I got sucked into a chick-flick a few nights ago that was actually pretty hilarious. It was called "You Again", starring Kristin Bell (adorable blond who played "Elle Bishop" the evil lightning girl on "Heroes"), Jamie Lee Curtis, and Sigourney Weaver.
Bell plays "Marni", a pretty, successful businesswoman who has issues because she was an ugly duckling in high school. Her brother brings home his new fiance Joanna (uber-hot actress Odette Annable), and whaddaya know; it's Marni's old nemesis - the beautiful popular girl who tormented her to the point of misery. And to top it off, her high school enemy either does not recognize her, or is pretending not to recognize her - you don't find out until later which it is for sure, so the comedy that ensues is hilarious as the two of them spar with innuendo and passive-aggressiveness, all the while Marni is trying not to let her brother know anything is amiss.
Of course Joanna is charming and beautiful, so Marni's mother (played by Curtis), father, and little brother are about as smitten with her as her brother who is engaged to her. Marni keeps trying to dig and probe and cast doubt, and her family doesn't even recognize it. Finally her mother does sense something's wrong with Marni, and spends a chunk of the film talking Marni down from her agitated state, telling her that there's nothing wrong, that the past is the past, and that she should let it go.
Then Joanna's super-rich aunt (Sigourney Weaver) who's paying for the wedding shows up at the home to discuss wedding plans with the family, and wouldn't you know it; Weaver and Curtis were high school nemeses, and the comedy starts all over again as all four of these women spar with one another.
Not a great film by any stretch. The tidy conflict resolution at the end is way simplistic. But the comedic dialogue throughout is really good. If you enjoyed "The Birdcage" with Robin Williams for the constant double-entendre and people trying to lie their way through uncomfortable conversations in order to avoid revealing the truth, this film has a similar frenetic feel.