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!"
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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*
I didn't think it was as bad as everyone else does. The books are better but they usually are. My excitement was high but expectations were low enough that it just wasnt as disappointing.
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
Main problem is of the movie, we should embrace who we are and all but BEGIN AN PRETTY IS OBVIOUSLY THE BETTER CHOICE IN THIS WORLD!!! Like yeah begin little numb and dumb and mabye having a slight chance of getting ill, but what's the fucking alternative??? Starving in the woods??? Where ofc never something horrible happen to someone, yeah no sign me up for the surgery's
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.
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.
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.
It actually makes me sad whenever videos like this come out because Netflix always gets more engagement with their dumbed down lolcow shows and movies than when they actually produce something halfway interesting that they immediately cancel like Archive 81 or hell even Daybreak.
Alice Green wanting to send her daughter to plumbing school makes more and more sense the deeper you dive into the Netflix well of YA radioactive waste...
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."
I got the og Twilight zero ep vibes with some of the similar plot of this in regards to the surgery on the whatever age . The other part reminds me of the hunger games
Oh no, its a plott twist like in surrogates. Also there is a little Equilibrium in the mix because, copying would make it actual sci fi maybe .... somehow
That's why u fell of not gonna lie u skipped all of the important parts of the film and jumped to jugde it 5:15 she wasn't curious she wanted to speak to Paris 6:49 she jumped of a really high building 9:41 they gave her a necklace to contact them not a tracker 11:25 she didnt jump into that bunker 12:50 she threw the necklace into the fire causing it to malfunction 14:26 he didn't mention that shay was turned into a pretty The illustration was poor in this video 😢
I knew this was going to be a disaster when they casted Joey King as the ugly girl. Alex is right this can literally only work in a book because you’d be lying to yourself if you called any of the characters in this movie ugly.
I grew up reading the books this is based off and I loved the book series. This is not something that is easy to make a movie adaptation of. I think the books are great social commentary and I highly recommend reading them but I don't think that any movie could ever do it justice.
I watched this movie with my mom after watching Rebel Ridge with my whole family. I loved rebel ridge but my mom hated the ending. Little did she know uglies's ending was even worse
Can you do Cinderella's revenge its on tubi the acting is ok ive seen better effects in other horror movies but other than that it was way better than i thought it would be the pumpkin and mice being replaced with an electric car and fashion designers from different time periods caught me off guard😂😂😂
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oil up Alex
PLEASE DO A VIDEO ABOUT DISNEY'S "ZAPPED"!!! 😓
Hi everyone
My farts are better than Alex’s farts 💨
I'm really sick so you did make my day better thank you!
“Imagine deciding ur whole life at sixteen”
British people: 😢😢😢😢
Yup
GCSEs were utter dogshit
Any country where 16 yos graduate: "That hurts".
I swear the day Joey King is in a genuinely good film is the day pigs fly
She was in "The Act", although granted, it wasn't a movie.
She was in Bullet Train which is a pretty good popcorn movie.
Bullet Train. Oink oink.
She needs to fire her agent.
When I saw the film title i wasn’t expecting YA dystopian
My farts are better than Alex’s farts 💨
@@p-__ you must stink then
@@p-__good for you
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!"
Dk whag your saying, but i already do that.
Scott Westerfeld's really good book deserved so much better
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
@@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.
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
If these characters want to see ugly, they should look at me. 😒
@@ashleyr6809Same, I look like a potato.
@@ashleyr6809 I know right
I think he gets their point but his issue is that their being too heavy handed and on the nose with the message
@@ashleyr6809damn, self burn, that's rare.
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.
Well you would definitely have more than two nickels, that's for sure
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.
Who would’ve guested bleaching my hair blonde and getting gold eye contacts would fix my insecurities 😂
This movie should've been animated and I'll die on that hill
Dying right along with you
just like da Minecraft movie
Not this coming out just after I finished watching the movie
sameeee lol😂😂
I love diet Divergent, which was already diet Hunger Games.
