surgery. This is something that Tally is tempted with but she is manipulated by Dr Cable into finding not only Shay but David one of the leaders of a group out in “The Smoke” although noone is really sure if the place actually exists. To get her to do this she is denied the surgery she had dreamed about on her 16th birthday.
The thing is though she does notice that Peris is just not the same person he was being ugly as he is pretty, and quite frankly what was going on to do that within the surgeries? Although in all honesty I didn’t even care by that point at all. It was all just a mess, not difficult to follow but just lacklustre in all possible ways. I think the way the pretties looked was just too much CGI or even what an AI photo would look like these days to even take it a tiny bit seriously.
This is another one of those films that I feel for Netflix pushes it at me when opening the app, you know always having it as featured and at the top. I mean it does work doesn’t it! Uglies had 20 million views in its first three days, 13th-15th September so I guess I wasn’t the only one.
Let's Go To The Movies 
Honestly, I enjoyed this one. Yes, it’s your typical teenage dystopian movie that’s incredibly predictable and we’ve seen so many times before be it in Hunger Games or Divergent or Maze Runner or Giver, etc.
But for whatever reason, this one didn’t annoy or bother me as I thought it would. I think it’s cuz it knew its place and didn’t try to be anything more epic or oversell itself, so I wasn’t let down. Unlike something like Divergent which I hated from the get-go which tried to be epic and sell itself as a good film.
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