You Again

14Nov10

A great film if there is nothing (and I mean not a lot left to do in the world) to do, and you have some spare time.

The tag line could be changed to “What doesn’t kill you … will return later in life and create difficult situations.”
Initially, its Kristen Bell who know-one likes at high school, finds out that her brother is going to wed the very person who made Bell’s high school life hell. The next happy meeting is when Bell’s mother (Curtis) meets Yustman’s aunt (Weaver), where you discover they were also not on good terms since high school. Then finally, Bell’s grandmother meets her nemesis. This pretty much shows if something happens to you, it will probably happen to your kids and so on.

Being a guy, you’d think I’d never watch ‘chick flicks’, but there are some pretty good ones out there to watch … this isn’t one of them though. There’s a few good (somewhat funny) moments in this film, but they don’t really make up for the large amount of randomness that happens. The storyline isn’t far off a small suggestions box contents. There are plenty of little trail-off’s to the story, there’s almost no story at all (ok, there is, but nothing worth shouting about).

For me, one of the off-putting things was that Weaver and Curtis are, well, old (nothing against being old). I can still remember watching the Alien films, and True Lies … those are the films I think these actors stood out in, so it’s almost wrong to see them as (almost) grandmothers.

But that’s just me.

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