You Again isn't just risible, it is hilariously risible. It may even be more hilariously risible than risible ever has the right to be. 'Laboriously contrived' doesn't even get near it.

In this ditzy whirl nothing is pushed too far -- the bad aren't really bad, they're all sorry. And the assumption that high school is where it all happens is ringingly endorsed.

A clever, perhaps even brilliant idea for a black comedy has here been slathered and stifled in a thick treacly layer of Disney-sentimental gloop.

No realism works its way into the script, which is painfully apparent when everyone has their own dance sequences.