What on earth is Kristen Bell doing to her career? Anyone who has ever seen Veronica Mars knows what a great on-screen quantity she is – attractive in an unusual way, great sarcastic comic delivery, good all-around actress. Why does she keep taking these roles that are based on painfully lame physical comedy? Or more to the point, why can’t someone write a decent role for this chick?
The scene with the dentures sums up the whole film. You know she is going to be transformed back into her high school self, you feel it coming from a zillion miles away, and then she puts the glue on the dentures, sticks them in granny’s mouth, touches her hair with her gluey hand right at her bangs, and her hand is glued to her hair. So what happens? Her ancient grandmother who can barely walk suddenly moves like The Flash, grabs scissors, and before Kristen Bell can react in any way or even scream “no”, PRESTO: her hand is free and she has ugly bangs just like she did in high school. I swear to God, who gets paid to write this shit?
Please someone, write a great movie for Kristen Bell to star in – she deserves it.