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UGLIES 1

There was a time roughly two decades ago when all Hollywood wanted to do was find the next YA adaptation for franchise development. The “Harry Potter” gold rush resulted in a few significant hits (including “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games”) and some major misses (“The Golden Compass,” “Inkheart”) while pursuing the allowance money of young viewers excited to see their favorite books on the big screen. “Uglies” is a throwback to such a production era, with screenwriters Jacob Foreman, Vanessa Taylor, and Whit Anderson taking a shot at adapting a 2005 book by Scott Westerfield, who transformed his post-apocalyptic tale of pretty people dominance and homely citizen revolution into a lucrative literary career, resulting in the release of three sequels. “Uglies” is meant to be the first of many movies, and as these things go, it’s not a rough sit, with director McG (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Family Switch”) keeping the action coming and the exposition palatable as he aims to start something big with the source material. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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