You Again: Critic Reviews

The veteran actresses' easy rapport and sheer exuberance are the only real fresh spots in a story you'll recognize from a mile away.

There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy.

A clever, perhaps even brilliant idea for a black comedy has here been slathered and stifled in a thick treacly layer of Disney-sentimental gloop.

This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.

A frothy end-of-summer treat.

So totally, inanely, numbingly awful is the DOA comedy You Again that you can actually see A-list performers like Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristin Chenoweth flailing through every scene...

The movie is so laboriously contrived in every atom of its being that the only interest is in seeing if the characters can avoid the destinies decreed for them by ancient formulas.

Betty White, playing yet another dirty old lady, hardly elevates the proceedings, in which otherwise reasonable women settle petty scores by flinging pea soup and chinaware.

What a waste of talented actresses.

Relentlessly shrill and awkward.

There are no surprises here, just a by-the-numbers comedy that's better, and funnier, than it has a right to be, thanks to the efforts of the actors in it.

Those bemoaning the lack of quality female roles in modern-day Hollywood will find a key cause celebre in You Again, which manages to squander three generations of formidable actresses.

Such a stinker that the only way to improve it would be for Disney to run the negative and all of the prints through an industrial shredder.

What's it say about your movie when even Betty White can't find a decent laugh?

A laugh-free script that's underscored by a nasty mean streak...

An extremely versatile and talented cast struggles mightily to make something funny that simply isn't.

You Again unfortunately perpetuates all the worst cliches about women being insecure, petty, spiteful, competitive and cruel, and it does it in the name of comedy -- which is a problem, because it's pretty much never funny.

How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. This is an epic failure on every level.

A parallel track for two generations of women to play out petty grudges and pratfall their way through the mud and muck to the inevitable group hug.

Like staring at whorehouse wallpaper: it's sort of interesting, but you have a strong feeling you might be wasting your time. [Blu-ray]

All soft furnishings and gleaming teeth, it's inoffensive, made for in-flight viewing...

You Again may have some very experienced faces in the cast, but the end product still turns out to be disappointingly cliched and trite.

Joining the rank ranks of The Hottie And The Nottie, Gigli, Licence To Wed and any film where Matthew McConaughey gets his groove on with a girl is yet another unspeakably awful rom-com.

In this ditzy whirl nothing is pushed too far -- the bad aren't really bad, they're all sorry. And the assumption that high school is where it all happens is ringingly endorsed.