You Again (2010)

When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée's true colors.

Director:

Andy Fickman

Writer:

Moe Jelline

Stars:

Kristen Bell, Odette Annable, Sigourney Weaver

2 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kristen Bell	...	Marni
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Gail
Sigourney Weaver	...	Ramona
Odette Annable	...	Joanna (as Odette Yustman)
Victor Garber	...	Mark
Betty White	...	Grandma Bunny
James Wolk	...	Will (as Jimmy Wolk)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Georgia
Sean Wing	...	Charlie
Kyle Bornheimer	...	Tim
William Brent	...	Ben (as Billy Unger)
Christine Lakin	...	Taylor
Meagan Holder	...	Kendall
Patrick Duffy	...	Richie
Anna A. White	...	LouAnne (as Anna White)

Storyline

As a teenager Marni was the kind of girl no guy would go near and would be tormented by the mean girls, and no one was meaner to her than Joana the head cheerleader. Years later, she's a successful woman with a good job. When she goes home for her brother's wedding she discovers that her brother is marrying Joana. And he doesn't know what she did to Marni. When they meet she wants Joana to apologize for the way she treated her but Joana feigns ignorance. When Marni tells her mother, Gail about her and Joana, Gail tells her to try and put it behind her. But when Gail meets Joana's aunt Mona, it turns that she's her old friend Ramona who was her friend in high school whom she had falling out with with years ago, and Gail is unaware what caused it. Gail feels like Mona is trying to thumb her success in her face. When Marni learns that Joana does remember her she sets to expose her to her brother.

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Plot Keywords:

video tape | wedding toast | dance class | cheer | cheerleading | 

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Taglines:

What doesn't kill you... is going to marry your brother.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for brief mild language and rude behavior

Did You Know?

Trivia

The house used by Marni's family is the same house used in Freaky Friday (2003), also starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Goofs

Early in the movie, when Marni first finds out Joanna will be staying in her room, you can clearly see two twin beds. Later, when Will comes in to give Joanna the rose, there is only one large bed. The big bed is seen multiple times throughout the movie.

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Quotes

Marni: High school was a horror movie. This weekend is the sequel.

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Crazy Credits

The actors names appear next to pictures and videos of them from the movie.

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Connections

Featured in Richard Roeper & the Movies: You Again (2010)

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Soundtracks

Barracuda
Written by Michael DeRosier, Roger Fisher, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson
Performed by Heart
Courtesy of Epic Records By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

User Reviews

Four Allegedly Mature Women In A Penis-Measuring Contest

Being a guy, I always wonder, with these slapstick comedies that revolve around women with a wedding as a backdrop, do grown women over the age of 25 really become THIS immature? In "Bride Wars", you see two very attractive women pulling childish pranks on one another in preparation for their respective weddings, and somehow some women went to see that movie in droves. "You Again" received a spanking from major critics, most of whom were male, but actually turned in a profit at the box office.

I'm still really curious to know what women think when they see two women in their 20's pulling mean, callow tricks on each other, then seeing two other women in their 50's, who are attractive for their age I might add, trying to one-up each other while taking dance lessons in preparation for a wedding. Can real life women actually relate to these women on screen? Do they think their antics are funny?

Speaking as a man (whether or not that's important is up to you, the reader), I found these shenanigans ranging from cat fights to forced slapstick comedy neither amusing nor believable. If I saw my Mom acting the way either Jamie Lee Curtis or Sigourney Weaver do on screen, I would get angry, and quick.

But I digress. This movie starts out on a good note showing Marni Olsen (Kristen Bell) in high school with glasses, braces, and a bad case of acne. Although the nerd stereotype is a bit overdone here, somehow Bell succeeds in being unglamorous to the point where we, the audience, feel for her.

Her main tormentor is popular cheerleader J.J. (Odette Yustman), who is smoking hot, but effectively easy to dislike. However, the first mean prank you see pulled on Marni is her being crowd-surfed out of school by a group of jocks, including that mean cheerleader. Marni seems to be angry at J.J. and only J.J., somehow forgetting that she wasn't the only one in the crowd.

Fast forward less than a decade later, and Marni has lost the braces and glasses, is a successful P.R. executive, and looks as hot as she did in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (2008). Her post-high school transformation is one many people would envy, but none of that matters when she finds out that her older brother is about to marry J.J., who is now known as Joanne.

Marni's mother Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis) tries to convince Marni to put the past behind her. That is, of course, until it's revealed that Joanne's aunt is Ramona (Sigourney Weaver), a woman who used to be "best friends" with Gail in high school. However, you know that unresolved animosity brews underneath the facade of these two women when a flashback reveals Ramona pushing Gail into a pool. Why she did this, the movie never really explains.

The rest of the movie remains laugh-less as Kristen Bell seems to trip over herself and bang her head into several different people and objects, almost as if she's Curly from The Three Stooges. One scene shows her falling off a running path into a nest of red ants. Her love interest tries to help her, but their heads bump into one another. Nuk nuk nuk!

Of course, when Marni and Joanne trade blows, there is the inevitable catfight with dialogue so vapid and uninspired. When Joanne throws a dish at Marni, she replies, "Ooh, kitty likes to scratch!" I don't know what other movie I've heard that phrase in, but it's probably because it has been in at least six other films.

With such hackneyed verbal taunts comes a fight that fails to intrigue. Dishes get broken, Marni smashes a vase Joanne got as a gift that she claims is "so expensive" (yet looks like one you could get for $2 at Goodwill), and Joanne dumps some sort of soup over Marni's head. Are you laughing yet? You wonder what is wrong with these people, and why such hot women have maturity levels that make Zach Galifianakis look like Don Draper. Even worse, once the pratfalls come to a close, the movie tries to sugarcoat itself with messages of peace, love and reconciliation, and the rest of the movie is boring.

I thought Betty White would be the breath of fresh air in this movie. After all, she was hilarious as a "Saturday Night Live" host last year. Unfortunately, she has no really funny lines, and a really dumb gag involving false teeth. Kristen Chenowith is also equally wasted as a flamboyant Southern belle wedding planner who seems to be in the wrong movie. There are also a handful of subplots that go nowhere, and scenes completely irrelevant to the story that go on forever. The cheerleader's dance to Kris Kross's "Jump" is energetic, but belongs in another "Bring It On" sequel.

"You Again" is a great looking movie with likable actors in it. Unfortunately, the lead actresses are forced to act childishly, then mend their ways through fluffy speeches about family values, aided by background music borrowed from past episodes of "Full House". It could have been a memorable film, but somehow chose not to be and went the "My Best Friend's Wedding" route.

Details

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Country:

USA

Language:

English French German Spanish Hawaiian Japanese Italian Hebrew

Release Date:

24 September 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

You Again

Filming Locations:

Burbank, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,407,513, 26 September 2010

Gross USA:

$25,702,053

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$32,054,369

Company Credits

Production Co:

Touchstone Pictures, Frontier Pictures, Oops Doughnuts Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1