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Janelle Monáe, We Stan You

Afuchsia stuffed doll with a gap tooth, a blue one-eyed dog, a cat that speaks gibberish, and an otherwise seemingly perfect girl who hides her glasses in a pocket until her perfect doll friends aren’t looking—these are some of the inhabitants of Uglyville and Perfection in the 2019 kids’ movie UglyDolls. One place is a gleaming factory-esque city of lookalike dolls tailored to reflect an accepted aesthetic and behavior, and the other a village of rejects who embrace their differences without knowing they’ve been exiled for perceived imperfections.

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