Uglies came out before both of those series btw
Not saying it's better just saying it didn't copy them
@@im_an_oysterIt's definitely better than Divergent. And yes, came here to say what you said.
Diet entertainment
@@im_an_oysterare you talking about the books or movies? The first Hunger Games book came out in 2008.
@@MildlyPerturbed at 15:18 you can see that Uglies came out in 2005 :)
YALL DON'T SKIP THE AD, THERE'S ALEX AT THE GYM. Got me blushing and shi
Fr,clean up on aisle..my pants! Amirite😂
gay
@@Delsin42 gay
He has a girlfriend
oh shi, lemme go back.
I remember hearing someone saying that all the uglies cast are fine besides joey king💀💀
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
There should be a writing competition for who can make the worst YA novel/film. Alex would genuinely be the best judge
Alex cant read silly
EVERYTHING with Joey king as the main character is hilariously dumb
I generally dont like her movies too, but "The Act" was good. And uglies gave me major nostalgia so i liked it 😅
Yooooo!!! As I was watching this movie yesterday, the only thing in my mind was "I hope Alex Meyers does a videoabout this"
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.
20 seconds?, I deserve an award.
They did the book so dirty...
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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.
I'm hoping this just triggers more readers to the books maybe???? Bad publicity is still publicity?? Ughhhh @@nukiesduke6868
I KNEW THEY WOULD. I SAW THE TRAILER AND I WAS LIKE THAT ISN'T IT
@@Docucouple 😭😭😭
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.
“Ok, guess I’ll go walk into the ocean then” caught me completely off-guard. Lol
I love how them being hot is just them basically putting a gold filter on them
feels like the name fits ngl
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.
*......,ONLY real Alex Meyers fans can LIKE this ❤💛💜*
I was waiting for you to review this
Watching Alex review a terrible movie while I eat junk food is my free therapy :-3✨
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*
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 😂😂😂
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
the worst part about this is that everyone is like 30
It's called 'acting'
@@DarkSeraphtoo bad Joey King can’t act 😂
@@DarkSeraph no..?
@@Arctis326 Yeah it sucks
I didn't think it was as bad as everyone else does. The books are better but they usually are. My excitement was high but expectations were low enough that it just wasnt as disappointing.
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
Watch "Catch that Kid!"
Dude... My name is tallie and I've never shared a name before 😅 also every time he says it I have a heart attack 😂
hello female are you in need of a me shaped chair?
@@JohnPork-rm6qc 🤦🏻♀️ weirdo
@@gremlinsforever i was just joking btw
@@JohnPork-rm6qc oh thank goodness 😅 why would you do that🤣
This as a concept for a dystopian YA novel sounded kinda dumb from the beginning lmaoo
Could you imagine saying yes to a lead in this film?? Your agent is calling you ugly.
Main problem is of the movie, we should embrace who we are and all but BEGIN AN PRETTY IS OBVIOUSLY THE BETTER CHOICE IN THIS WORLD!!!
Like yeah begin little numb and dumb and mabye having a slight chance of getting ill, but what's the fucking alternative??? Starving in the woods??? Where ofc never something horrible happen to someone, yeah no sign me up for the surgery's
5 minutes ago huh, if there’s a movie named that way, Alex knows what to do
"Eveyone has to work even our eldest " yeah girl that doesn't sound good
Don't y'all dare insult my fav book series. DON'T JUDGE THE STORY BY THE MOVIE THE BOOKS ARE SO GOOOOOD this hurts
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.
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.
Temu dystopian movie XD
I loved this books as a teenager and had no idea they even made it into a movie until this video 😂
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.
I used to read the books and they did them dirty-
No but seriously the party life looks so fun and she gave it away to LIVE IN A FOREST!!!!
It actually makes me sad whenever videos like this come out because Netflix always gets more engagement with their dumbed down lolcow shows and movies than when they actually produce something halfway interesting that they immediately cancel like Archive 81 or hell even Daybreak.
I really starting to think that Alex is not real maybe is a collective hallucination 🤷🏾♀️ who knows.
