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

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English French German Spanish Hawaiian Japanese Italian Hebrew

Release Date:

24 September 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

¡Otra vez tú!

Filming Locations:

Burbank, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,407,513, 24 September 2010, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$25,702,053

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$32,005,248

Company Credits

Production Co:

Touchstone Pictures, Frontier Pictures, Oops Doughnuts Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The four main actresses are all classic and modern scream queens: Jamie Lee Curtis for the Halloween (1978) franchise, Sigourney Weaver for the Alien (1979) franchise, Odette Annable for The Unborn (2009) & Kristen Bell for Scream 4 (2011).

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Goofs

Just after Gail drop the earring down the drain and kicks off the waste pipe to try and retrieve it causing her to get soaked, she puts the waste pipe back in place and the water immediately stops pouring even though a loose pipe is clearly usable and the waste pipe has nothing to do with water flowing to the sink.

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Quotes

Joanna: ...let's be honest, you can only run a suicide hotline so long before it starts to take its toll.
Ben: Do you still have that number ?
Gail Olsen: Ben !

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Crazy Credits

The first part of the credits is interspersed with Marni introducing the band that plays at the wedding.

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Connections

Referenced in The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Episode #7.20 (2010)

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Soundtracks

Toxic
(2003)
Written by Cathy Dennis, Henry Jonback (as Henrik Jonback), Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg
Performed by Britney Spears
Courtesy of Jive Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

User Reviews

You Again a Movie I Won't See Again

Marni (Kristen Bell), like many of the rest of us, had a tough time in high school. Among her chief tormentors was JJ (Odette Yustman), the captain of the cheerleading squad and all around snob. But Marni bucks up and uses the bullying she experienced as a goad toward achievement after graduation. Whatever her motivations, Marni's achievements can't be questioned: She's named a vice president of her public relations firm just before she heads home for her older brother's wedding.

Marni and her brother Will (Jimmy Wolk) have always been close, and she's both devastated and furious when she discovers the bride-to-be is none other than her high school nemesis who now answers to the name Joanna. Marni's mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) is sympathetic, but tells Marni that high school is in the past and she needs to move on. That advice comes easily to Gail until she discovers Joanna's Aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver) is her own high school nemesis.

Despite the happy occasion that has gathered the family together, Marni is less than thrilled. After all, JJ wasn't the best of persons in high school, and Marni can't imagine she's changed much! After an awkward reunion and family dinner, Marni and her younger brother Ben decide to do what they can to derail the nuptials.

Kristen Bell is a very pretty girl, and it couldn't have been easy to transform her into the unattractive high school geek that Marni was supposed to have been. Yet make-up artists and Bell's adoption of some less than pretty tics make you believe in the earlier version of Marni. Odette Yustman also does a good job as the pretty, popular girl whose mission in life is to make Marni miserable. Some of the movie's best moments come, though, as the result of the past and present rivalry between Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver. I'd be very surprised if the two of them had less than a ball doing their scenes together because it certainly shows on screen that way.

The story itself is relatively predictable, and the direction, while competent, is nothing special. The script is marred by moments of melodrama that undermine the otherwise marginal believability of the story, and though the actors handle their lines well, even genuine talent isn't enough to overcome some of the things they must say and do. In particular, poor Kristen Chenoweth in a role as the wedding planner—an actress I consider a truly brilliant talent—is stuck in a role where the caricature overwhelms even her formidable abilities. While Betty White (who portrays Marni's Grandma Bunny) is also silly, she, at least, gets away with it.

BOTTOM LINE: You Again is often diverting, and has enough elements of realism in it to make you recall your own high school days (for good or for ill), but it doesn't overcome the limitations imposed on it by its script, or a story that we've all frankly heard before. I was moderately entertained and mildly amused in the theatre, but when the movie was played out, I was less than fulfilled. ADDENDUM: Stay for the credits. Trust me.

POLITICAL NOTES: None.

FAMILY SUITABILITY: You Again is rated PG for "brief mild language and rude behavior." Produced by Touchstone (a Disney-owned company), the largely family-friendly fare is no real surprise. While I wouldn't recommend You Again for really young children (it's not going to hold their interest nor will they understand some of the complications that ensue from various and sundry misunderstandings or manipulations), most parents should have no problem with their tweens or teens buying a ticket.