HYPOCRITE ALERT! Despite the fact that I'm a movie critic, I don't put much credence in what movie critics have to say. Why? I feel that far too many of them have a personal agenda and are not truly honest in their reviews. Just visit rottentomatoes.com and see how many mainstream comedies have very low scores. I often watch these movies, find them mildly amusing and wonder, "What did these critics expect?" While they're not art, most of these movies do their job and shouldn't be persecuted. However, there is an exception to every rule and some of those movies do deserve their low scores. You Again is a prime example.

Kristen Bell stars in You Again as Marni Olivia Olsen (check those initials), a young woman who was very awkward in high school and was constantly tormented by head cheerleader J.J. (Odette Yustman). Now grown up, Marni has changed her look and she's a successful PR rep in Los Angeles. She flies home for her brother Will's (Jimmy Wolk) wedding. However, she nearly has a breakdown when she learns that Will's fiance, who goes by Joanna is actually J.J. Arriving home, Marni finds that her parents, Gail (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Mark (Victor Garber), as well as her little brother, Ben (Billy Unger), have accepted Joanna and don't understand Marni's consternation. When Marni and Joanna finally meet, Joanna claims that she doesn't remember Marni, which only angers Marni further. However, things get even rockier when Gail realizes that Joanna's Aunt Ramona (Sigourney Weaver) is her old rival from high school. Feeling that Joanna and her family are bad news, Marni makes it her mission to make Will see the truth.

OK, if we're going to talk about You Again, we should start off with the positive. No matter what your status was in high school, I think that most of us had that person that we simply didn't like -- Be it a tormentor, as seen in the movie, a rival (academically or athletically), or someone who was simply annoying. So, the idea of how horrible it would seem to have that person marry into your family is a good one. You Again marks the feature film debut for writer Moe Jelline, and they have certainly struck upon a great central idea for a movie. Unfortunately, once it moves beyond this, the movie falls apart.

I don't go into movies like You Again looking for realism or common sense, but this movie asks us to suspend our disbelief far too early and far too often. First of all, apparently everyone in the movie has some sort of brain disorder, as none of them remember anyone from their past. Then, we asked to buy the coincidence that not are Marni and Joanna old rivals, but Gail and Ramona are as well. And Will and Mark are simply oblivious to all of this, because men clearly don't notice things. Despite the fact that Marni was clearly scarred by her high school experience, no one really takes that seriously here. Wouldn't Gail and Mark have lived through these times? And then there's one of my favorite Hollywood oddities -- when a couple who is clearly in their 50s have a child who is around 10. (I know that this happens in real-life, but Ben's name may as well have been "unplanned".)

I usually find something to like on movies like You Again, and this typically comes in the guise of a quirky side-character. However, this movie is a mess from the get-go and I found myself struggling through it. When I had to take a break and then rejoin the film, the title was uttered over and over.

You Again has a good cameo in the first five minutes and then goes downhill after that on Blu-ray Disc courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. The film has been letterboxed at 2.35:1 and the Disc contains an AVC 1080p HD transfer which runs at an average of 32 Mbps. The image is very sharp and clear, showing no overt grain and no defects from the source material. The picture shows a nice crispness, which gives it good depth. However, I did note that the detail was a bit lacking. The colors, which lean towards the brighter tones, look great and the image is never overly bright or dark. The Disc carries a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track which runs at 48 kHz and an average of 4.0 Mbps. The track provides clear dialogue and sound effects. Being a rom-com, there aren't an abundance of dynamic effects, but the music sounds great, especially the rehearsal dinner scene. The opening basketball game scene provides nice surround effects from the crowd.

The You Again Blu-ray Disc carries a few extra features. "Following Fickman: On Set with the Director" (7 minutes) is made up of a lot of "fly on the wall" on-set video and some comments from the crew jokingly discussing Fickman. We also get comments from the director himself. This isn't a serious piece and we don't learn anything about the movie here. "Blooper Dance Party" is a 5-minute gag reel. "Ask the Cast" (82 seconds) is one of those fluff Disney Channel pieces where Curtis, White, Weaver, and Bell answer "viewer mail". "Funny or Die" is a 3-minute video which I assume was featured on Will Ferrell's comedy website. As it's not funny, I guess that someone should die. The Disc contains eleven DELETED SCENES which run about 21 minutes and can be viewed with commentary from Fickman. Most of these are simply extra moments from scenes in the existing movie. And you know that anything cut out of this movie is comedy gold! Seriously, there are few new moments here, and the ones that are only tell us things which we already know.