You Again

Touchstone Pictures

Rated PG

Running time: 105 minutes





























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Touchstone Pictures You Again is a cute film of new Public Relations Vice President Kristen Bell who, when Bell returns home, finds out that her brother is going to marry Odette Yustman - the hot woman who had bullied Bell all through high school. Bell then is on a quest to prove to her family of Yustman's sinister true character.

This is a film where just about every character has a history with every other character from their high school days, usually from dating jealousies - like Bell's mom Jamie Lee Curtis and Yustman's aunt Sigourney Weaver. It was almost over the top for me with everyone connected like that and I think the movie would have probably either played better with less character history, or have every character having a history with a high school rival. Seeing Bell's ugly duckling look in high school and going to poised, matured Vice President is an incredible transformation - and it is painful to watch Bell revert back to her high school looks due to painful circumstances that were not of her own making. I was expecting Bell to use her talents as a Public Relations person on exposing Yustman, but there was very little Public Relations as Bell lets her emotions get away from her as she tries to prove Yustman's meanness. Bell's older brother James Wolk, who is going to be married, is too good to be true. Wolk makes me want to strangle him, or have him get run over by a car as he jogs. Having the talents of Event Planner Kristin Chenoweth coaching the wedding party in song and dance almost makes this movie seem like a High School Musical. Betty White continues her long comedic career, this time as the cute grandmother.

It was great to see the rock duo Hall & Oates at the end of the movie as they basically do a video with all the characters in the movie during the end credits.

Rated PG for language. Running time 105 minutes.

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