You Again English Comedy movie 2010
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Cast and Crew
Cast: Kristen Bell as Marni,
Sigourney Weaver as Aunt Ramona,
Kristin Chenoweth as Monique Leroux
Director: Andy Fickman
Producer: Andy Fickman, John J Strauss, Eric Tannenbaum
Music Director: Nathan Wang
Release Date: 24 Sep 2010
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
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The Story:
You Again is a comedy film. A young woman, Marni (Kristen Bell), discovers her brother, Will (Jimmy Wolk), is about to marry the girl, Joanna (Odette Yustman), who bullied her in high school and Marni sets out to expose the fiancee’s true colors.
The plot thickens when Marni’s mother Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis) meets up with Joanna’s aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver) and it is revealed that Gail and Ramona were also high school rivals. Successful PR pro Marni (Kristen Bell) heads home for her older brother’s (Jimmy Wolk) wedding and discovers that he’s marrying her high school arch nemesis (Odette Yustman), who’s conveniently forgotten their problematic past. Then the bride’s jet-setting aunt (Sigourney Weaver) bursts in and Marni’s not-so-jet-setting mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes face to face with her own high school rival. The claws come out and old wounds are opened in this crazy comedy that proves that not all rivalries are forever.A high-powered PR professional discovers that her brother is about to marry the woman who made her high school life a living hell in this comedy starring Kristen Bell and Odette Yustman. Back in her teens, Marni (Bell) was a little awkward. These days she’s a successful career woman, but the memories of being tormented by popular cheerleader Joanna (Yustman) still make her break into a cold sweat. Flying home for her brother’s Will’s wedding, Marni realizes to her horror that she will soon be sister-in-law to the pompon-wielding mean girl who once humiliated her in front of the entire student body. And apparently her nemesis learned from the best, because back when Marni’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) was in high school, Joanna’s mom (Sigourney Weaver) served up the same kind of treatment. Now that they’re about to become family, Marni and her mom do their best to let bygones be bygones. But old grudges die hard, and by the time the wedding bells chime, these old foes will already have some saucy stories to share with their grandchildren. – Jason Buchanan, Rovi...
You Again Movie Review:
Sigourney Weaver, for example, can be a deft, loose-limbed comedian if a movie gives her something to do. “You Again” doesn’t. It also reduces Jamie Lee Curtis to a matronly moron, Kristin Chenoweth to a screeching caricature and Victor Garber to window dressing.
Oh, and Betty White is dragged in to play a spunky grandmother because — well, it’s the law. Any comedy with a spunky grandmother has to hire Betty White.“You Again” wastes these people because it concentrates all its attention on the relentlessly one-note Kristen Bell as the annoying yet meant-to-be ingratiating heroine.
Once, you see, she was an ugly duckling, a high school nerd and bullies’ bull’s-eye — until, she tells us, she learned to “believe in herself,” ditched the bangs and got a job as a celebrity publicist.
True personal growth — it’s as close as Supercuts.
Alas, once Bell returns home for her brother’s wedding, she discovers he’s marrying the chief mean girl from senior year! Meanwhile, the girl’s aunt turns out to be Bell’s mom’s own bête noire! And as for Grandma . . .
Oh, who cares?
So why does the movie get even one star? Well, because of Kyle Bornheimer, a character actor who has the part of the mean girl’s ex-boyfriend.
He finds funny ways to say lines that aren’t particularly funny; he invests hackneyed scenes with real emotion. If there are any smiles in the movie, they’re due to him.
They’re not due, sadly, to Curtis, who — game as ever — does high kicks, pratfalls and other stunts. At one point she even takes apart the plumbing, going through all the mess in hopes of finding one tiny, mislaid valuable.
Perhaps she should have asked Bornheimer for pointers.Cute people getting mired in a cute situation? Good. Cute situation getting mired in unimaginative slapstick? Not so much. This is yet another one of those movies about characters who have clearly never watched a romantic comedy. If they had, they would know that: trying to break up a loved one’s wedding two days before it is scheduled is not a great idea (“My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “Made of Honor,” etc.). You only embarrass yourself by showing embarrassing footage of the bride at the rehearsal dinner (“27 Dresses”). Wandering off by yourself on a visit to the prospective in-laws often results in getting wet and ruining property (“Father of the Bride”). Taking a wedding-related movie down to a PG instead of a PG-13 is usually a sign that the studio does not have much confidence in it (“Bride Wars”) because the script is weak. The characters in this movie are the only ones on earth who haven’t been there, seen that.
