You Again

 Released Year: 2010

Directed by Andy Fickman

Casted by:

Kristen Bell as Marni Olivia Olsen

Jamie Lee Curtis as Gail Byer Olsen

Sigourney Weaver as Ramona "Mona" Clark

Odette Yustman as Joanna "J-J" Clark

James Wolk as Will Olsen

Victor Garber as Mark Olsen

Betty White as Grandma Bunny

Billy Unger as Ben Olsen

Sean Wing as Charlie Mason

Kristin Chenoweth as Georgia King

 Story:

In 2002 Marni is an acne-riddled high school sophomore at Ridgefield High School, with glasses and braces, making a video about how much she hates high school, and reveals how she is tormented and bullied by other children, specifically J-J, who made Marni's high school life miserable. She adds that her protective older brother, Will, was very popular as a handsome basketball player. However, at a very important basketball game, J-J pushes the mascot (Marni), who runs into Will, resulting in a loss of the game.

Years later, in 2010, she is a successful public relations executive, recently promoted to a job in New York. When she flies home to her older brother's wedding, she discovers that Will is about to marry a girl named Joanna, who happens to be J-J. When Marni meets Joanna for the first time in eight years, Joanna seems to not recognize her. Marni is also upset to see that Joanna fits in very well with the family. The plot thickens when Marni's mother Gail meets up with Joanna's aunt Ramona, Gail's former best friend who pushed her into a pool at their senior prom. Ramona is now a successful, wealthy woman who owns several hotels and a private plane.

Although Gail seems willing to put the past behind her, she still feels the need to "outdo" Ramona during their interactions together. On the other hand, Marni is unwilling to forget the things Joanna did to her in high school, unless she apologizes, and decides to try to let her brother know of Joanna's bullying past. Her attempts to get Will alone for a conversation fail. When Marni tells Joanna that she knows who she really is, it is obvious that Joanna remembers Marni. She refuses to give Marni a meaningful apology, and treats her disrespectfully, leaving Marni convinced that Joanna has not changed. Meanwhile, Gail comes to Ramona's hotel room for "closure" about anything bad between them that happened in the past. They appear to make up, but Ramona still seems not to be too fond of Gail.

One day on the street, Will and Marni's grandmother Bunny meets a man named Tim. Joanna reveals that they have dated, and Tim appears devastated when he hears that she's marrying Will. Marni decides to bring Tim to the rehearsal dinner as part of her plan to stop the wedding. When it is time for guests to make a toast to the bride and groom, Tim unexpectedly jumps up to give his toast to Joanna. He reveals to a stunned wedding party that Joanna left him at the altar. Later, a video is presented (recovered by Marni) from their old high school time capsule. The video reveals Joanna as she was in high school: an alpha-female bully, with the footage showing proof of her tormenting Marni and other students. However, Will unplugs the video projector before the video is complete and walks out, furious.

Marni is in trouble when everyone discovers that she was responsible for the video at the rehearsal dinner. Joanna's defense for pretending not to remember Marni is: "I thought we could start over." Marni is now convinced that Joanna hasn't changed, and walks away. Joanna then starts a fight with Marni, who fights back. Will walks in and witnesses the fight. He confronts Joanna, calling her a bully and a liar and then scolds Marni for starting the mess behind his back. Joanna tries to reason with Will but he doesn't care about her past and is furious that she lied to him.

Meanwhile, Ramona and Gail argue after the rehearsal dinner, and Ramona accuses Gail of trying to ruin her life throughout high school. A catfight ensues, with both of them falling into the pool. Ramona reveals that she had a grudge with Gail, even when they were best friends, because she always competed with and outdid her, culminating with Gail taking the boy that Ramona wanted to the prom. Ramona stated that Gail was already a legendary head cheerleader and prom queen, and drama was supposed to be hers, yet Gail also defeated her with the auditions. She sarcastically thanks Gail for what she did, because it motivated her to become successful in life. Gail apologizes for being insensitive, but reveals that she is proud of Ramona, and that her loving family is her accomplishment. Ramona, remorseful of her actions, tells Gail that she was jealous of Gail's happy family especially that her marriages didn't work out, and feared that Gail was trying to take Joanna away from her. The two are hugging in the pool when Gail's husband, Mark, shows up. At home, he says that he is disgusted with the wedding and weekend being a disaster and grounds Marni and Gail.

