You Again

My deepest apologies for being away so long, but sometimes life gets in the way. Now that things are back to normal, can somebody get Kristen Bell a decent movie role? In You Again she plays a high school loser turned successful PR exec named Marni who comes home for her brother's (James Wolk) wedding to discover his fiance Joanna (Odette Yustman) is the same girl who terrorized her in high school. The extent to which Marni is willing to take revenge on her former rival and the repercussions of those actions are the rest of the story. It's amusing to watch the mishaps pile up as Marni is physically transformed back into her pimply high school self with bad haircut to match, but Joanna isn't an interesting enough rival and there's a parallel relationship between Marni's mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Joanna's aunt (Sigourney Weaver). Bell dances, runs, and fights with the awkwardness of a woman who still doesn't entirely trust herself, but You Again is happy to smooth over the rough spots.