
As a teenager Marni (Kristen Bell) 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 Joanna (Odette Annable), 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 (James Wolk) is marrying Joanna. And he doesn't know what she did to Marni. When they meet, she wants Joanna to apologize for the way she treated he... (Full plot summary below)
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As a teenager Marni (Kristen Bell) 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 Joanna (Odette Annable), 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 (James Wolk) is marrying Joanna. And he doesn't know what she did to Marni. When they meet, she wants Joanna to apologize for the way she treated her but Joanna feigns ignorance. When Marni tells her mother, Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis), about her and Joana, Gail tells her to try and put it behind her. But when Gail meets Joana's aunt Mona (Sigourney Weaver), it turns that she's her old friend Ramona who was her best 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 rub her success in her face. When Marni learns that Joanna does remember her she sets to expose her to her brother.
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekHow bad is it? If it were a TV sitcom, it would be cancelled after a single episode. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThere is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyA formula comedy made with a defective recipe "You Again" is a complete flop. |
| Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczThe veteran actresses' easy rapport and sheer exuberance are the only real fresh spots in a story you'll recognize from a mile away. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsMatters get a little saccharine and conciliatory near the end, but so do Shakespeare's comedies. Take what you get and enjoy it. |
| New York PostLou LumenickYou Again could be taught at film schools as an example of how not to make a movie. And how not to humiliate veteran actors. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelSue PiermanFickman has a deft touch with romantic comedy, serving up deliciously combative scenes that are occasionally interspersed with bits of cheese. |
| San Francisco ChronicleLana BerkowitzAmong the slapstick, there are musical numbers and a few surprise cameo appearances. In the end, the film leaves you in a dance-happy mood. |
| Associated PressChristy LemireYou Again unfortunately perpetuates all the worst cliches about women being insecure, petty, spiteful, competitive and cruel, and it does it in the name of comedy -- which is a problem, because it's pretty much never funny. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfFickman, suggesting he might've been asleep during filming, just lets it all drone on and on, until everyone in the ensemble has a chance to damage their career....a baffling, excruciating, cancerous lump. |