{"id":4324,"date":"2016-11-04T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:16:26","slug":"you-again-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"You Again-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Again-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Andy Fickman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #510<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70127239.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4325\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70127239-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70127239\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70127239-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70127239.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed November 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If not for the cast (Jamie Lee Curtis, Betty White, and Sigourney Weaver), You Again (2010) would have been a bad experience and a dimwitted, by-the-numbers comedy.<\/p>\n<p>But the talent involved has helped matters greatly.<\/p>\n<p>This is not meant to give the film much credit.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, it is not a great film, and quite silly and dumb, but the cast successfully turns it into a light, fun, dumb movie instead of solely drivel. With a less likable cast, this would undoubtedly have been the case.<\/p>\n<p>Bell is not my favorite actress, but alas, she seems to be getting star turns in these types of films.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is basic and tried and true- a twenty-eight-year-old &#8220;beautiful&#8221; woman (Kristen Bell) who was an ugly duckling in high school returns to her hometown for her brother&#8217;s wedding, and his fianc\u00e9 turns out to be her high school nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>It is a standard Hollywood comedy clich\u00e9, with typical gags and a &#8220;we have seen this before&#8221; story.<\/p>\n<p>A gripe: Kristen Bell is a cute, all-American girl-next-door, but I would be remiss not to point out that she is not the beauty they make her out to be.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the aforementioned cast and the wit that Curtis and Weaver bring to their rivalry (as mothers of the respective fianc\u00e9s and Bell&#8217;s character- they were high school rivals a generation before), You Again (2010) does get some meager credit.<\/p>\n<p>Not much, but some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Again-2010 Director Andy Fickman Starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver Scott&#8217;s Review #510 Reviewed November 4, 2016 Grade: C If not for the cast (Jamie Lee Curtis, Betty White, and Sigourney Weaver), You Again (2010) would have been a bad experience and a dimwitted, by-the-numbers comedy. But the talent involved has helped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Again-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,49,11639],"tags":[3111,3113,12467,3116,914,3118,3115,12466,1135,3117,3112,3114,12468,12465,12469,6090,1160,9611],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-comedies","category-screwball-comedy","tag-andy-fickman","tag-betty-white","tag-billy-unger","tag-catherine-bach","tag-cloris-leachman","tag-daryl-hall","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-james-wolk","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-john-oates","tag-kristen-bell","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-kyle-bornheimer","tag-odette-annable","tag-patrick-duffy","tag-reginald-veljohnson","tag-sigourney-weaver","tag-victor-garber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24141,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/24141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}