‘Stale’ Netflix dystopian movie crashes out with dire Rotten Tomatoes score

New play movie Uglies hasn’t been welcomed to Netflix with a lukewarm reception, arsenic viewers person panned the Joey King project.

What’s more, the dystopian flick, released yesterday, has a dreary people of conscionable 21% connected reappraisal tract Rotten Tomatoes.

Starring 25-year-old Kissing Booth prima Joey, Uglies is acceptable successful a futuristic dystopia with enforced quality standards and follows a teen awaiting mandatory cosmetic country arsenic she embarks connected a travel to find her missing friend.

The lawsuit besides includes Chase Stokes and Laverne Cox.

Despite its promising ensemble, movie fanatics haven’t taken the caller release to their hearts, blasting its messaging arsenic ‘stale’, comparing the movie to a ‘throwaway project’, and accusing its usage of CGI of being ‘generic’.

Taking to Rotten Tomatoes, where TV and movie reviews from astir the satellite are published, some critics and viewers alike gave mediocre feedback.

Marking conscionable 1 retired of a imaginable 5 stars, movie professional Jonathan Wilson wrote: ‘The setting, outfits, CGI, action, and worldbuilding are truthful generic that, alternatively impressively, determination isn’t a azygous constituent of the full accumulation that stands retired arsenic interesting, unique, oregon inspired.’

Kristen Maldonado said Uglies ‘would’ve been an implicit deed successful the aboriginal 2000s’ but it present feels ‘outdated’.

‘The publication is awkward and the societal commentary is stale. I privation they took bigger risks and updated the root material,’ she added.

Meanwhile, assemblage subordinate Cormac C went retired of their mode to permission a antagonistic review: ‘I ne'er complaint movies but this movie was truthful atrocious that I felt similar it needed to beryllium held accountable. Netflix tin bash truthful overmuch better.’

Feeling fto down, Kristina W said: ‘I work the books erstwhile they came retired and reread them past twelvemonth successful anticipation of the movie. I was truthful disappointed, they rushed everything and the chemistry betwixt characters conscionable wasn’t there. As a immense instrumentality of the books, this movie was a disappointment.’

It wasn’t each bad, though, arsenic Priya D sang the film’s praises: ‘It’s brilliant. You request each young miss and lad to ticker this!’

Sal M besides gave it 4 stars, penning successful the comments that Uglies ‘was an absorbing caller rotation connected YA (young adult) dystopia aboriginal movies’ and praising it for being akin to The Hunger Games.

Alas, there’s nary denying that the effect to Uglies has been overwhelmingly negative, with an mean standing of 3.4 retired of 5 stars from critics.

Audience ratings averaged astatine 3.3 retired of 10, with 19 categorising it nether ‘rotten’.

Speaking up of Uglies’ release, pb Joey hailed the movie arsenic ‘a motion to my younger self’.

‘I was 11 years aged erstwhile I work these books, and they were truthful impactful to maine astatine that age, and they truly helped transportation maine done my teen years. I was astir 17 oregon 18 erstwhile I pitched Uglies to Netflix to marque arsenic a movie,’ she told Deadline.

‘It wasn’t until I was 22 that we really filmed them, and present I’m 25 and they’re yet coming out. So I person been with this publication for a really, truly agelong time, and I deliberation it’s truly chill due to the fact that I’ve gone done truthful galore changes arsenic an histrion and arsenic a idiosyncratic successful this industry, and truthful having this beryllium thing that I tin truly conscionable springiness a motion to my younger aforesaid is truly special.

‘It’s brainsick however agelong it took to get here.’

Watch Uglies connected Netflix.

Got a story?

If you’ve got a personage story, video oregon pictures get successful interaction with the Metro.co.uk amusement squad by emailing america [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 oregon by visiting our Submit Stuff leafage – we’d emotion to perceive from you.

MORE : Makeup creator alleges Jermaine Jenas ‘begged for sex’ and concealed ‘birthday kiss’

MORE : Anton Du Beke wants Giovanni Pernice ‘back connected Strictly’ arsenic BBC probe results loom