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Metascore
28 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Negative: 14 out of 25
  1. Reviewed by: Lana Berkowitz
    75
    Among the slapstick, there are musical numbers and a few surprise cameo appearances. In the end, the film leaves you in a dance-happy mood.
  2. 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.
  3. 50
    The movie's pleasures are scant, apart from its observance of Gene Siskel's Rule of Swimming Pool Adjacency, which states that when well-dressed people are near a swimming pool, they will - yeah, you got it.
  4. 50
    You Again is at its funniest in the early scenes, when everyone is pretending all is well beneath forced smiles and plotting eyes.
  5. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    As the girl fights and rivalry play out, flashes of wit are obscured by the plot's contrivances.
  6. Weaver is a natural as the imperious Ramona, but the rest of the cast is flattened by the script, particularly White, who is just window-dressing in a movie that could use the rude humor she's displayed elsewhere.
  7. Reviewed by: Keith Staskiewicz
    50
    Yes, You Again. We've met before.
  8. 50
    Even the best performers can only do so much to elevate mediocre material. In the long run, good or bad, the material always wins.
  9. 40
    A talented cast is game, but the lazy script utterly fails them.
  10. A lot of gunk: dance-offs, sing-alongs, awkward exes, and a dirty-talking White blasting through, I'm afraid, the last bits of her novelty. That again?
  11. Bitchy cheerleaders and swimming pool catfights are just two of the tedious cliches propping up this brittle comedy.
  12. 38
    Disney's effort to turn Kristen Bell into America's Sweetheart reaches its tipping point with You Again, a flat romantic comedy that packages her in a funny setup and surrounds her with funny people.
  13. Little more than a glorified situation comedy. The problem is, it's all situation and no comedy.
  14. Has no inherent laughs, so an extremely versatile and talented cast struggles mightily to make something funny that simply isn't.
  15. 30
    Infinitely worse than you dared to hope it wouldn't be, You Again dumbfounded and then defeated me.
  16. 30
    What follows is one set piece after another in which the women make fools of themselves as the script herds them toward a happy ending of hugs and tears.
  17. 30
    The girl world found in crass comedies such as You Again, movies that reduce women to sad clichés and a uniform level of bad behavior that would appall the cast members of "Jersey Shore."
  18. Reviewed by: Andrew Barker
    30
    Manages to squander three generations of formidable actresses.
  19. An unlikable and excruciatingly unfunny comedy.
  20. Suffers from an increasingly common movie defect: appealing, sharply drawn supporting characters, and a cast of main characters that is as unlikely as it is unlikable.
  21. Reviewed by: Lisa Rosman
    20
    Since love and boys fall strictly to the side, we can't tell if this wrongheaded caper was intended as a feminist indictment of female competition or a plain old girl-fight flick.
  22. 12
    This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.
  23. 0
    You Again could be taught at film schools as an example of how not to make a movie. And how not to humiliate veteran actors.
  24. There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy.

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User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 21
  2. Negative: 7 out of 21
  1. Sadly the film has awful actors who don't have chemistry and it manages to put them all together and make a complete unfunny train wreck some people call a movie. I give this film 10%. Full Review »
  2. I Love this film, is one of the must funny movies that I can watch, for example the scene in the dance practice is very very very funny, I believe that the critics don´t be correct, this is an instantanean classic. Full Review »
  3. 3
    Let's play a game I'd like to call "Word Association:" "She's the Man," "The Game-Plan," "Race to Witch Mountain," and the made-for-tv 'Lifetime' special "Wright v. Wrong;" any reactions? Do the words brainless. emasculating, flat, pulseless, insipid, stale, dull, enervating, and cinematic decadent come to mind? If so, you might be familiar with Mr. Fickman's recent work. One of his latest being yet another Disney-rom-com-meets ABC Family-Oxygen flatliner that tries to sneak in some praise with the likes of a few veteran actresses (Weaver and Curtis-oh and who could forget Betty White). But don't get your hopes to high yet, every director has a motive, and Fickman isn't any different---these women are casted for a reason. As the film progresses (or dissipates further into fatuousness), these gals serve as the final impediment of what seems like a continuing ensemble of nails in the coffin. So, worst case scenario you see the movie to assuage your "Alien" - "True Lies" - "Golden Girls" nostalgia. As for some of the other castings---Kristen Bell in particular---acting appears almost foreign to her in this film. I don't know if she was just looking for a quick payday or what, but I haven't seen her more "out of" her character than she is in "You Again." Half-baked, unattentive, uninterested, ill-conceived delineation of a PR-promotee whose high school unfortunates come to meet her once again. The premise, although some-what intriguing at first, follows close behind the "way overdone" genres of Hollywood today, so much that one might mistaken pieces of the screenplay for another; plagarism in moviemaking is satisfactory...all right...COPY + PASTE...yes, now I have a fully-functioning 90 minute rom-com! Now, let me throw in some pathetically selected cameos, a rendition of "Glee" in a hospital, and causeless catfights and you have "You Again." Almost forgot...slapstick humor---made just for you. Verdict: bouyant, lightheartedness that fails to asservate any sort of palpable feeling or pathos; heavily reliant on drollery, slapstick, con-melodramma, and hackneyed substance. Full Review »