You Again Trailer: Can Sigourney Weaver and Betty White Rescue Kristen Bell's Catfight Comedy?

If there's anything I've learned from reading Jezebel, it's that women love paparazzi pictures of celebrities but hate the assumption that they can't get along with each other. How to explain, then, the preponderance of movies like Mean Girls, Bride Wars, and the new Kristen Bell comedy You Again, which suggest women are never more entertaining then when they're taking each other down?

In the new You Again trailer, after the obligatory starting beat that establishes that Kristen Bell is a high-powered young professional who's great at her job (more of a non sequitur here than ever), the plot kicks in: Bell is determined to catfight with her brother's new fiancee, the former cheerleader who made her life miserable in high school. (The inherent self-flagellation of perky, blond child stars like Kristen Bell and Taylor Swift who somehow play anti-cheerleading outcasts onscreen...go!) There's even a b-plot where Bell's mother, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, tangles with her own high school rival in Sigourney Weaver.

I know what these actresses will say when interviewed about the project: "It's actually about female friendship!" (That, and "I loved working with Betty White.") Thing is, when you're a movie that celebrates and revels in female cattiness, then serves up those images as nauseum in trailers, commercials, and billboards, you can't turn around and call yourself a paean to female friendship just because in the last ten minutes, the mean girl says, "I also felt like an outcast in high school, secretly!" and then they hug.

In summation, You Again could really use a helping of secret J.J. Abrams trailer aliens.

VERDICT: Nope.

Jamie Lee Curtis Versus Sigourney Weaver In The You Again Trailer [Cinema Blend]