Quick Review: You Again **

08 November 2010 - 13:45 By Barry Ronge
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It seems that Hollywood can find no end to the farcical possibilities of a wedding.

In this lush, plush farce we have Marni (Kristen Bell), who has been working in another city but comes home to help her mother, Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis), as she plans the family wedding of her brother.

The trouble starts when she meets the bride-to-be Joanna (Odette Yustman) and realises that her sister-in-law-to-be is the malicious cheerleader who made Marni's life a misery at high school.

To make things worse, they meet the bride's aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver), who turns out to be the bitchy teen-queen who tormented Mama Gail when she was at school. To top it all off, there's Betty White, who plays the resident granny figure in any Hollywood romantic comedy.

The film looks lush and elegant because everyone is gorgeous, but the script is less so, and the relentless parade of tired wedding clichés and even wearier jokes about older women, will give you a headache that will miraculously end - right after the lights come up in the cinema.

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