You again - 2010

It wasn't bad, funny at moments and very excessive in others but all in all a nice watch. Marni (Kristen Bell) is now a beautiful woman who successfully works in public relations, but she can't forget what nightmare her high-school years were. She just got a big promotion and she's going back home because her beloved brother is getting married: everything's great until she learns that Joanna (Odette Annable) her future sister-in-law, is the same JJ that tormented her in high school, the bully that made her every day a nightmare. She can't say a word because all her family loves her, but she can't get it out of her head. Joanna seems not to have recognized her, but it'll soon be clear that she did.
 When finally Marni confronts her Joanna refuses to apologize, she only threatens her to keep her silent: 'who will they believe, me or you?' (more or less) so it's war between them.
Not just that, Marni has parents: dad Mark (Victor Garber) but most of all mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) who was popular and happy in high school,  but at the prom her friendship with her best friend ended and she never understood why (come on!! seriously?!?). Joanna doesn't have parents, they died years ago, her only family is her aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver) who.. surprise! is Gail's ex-best friend, and they appear to be very competitive.
Again, nobody else knows about it, the competition is rather subtle, or rather Gail appears to be the competitive one, actually, and Ramona appears to come out 'the winner' every time.
There's also Betty White playing the funny grandma, and Marni is jealous of her as she is of her dog, she feels like Joanna has taken her place.
I didn't like at all the Georgia-scenes (Kristin Chenoweth), they were excessive and I don't like that.
Will (James Wolk) is Marni's brother, and he's just the usual perfect guy found only in certain movies. He's cute and nice, such a good man and with a good job (he's a lawyer, which should contradict what I said above, but not in this movie). His friend Charlie is nice and cute, but with very little space because Marni's attention is all on Joanna, and romance will have to wait.
Tim (Kyle Bornheimer) is Joanna's ex-boyfriend who will give such an awkward speech at their party before the wedding that he made me forget Marni's plan. I don't like that kind of long, awkward speeches.
Marni had retrieved the 'time capsule' of her school, and now she shows that video at the party. Hell breaks loose. Everyone sees teenage Joanna speak and act like the bully she was and Will can't believe she lied to him like she did. At the final showdown, Marni has a fight with her while Gail has a conciliation with Ramona. It appears that Ramona was 'the good one' here. At school all the glory and attention were for Gail but they were best friends anyway, until Gail won once too much. She went to the prom with the boy that Ramona liked, and I agree with her: IF Gail knew that she liked him, the answer 'he asked me' is not good. She should have said no, she didn't care for him and she betrayed her friend. Anyway, they make peace.
Marni will only make peace with Joanna that night, when she'll find her in her kitchen wearing her wedding dress and eating out of desperation. I'm not decided if I find the whole scene 'Joanna don't do it, put down that cheese' is funny or stupid, probably both :-p but Joanna saying there's no more reason for her to be pretty since she'll never get married is both understandable (she's desperate because she's lost the man she really loves) and sad (a girl should be pretty to her own eyes for herself, not for men). Of course it'll all go well. They make peace and Joanna truly apologizes for what she was in high school, and Marni talks to his brother so he goes back to Joanna.
Unfortunately there's a little accident when they fall down from the house on the tree and they end up in a hospital with an arm (Joanna) and a leg (Will) broken. They should postpone the wedding, and they really should have, instead they get married anyway in the hospital (organizing everything in a few hours! did they find a magic wand or what?!?)
I didn't like the wedding nor I liked the ball afterwards. I understand that the important is for them to be together, not the fancy party, blah blah blah, but it's also true that there was no rush, it's not like they had a deadline or 'if we miss this Sunday we'll have to wait a year' kind of thing, no, why the rush?
I also didn't like the scene in Ramona's hotel, when Gail appears (to make peace or something??) but in the bathroom she makes a mess. She almost loses one of Ramona's precious earrings and ends up tearing her dress apart, and I didn't like their showing up at the party with the same dress (coincidence or not? how could Ramona know what dress had Gail chosen?) Also it was not the right dress for Gail.
I liked that Marni never backed down, because things like that when you're a teenager deeply hurt and can't be forgotten easily.
A scene I despised was when Gail makes Ramona meet Richie, they boy who took her to the prom. Point one: she just learned about that and to make amends she rushed to call him? Point two:they were in high school and now they are adults, many years went by and things/people change, what was she thinking of accomplishing? It's an embarrassing scene. Should I believe that she's twice divorced because she didn't go to the prom with Richie and now they'll be happy together? That's stupid. Possible, yes, everything's possible, but to assume it will be necessarily so is stupid.
I must admit I liked this Odette Annable, I didn't know her at all but she was alright. Not only she looked stunningly beautiful (not an uncommon thing for a young actress) but she played well both the bully and the saint (truth is in the middle, as it so often is).
A scene I loved, my favourite scene actually, is the one on the plane, when Marni has just learned Joanna's identity and goes crazy so security has to restrain her and the security man is played by Dwayne Johnson who is very funny, and they sit together (because he has to keep her under control) so he listens with interest to all her story :lol: That was definitely my favourite scene, I loved it :lol: :p

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