“Pretty Lethal” is another Pretty Young Things Imperiled of the “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” “Ready or Not” and so on genre.

Ho hum, right? There are only a couple of those in theaters at any given moment.

But it scores major style points for making the young women scrambling for their lives ballerinas, veritable terrors in tutus, incorporating dance into their desperate fights and box cutter knives in their toe-shoes.

The brawls have a certain brio, the villains are many and headed by a venomous Uma Thurman. And their peril is faced in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Europe’s newest dictatorship. So that’s something.

Dancing actress Maddie Ziegler of “West Side Story” and “My Old Ass” is the scruffy streetwise Bonnie Jones, “Bones” to the ballerinas in her class who like her.

“Rich bitch” mean girl Princess (Lana Condor of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movies) isn’t one of those. But fundamentalist Grace (Avantika), deaf dancer Chloe (Millicent Simmons) and her sister Zoe (Iris Apatow) are on friendly terms with “the orphan.”

Brit Ms. Thorna (Lydia Leonard) has been prepping for a big Budapest ballet showcase that could launch their careers. But getting there by re-directed flight and clunky, ancient Eastern Bloc era bus proves daunting. They have to hoof it to a small town, where the Teremok Inn isn’t as inviting as one might hope.

Goons and thugs abound. Threats are everywhere. And when the son of the local mob boss (Tamás Szabó Sipos) kills their teacher on a whim, the five tiny dancers are witnesses, messiness that the ex-dancer/owner of the inn (Thurman) must tidy up.

The foreshadowing is plentiful and laid out right from an opening monologue. Ballerinas have to be tough to “turn pain into beauty.” They keep box cutters handy to break in their new slippers. And they’re in spectacular physical condition.

As the Hungarian minions come for them and the chips are down, Bones delivers screenwriter Kate Freund’s tagline for the movie.

“These guys are drunk and out of shape, and we’re prima f——g ballerinas.“

Pavlova, Fonteyn or Misty Copeland could not have put it better.

The novelty of dance choreography bent into fighting form makes the movie more fun than most recent iterations of this formula. Kudos to stunt choreographer Shahaub Roudbari and director Vicky Jewson for making all that play out.

Ziegler and Condor are well-matched leads.

But Thurman, aptly cast as a former ballerina with a chip on her shoulder, doesn’t exactly “bring it.”

And the script runs out of fresh ideas and novel ways to challenge the dueling dancers quickly, and soon trips over its own tropes.

I certainly enjoyed this more than “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” But I can’t say it’s any better.

Rating: R, bloody violence, the threat of rape, profanity

Cast: Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Lydia Leonard, Avantika, Millicent Simmons, Iris Apatow, Tamás Szabó Sipos and Uma Thurman.

Credits: Directed by Vicky Jewson, scripted by Kate Freund. An MGM release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:31