THE PLOT THUS FAR
When a young woman realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée’s true colors.
WHAT WE THOUGHT
You Again is a comedy that explores just that, where Kristin Bell’s Marni, who had spent her entire high school life under the bullying radar of Joanna, realizes her one time nemesis is poised to become her sister-in-law. So the question now is, do you intervene at this juncture to throw the wedding off by telling everyone what a mean person she is, or do you adopt the forgive and forget approach?
As humans, the latter is always a challenge, and the former opportunity just too great to pass up, now being in the position to memorably derail someone else’s marriage plans, even if it means having to unintentionally hurt one’s family member as a collateral. It’s revenge of the nerd, bitchy cat-fight style, made worse when one doesn’t acknowledge the past in the hopes of starting a relationship afresh, which is not what the other party would desire, setting up a series of sequences that are played out for laughs, even though they are as predictable as they come in making life miserable for others.
But it’s the idea and the thought behind the film that seems a little bit more interesting, as it’s really quite relatable since in life we do step on the toes of others, as do others on ours as well. It’s what you do with being emotionally terrorized that matters, and the best effect is to turn that into positive energy to transform oneself for the better, rather than to keep on regretting and wanting to right the wrongs, but not sure how to go about doing so. The advice of course is to champion oneself to be better rather than to focus on destroying the other party and before you know it, you become what and who you despise.
The Blu-Ray comes with the Blu-Ray and bonus DVD copy. You also get a ton of deleted scenes, bloopers and special interview segments from Funny or Die. Director Andy Flickman guides you through the production, but he can be bothered to sit down and record a commentary. The A/V Quality is superb with a 1080p transfer that makes a lackluster romantic comedy look amazing. Add onto that, an overpowering DTS-HD 5.1 master audio that made me think I was going to go deaf during the various back-stabbing pranks. I’d recommend a rental for everyone that has to entertain a lady friend during the upcoming Valentine Day’s weekend.
RELEASE DATE: 02/08/2011
