Review of You Again (2010) by Olof A — 25 Feb 2011

It was just....ick. There have been some really, and I mean really, shitty comedies lately, all geared towards shock and awe. (Case in point: Betty White is everywhere) The cast of super talented people, including Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kristen Bell should have knocked this out of the park with their finely tuned comedic chops, but it just severly bombed.

Odette Yustman could not get the mean girl act down without flavoring it with cliches and boring backstory. The plot was ridiculous, as the rivalries between all these women were unfounded and not fully explained, making the interaction stale and pedestrian.

I do give props to Kyle Bornheimer as an obsessed ex, played with great timing and original acting. Also the chemistry between Bell and newcomer Sean Wing was the high point of the film. Just needed more follow through.