It is a cute situation. Marni (Kristen with an “e” Bell) is a smooth, capable, professional woman who is proud of triumphing over her teenage years as an ugly duckling, constantly abused by the mean girls led by head cheerleader J.J. (Odette Yustman). Her comfort during those years was her golden boy brother Will. Now Will is getting married to none other than Joanna, formerly known as J.J. The calm, professional Marni instantly reverts to a cowering mess, and then things really get complicated. It turns out Joanna’s only family is her aunt Mona (Sigourney Weaver), who is none other than the former BFF-turned WFF of Gail (Jamie Leigh Curtis), mother of the groom — and of course of Marni as well. Add to the mix a wedding planner (Kristin with an “i” Chenoweth), the bride’s ex-beau, a wise-cracking granny (Betty White, of course), a dance-off, a fluffy dog, and a dad who eats his meals blindfolded (okay, that one I didn’t see coming), and you have pieces that never quite work.
Just to see the glass as half-full for a moment, I’ll point out that this movie does not have a big but highly touchy client who gets caught up in the chaos or a child to spout out-of-the-mouths-of-babes wisdom. There are no funny clergy. There are a couple of genuinely welcome surprise cameos. Weaver and Curtis do their best to elevate the material and sometimes succeed.
On the glass half-empty side, there is an icky dentures joke. Serious injuries are dismissed as blithely as are serious infractions of trust and good judgment. It is under-written, running out of steam — and ideas — long before it is over. Ultimately, there’s too much com and not enough rom.
Parents should know that there is some mild language and a lot of slapstick violence with broken bones and alcohol consumption.
Family discussion: What can kids, schools, and parents do about bullies? Can you be a bully without knowing it? What is the best way to show you are sorry for treating someone badly?
If you like this, try: “Never Been Kissed” and “Freaky Friday”
In “You Again,’’ Kristen Bell and Odette Yustman play Marni and Joanna, old high-school classmates. Joanna used to bully Marni. Years later Marni is shocked to discover that Joanna is marrying Marni’s brother, Will (James Wolk). Everyone loves Joanna, including the mother of the groom, Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis), who tells Marni that the past is the past. But no sooner does she finish that line than the doorbell rings and in walks Joanna’s Aunt Mona (Sigourney Weaver), Gail’s former best frenemy from the same high-school that Marni and Joanna attended.This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.
The inexplicable handheld camerawork gives you that “Saw IV’’ feeling. But lest we think “You Again’’ is a horror film, there’s a ubiquitous, sickeningly sweet score; it’s like toilet paper on the shoe of every scene. The entire cast has been encouraged to shout or pop their eyes or kick really high. We’re in the presence of former cheerleaders. Accordingly, the director Andy Fickman’s instruction to his cast appears to have been, “Pretend you’re at the Fiesta Bowl!’’
Highlights of the movie’s wedding weekend include a dance fight, a plate fight, and a pool fight. When one set of enemies manages to bury the hatchet, it’s with each woman slumped in front of an open refrigerator. Mascara stains the face. Cheese is sprayed onto an Oreo cookie. (That’s two apt metaphors for this movie.) At some point the word “culinary’’ is pronounced “killonary,’’ and the opening jags of Heart’s “Barracuda’’ are misapprehended for the purposes of conjuring cattiness.
There can be amusement in junk about women who set out to conquer each other over past humiliations, often, if not quite always, regarding a man: “The First Wives Club,’’ “Death Becomes Her,’’ “Drop Dead Gorgeous,’’ “Notes on a Scandal.’’ “You Again,’’ like last year’s “Bride Wars,’’ is an especially atrocious exception. The movie doesn’t hate women as much as it hates comedy. Fickman and the screenwriter Moe Jelline were never going for realism. But what precisely were they going for? It’s hard to think of a network that would pick up a half-hour version of this. Only by accident do the filmmakers wind up with farce. There’s really nowhere else for a badly made movie to go....
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