Why We Can't Fix the Makeover Movie

The makeover movie just won't die. Can we keep it alive with radical reimaginings like "Uglies" and even "Barbie"? Will "Princess Diaries 3" save us?
This video is part of a much longer video available now over on Patreon! "How to Build a Feminist" / how-to-build-113138906
Video by Ada Černoša and Verity Ritchie
Patreon: / verityritchie
Verity's Twitter: / verilybitchie
Verity's Instagram: / verityritchie
Ada's Twitter: / theliterarybi
Ada's website about bisexual books: theliterarybis...
Makeover movies and TV shows covered:
Pygmalion (1938)
Now, Voyager (1942)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
Matilda (1996)
Pretty Woman (1990)
She’s All That (1999)
Star Trek Voyager (1999)
Love & Basketball (2000)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Love Don’t Cost a Thing (2003)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
What a Girl Wants (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
The House Bunny (2008)
Descendants (2015)
He’s All That (2021)
Gossip Girl (2021-2023)
Do Revenge (2022)
Barbie (2023)
Uglies (2024)