Sisters
Sometimes two is not better than one…
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s new comedy Sisters is a reminder that perhaps their future is not on the big screen comedy. Sisters has a simple enough premise but by the end it totally misses the mark. Ok so I’m a big fan of both Poehler and Fey, however this film just lacked chemistry and more than half the movie was a snowball of raunchy, underwritten, one-liners.
The film begins showing the difference between the Ellis sisters. Kate (Tina Fey)is still the never get old partier that can’t hold down a job and her disillusioned daughter decides to leave rather then stay and continue to see her mother self destruct. Maura on the other hand is a recently divorced nurse that continues to check in with her parents daily due to her fear of losing them. Both sisters come together due to the selling of their childhood home in which for some odd reason is completely packed except for their room that is still stuck in the mid 80’s. This leads them to throw a no holds barred end to all “Ellis Party”.
Although there are a few funny moments through out the film that could make you spit your soda, it mainly just sputters for most of the two hours. By the end of the film many of those funny jokes are forgotten and the only thing left is the predictable cheese. With many enjoyable cameos the film could have been an SNL sketch and in many ways it probably would have delivered since the funniest moments of the film are the unrehearsed spontaneous jokes between characters.
4/10
Directed by Jason Moore. Written by Paula Pell. Starring Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Dianne Wiest, James Brolin, John Cena, Ike Barenholtz. At Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs. 118 minutes. R (crude sexual content and language throughout, drug use).
By Hiram Trillo
