You Again

Released: 2010
Comedy
Starring: Kristen Bell, Odette Annable, Sigourney Weaver, Betty White, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: Andy Fickman
Running Time: 105 minutes
Rated: PG

The breakdown: Old high school enemies meet up again years later and are about to become in-laws.

This movie was better than I thought it was going to be, but not as good as some others in the same vein.  The movie is peppered with awkward singing moments by people who cannot sing and bizarre annoying characters.  Sometimes it's very hard to get through an uncomfortable scene (thank goodness for fast forwarding on my DVR!) 
This blonde girl is tortured as a geeky teenager in high school by the popular crowd.  She's always getting humiliated even though her older brother is very popular at the same school.  Years later after graduation she is a successful career woman and is coming back home to attend her brother's wedding.  It turns out, he's marrying the leader of the mean popular girls from high school.  When the girls meet face to face once again the mean girl pretends not to remember her.  The blonde is a bit underwhelmed and insulted that the mean girl does not remember torturing her or making her life a living hell for years during school.  Eventually the truth comes out and the girls have a big fight.  The brunette remembered her all along and didn't want the geeky girls brother to know what a terrible person she used to be.  The blonde lets her big brother know the truth about the woman he's about to marry in a very big embarrassing way at the rehearsal dinner.  The wedding is off and the big brother is furious with both his girlfriend and his sister.  In the meantime one of the boys that the blonde always had a crush on is back for the wedding as well and he seems not to have forgotten her.  She's oblivious and doesn't notice her opportunity for romance.  In the end the girls become friends and the wedding goes on.  The thing is, you don't really care about the characters and you're not emotionally invested in them or the story.  The one thing that was interesting was the very small sub-plot of the blonde and her high school crush getting together.  That was pretty intriguing but they missed the opportunity of it by not developing it more.

I give it only 2 out of 5 stars for creating lack luster main characters and not taking advantage of a possible good sub-plot of old high school flames reigniting.