I would have eaten this up if it came out during the dystopian craze
This is the earliest I've ever been
I loved these books as a kid! I didn’t know they ever ended up making a movie!
The movie would have been better as an animated series as it’s hard to believe that Joey King and the rest of the cast are unattractive.
Alice Green wanting to send her daughter to plumbing school makes more and more sense the deeper you dive into the Netflix well of YA radioactive waste...
Think you could handle Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate?
Do you think Alex would know the importance of shooting with the dehydration gun?
I remember the books being a lot more dramatic. Imma have to reread them to confirm. :)
Your laugh is contagious dude😂
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."
They really turned the tiktok povs into a movie, probably stole the scripts too 😂
Sigh. Joey King is best when she has a good script to work with and/or she's a side character.
I remember reading this book forever ago, at least it's not another marvel movie lol
Have you done the "i am number four" movie? It's right there on the failed YA book adaptations form 2010
I literally just finished this movie and he posts this
Ive been a fan of the book since 2017 and I honestly liked the movie
What I found funny was the "uglies" weren't even ugly but all hot people too.
I got the og Twilight zero ep vibes with some of the similar plot of this in regards to the surgery on the whatever age . The other part reminds me of the hunger games
Oh no, its a plott twist like in surrogates. Also there is a little Equilibrium in the mix because, copying would make it actual sci fi maybe .... somehow
Wait so society is literally just split between people who are above or below 16 years old??????
Try doing the lion king cause mufasas coming out soon
I thought this movie was a joke when I saw Uglies next to Joey’s mug. Like a not very clever but accurate burn…
When I was watching the movie my first thought was "I wonder when Alex Meyers will make a video on this" lol
"A pile of trash"😂😂😂
Finally you watched it so I don't have to
That's why u fell of not gonna lie u skipped all of the important parts of the film and jumped to jugde it
5:15 she wasn't curious she wanted to speak to Paris
6:49 she jumped of a really high building
9:41 they gave her a necklace to contact them not a tracker
11:25 she didnt jump into that bunker
12:50 she threw the necklace into the fire causing it to malfunction
14:26 he didn't mention that shay was turned into a pretty
The illustration was poor in this video 😢
wait this came out now? It looks like a 2008 movie lmao
My favorite joke from this video was “be sure to drink your ovaltine” lol what a classic.
How was I not aware of this I remember that Westerfeld book series. I personally liked his Midnighter series better published around the same time.
Hard not to be offended that Joey King is somehow considered ugly in Hollywood.
I read the whole series and I don’t remember much but just that the plot kinda replayed over and over again for each book
I love not knowing if I should watch a film and then letting you watch it first
Netflix gonna be crazy when book 3 comes💀
This movie was so unhinged I didn’t know if I wanted to cry or laugh instead 😂😂that bad
I knew this was going to be a disaster when they casted Joey King as the ugly girl. Alex is right this can literally only work in a book because you’d be lying to yourself if you called any of the characters in this movie ugly.
I grew up reading the books this is based off and I loved the book series. This is not something that is easy to make a movie adaptation of. I think the books are great social commentary and I highly recommend reading them but I don't think that any movie could ever do it justice.
I watched this movie with my mom after watching Rebel Ridge with my whole family. I loved rebel ridge but my mom hated the ending. Little did she know uglies's ending was even worse
OK but why haven't you done muppets Christmas carole
Can you please do a review of the 2000 Disney movie called Dinosaur?
That scream😂
i think neflix wants money
Can you do Cinderella's revenge its on tubi the acting is ok ive seen better effects in other horror movies but other than that it was way better than i thought it would be the pumpkin and mice being replaced with an electric car and fashion designers from different time periods caught me off guard😂😂😂
I read this series in middle school. Uglies and Pretties were my favorite two books in the series.....I am sad hollywood has decided to ruin them 😭
Made no sense ❤😂
when I saw the beggining it looked like a SAmsung ad
not me waiting for you to review it since the trailer came out.
Psalms 68:19 NIV
[19] Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.
I would kill to see alex do muppets treasure island
all the teens in that ''ugly'' classroom are super good looking!???