At long last, fans of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld’s iconic 2005 YA dystopian novel, have received the long-awaited screen adaptation. Somehow, Westerfeld’s series—a teen-targeted social commentary on beauty standards and our collective obsession with them—was skipped over in the late-aughts-to-early-2010s era of making movies out of bestselling postapocalyptic YA novels that gave us franchises like The Hunger Games,

Netflix original Uglies is one of the streaming service’s top films right now – and it’s left some viewers pondering the same thing. The movie is set in a dystopian future in which everyone undergoes mandatory cosmetic surgery on their 16th birthday,

"Uglies," a film adaptation of the 2005 dystopian book of the same name, is among Netflix's worst-reviewed movies of the year.