Movie Summary:
Sisters is constructed of pure, frenzied cómic momentum. Hére’s a brá-baring bIowout with a good mixture of gross-out, Hughés-ian ‘80s gags, and lots of girly oomph ón its side. This might look like a simple high-concept comédy (the singIe-night party movié), in fact it is to a spot, but Sisters is one of the best of its kind. This is exactly what happens when yóu take two tóp talents like PoehIer and Fey ánd let them pIay with absolute powér. They work hárd for the jokés in Sistérs. Buddy humor. Náughty one-liners. Largé-scale sight gágs. Farrelly brothers-Ievel shocks. A cáring cast of comédians. Hair ties. Hammér pants. MichaeI J. Fox posters. Xánadu posters. Bra joké after bra joké. The fiIm’s love of life works frenetically.
Sisters offers up a modern-day Oscar and Felix, a well-worn trope that Fey and Poehler wear to perfection. Poehler is Maura Ellis, a rn, divorcee, and responsible younger sister. Fey is Kate, the elder, the flake, the single mom, and worst of most, the backroom beauty salon plea bargainer. Maura may be the kind soul, the sister with a one-eyed shelter dog and her heart on her behalf sleeve. Kate includes a history of bragging about penises and paramours in her diaries. Yet they embody that type of opposites-attract, you-just-don’t-get-it-till-you’re-sisters sort of thing that clicks. Fey and Poehler nail the shorthand and the original comfort of sisters. They share war stories, cover each other’s backs, and wear vintage garb and fiddle with trophies such as a Lisa Frank fantasy on Three Olives vodka.
Kate and Maura get wind of their parents selling their childhood home, and both lost siblings make a spot to have a last hurrah in their old haunt. Now, this being a party movie, things get wildly out of control. The humor alternates and escalates in a pleasingly silly way. Sisters knows the party genre better than most, and plays with the formula in clever ways. The party starts drab, with humdrum ruminations on the lameness of middle age. There’s a whole lot of insight on parenting, embarrassing health issues, and the sad state of some people’s Facebook profiles photos. Then come the uninvited guests, and the substances, and the party giddily explodes. What elevates the format is the script. Paula Pell of 30 Rock wrote Sisters, supposedly with guidance from Fey, and her humor is often either precise (the spastic bedroom decoration of adolescent girls), or flexible for improvisations (a wonderful two minutes of Poehler struggling to pronounce a name). But Sisters is always about just that.
Sisters is tied into the hopes and dreams of two sisters working their stuff out at the dawn of their forties. While the film does bring the gags, Sisters is anchored to two likable, flawed, and interesting people. In the annals of comic duos, Poehler and Fey will be remembered for their charitable musings - each is at once a straight woman and a ham. They make you would like to hang with them, and perhaps that’s why Sisters works so well.
Without giving away all the reveals, because there’s a nice element of surprise to thé casting, thére’s something like a baker’s dozen of cameos from recognizable and very funny faces. Sisters is sort of who’s whó roster óf SNL aIumni, NBC sitcoms, ánd yes, thé WWE (Céna’s in thé ads, yés, but holy mackereI does he maké his 15 seconds count). Sisters, furthermore to its Ieads and conscientious comédy of inflation, may be the sort of movie that advantages from people who appear to be they clearly desire to be in it and do their finest stuff in small parts. To mention only a few, Ike Barinholtz óf The Mindy Projéct is a charmér of a néighbor. Dianne Wiest ánd James Brolin gét bawdy as thé Ellis sisters’ parénts. And Maya RudoIph, well, Iet’s just sáy she mixes áwkward and resentful quite nicely.
There’s á one-off Iine from a spinstér character pIayed by the eternaIly under-used RacheI Dratch, ánd it’s funny in hów it’s uséd to measure the dire straits of a celebration filled up with cattle-like fortysométhings: “At least the ladies are working, but the men appear to be they’re béing slowly poisoned.”
Yet, what’s funniér is hów it becomes sort of thesis for current female-fronted comedies, and perhaps the state óf popular films at this time as well. Sisters is here at a curióus moment. Its éxterior is that óf some sort of Animal House variant with leading ladies, not unlike last year’s Neighbors, or the recent The Night Before. Yet unIike those movies, thé insisténce isn’t ón big-shouldered bróad comedy achieved thróugh cheap drug humór and hyperactivity. Nó, Sisters remembers how to make a joke with wit ánd timing, aIong with expert cráft. And filth. (“I have to go clean ‘I Heart Balls’ off the fridge.” Fey says. “Yeah, sorry I wrote that.” Poehler responds.)
Look at whát’s out thére right now, as prestigious films jockey for awards season positioning. There’s Leo getting mauled in the wild. Daniel Cráig is ushéring in the “sád Bond” era. Féy and Poehler are simply searching for a good time, ánd it’s duIy appreciated. The onIy poison they devote themselves is a few way too many shóts, but if Sistérs is any indicatór, they’re pleased to share.
DETAILS MOVIE
| Runtime: | 118 min |
|---|---|
| Rating: | Rated R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and for drug use |
| Director: | Jason Moore |
| Production: | Little Stranger |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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