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You Again

You Again is the latest light heated and cutely titled Disney offering. The usually stunning Kristen Bell pulls off a risky performance playing Marni who as a high schooler was unattractive and bullied and it didn’t help that her initials spell MOO. All this did not kill her and indeed made her stronger – so much so that now as a gorgeous young woman she’s on the fast track to the rarefied air above the corporate glass ceiling. Her self confidence starts to unravel when she discovers that her beloved brother Will (James Wolk) is about to marry Joanna (Odette Yustman) her hated tormentor from senior year. Worse yet Marni’s father Mark (Victor Garber) and mother Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis) feel that the sun shines from a spot on Joanne’s body that sees very little sun. That dims a bit when Joanne’s only living relative shows up and Aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver) turns out to be Gail’s high school nemesis. Joanna seems oblivious to any previous wrongdoings so Marni resigns herself to bygones until a car battle over era inappropriate music tells a different story. This leaves Marni with the dilemma of clamming up and letting her brother marry a liar or spill the beans and break his heart. Betty White as Grandma Bunny is tossed into the mix to extrapolate the comedy and usually to good effect but some of the other laughs look too staged. Then again considering the source it might be expected as we’ve seen You Again again and again from Disney. Still as a popcorn accoutrement (as aunt Ramona might say) it might suite you again.

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