Later that night, Marni finds Joanna in the kitchen binging on junk food. She finally admits to Marni that she feels truly awful for bullying and tormenting her and feels like a terrible person, and that she loves Will and his entire family. She explained that when she found out that Marni is her fiance's sister, she panicked and therefore decided to pretend not to remember her. Marni forgives her and promises to get them back together. The next day, during a jog, Marni apologizes to Will for her actions, saying she was only trying to protect him.

Joanna and Will reconcile in the family's old tree house, but it collapses and injures both of them when Marni and Will's little brother, Ben, loosened the screws as a part of his plan in hiding the tree house. They are both forced to stay at a hospital, which delays the wedding. However, Marni puts together a makeshift wedding at the hospital, with the bride and groom bandaged, but properly dressed and able to walk down the aisle. Gail has a surprise for Ramona, it's Richie Phillips, the boy from high school that Ramona wanted to go to the prom with. Richie welcomes Ramona home and wants to be her date for the wedding, which makes Ramona very happy and they appear to start a relationship. Marni appears to start a relationship with Charlie (Sean Wing), her brother's best friend who has always been kind to her. Joanna introduces Marni's grandmother Bunny to an elderly woman, Helen Sullivan. It is revealed that Helen and Bunny were rivals in high school when Helen stole a boy from her. However, Bunny gets her revenge when she cuts in on Helen's dance and takes her partner.

During the credits, at the wedding reception, Marni presents her wedding gift to Will and Joanna—Hall & Oates in person performing Will and Joanna's favorite and special song, "Kiss on My List" (as the movie's couples, each share kisses—Will and Joanna, Marni and Charlie, Gail and Mark, Ramona and Richie, and Georgia forces a kiss from Tim). Everyone then joins Hall & Oates on stage.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment: 

This is a very fun movie to watch. At first I thought the story will go between the 2 young ladies, but who knows their mother and aunty are involved in it as well... Seldom see Sigourney on a comedy... She's not bad, as good as those action movie she is in :)

Lake Placid

 Released Year: 1999

Directed by Steve Miner

Casted by:

Bill Pullman as Jack Wells
Bridget Fonda as Kelly Scott
Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr
Brendan Gleeson as Sheriff Hank Keough
Betty White as Mrs. Delores Bickerman

 Story:

 A marine fish and game officer is scuba-diving in Michael Kane Lake, Aroostook County, Maine, when he is savagely attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in the water. A tooth is found in the diver's remains and, as it appears to be a prehistoric fossil, a request is made for assistance to the Natural History Museum in New York City. Paleontologist Kelly Scott gets this job.

Upon arriving in Maine, Kelly informs Fish and Game officer Jack Wells and Sheriff Hank Keough that the tooth appears to be reptilian in nature, and is not a fossil, but something much more recent. They meet Delores Bickerman, one of few people living on the lake, who claims that she killed her husband when asked how he died.

Later, a helicopter arrives at the camp. Hector Cyr is an eccentric mythology professor and crocodile enthusiast who believes that the creature behind the attacks is indeed a crocodile. While the four are exploring the lake, the creature is shown settling under Kelly and Hank's canoe. Hector's radar begins to pulsate as Kelly and Hank are thrown off their canoe and into the water, but survive. They then find a severed toe of another man, as well as a severed Moose head.

The next day, Jack and Hector go diving in the lake to find the creature. A speaker producing the sound of baby crocs in distress is placed in the water. The creature is shown sneaking up on them. It pulls the boat anchor, but Hank orders his deputy, Burke, to cut the anchor cable, and the boat escapes. While removing the speaker, Burke is attacked by the creature and his head is bitten off.

Hank blames himself for the deputy's death. Hector's attempts to console him backfire and they get into a fight. During the brawl, Hank chases Hector to the lakeside and as the others follow, a grizzly bear appears. Suddenly a giant saltwater crocodile leaps out of the water and drags the bear into the lake. Jack, Kelly, and Hank visit Delores again and, after finding a mans severed head, find her feeding the crocodile with a blindfolded cow. Delores reveals to have been feeding the crocodile for six years after it followed her husband home and killed him. She is placed under house arrest for not telling the police what she knew when they visited her before.

Hector decides to take one of Hank's deputies on a trip in the helicopter, and lands the helicopter in the cove where the crocodile lives. While he is diving, it attacks him, but he escapes. Jack and Hank plan to allow Florida Fish and Game to kill the crocodile when they arrive, but Hector suggests instead that he lure it out of the water and drug it. Jack reluctantly accepts the proposal and they use one of Delores' cows, dangled from the helicopter, as bait. After a few hours, the crocodile turns up and lunges at the cow. Hector pulls up, loses the cow, and crashes the helicopter into the lake. The crocodile comes on land and attacks Jack and Kelly. Kelly is knocked into the lake but makes it to the helicopter just in time.

Despite Hector and Kelly's protests to let the animal live, Jack grabs a gun and shoots it, but the gun is revealed to be a tranquilizer rifle. As Hector comes out of the water, a second crocodile attacks him, but Hank blows it up with his grenade launcher. Florida Fish and Game arrive seconds later. They load the crocodile on a truck and take it to Portland, Maine until they can figure out what to do with it. The last scene shows Delores feeding bread crumbs to many baby crocodiles, implying the two adults were a mating pair. During the end credits, the surviving adult crocodile is seen tied to the back of a flat-bed truck, speeding down a road.

L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, it just a normal & ordinary movie for me. The croc is kinda huge and scary though, but the storyline is really bit too predictable. But i admire the technique how they film this movie during 1999, the graphic wise is very well done either :)

The Proposal

Released Year: 2009

Directed by Anne Fletcher

Casted by:
Sandra Bullock as Margaret Tate
Ryan Reynolds as Andrew Paxton
Story:

Margaret Tate is a bossy and bitchy boss who is dislike by all her worker including her personal assistant Andrew Paxton. Margaret faced her visa problem and might be deport back to her own country, Canada. Due to the sudden change, she force Andrew to marry her. Andrew agreed on the condition that Margaret will have to promote his as the chief editor of the book publishing company.

During their interview on the migration, they make promise will announce their marriage to Paxton's in Sitka, Alaska. Margaret followed Andrew all the way back and only found out that Paxton has a huge family business in Alaska, but Andrew did not show it at all. They attend a surprise family party arranged by Paxton and Andrew announced their marriage.

On one morning, the family request them to marry on the same week. Paxton's ladies were busying preparing the wedding and Margaret follow Andrew's mother (Grace) and granny (Annie) around to try on her wedding dress and later on she was brought to see a tiger show. In the meanwhile, Andrew is happy to meet his ex girlfriend, Gerthy. Being an orphan, Margaret felt a sudden warm from the Paxton of taking care of her and she even do the happy chant with Annie in the woods.

The immigration officer, Gilbertson called up Andrew's father (Joe) to check out the marriage and discover on this, but Andrew insisted to go on with the marriage. During the wedding, Margaret can't forgive herself of lying to the sweet family, she confessed on the purpose of this marriage and agree to go back to Canada. Only after this, Andrew realize he's actually falled for Margaret and went all his way to the airport to catch up but it was too late.

Margaret went back to office to pack up her personal things and Andrew managed to catch her. He told her about his feeling and was willing to marry her again. In the end, both of them went to immigration and announced their marriage again.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Since , Bullock has been one of my fav actress, she never failed me in this movie as well :) Love her goofiness when presenting this character. Especially the scene when she's chanting with Betty White~ lolz~

Ryan Reynolds is extremely cute and hot~ oh my god, how can someone be so perfect? the scene where Reynolds and Bullock bump together naked, phew~ i wet my pants :P Overall, the storyline is good, a bit predictable but way more better than . A good relax romance movie i should say :)