Sisters (2015)
Directed by Jason Moore
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
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Dratch’s existential moment praying to the porcelain god, an homage to “Dirty Dancing” and a tragic spandex interlude are also full-on giggle worthy.
"Sisters" feels like "Project X" for grownups who should know better.
Plot-wise it’s slight – it’s like Project X for grown-ups – and all the usual party tropes are wheeled out.
As the bash goes completely off the rails, the house gets trashed as thoroughly as the one in “Project X.” (An addendum to Chekhov’s gun dictum: if you’re going to mention a sinkhole in the first act, you have to use it by the movie’s end.)
Writer Paula Pell (who has a background on Saturday Night Live) is trying to tap into the success of other great party movies such as Superbad, Project X, Animal House and Old School.
The narrative is reminiscent of a high school reunion movie – Romy and Michele or a bloodless Grosse Pointe Blank – crossed with a house party pic, and is quality-wise somewhere between the endearing Risky Business and the woeful Project X.
Sí, hemos visto unas cuantas comedias americanas con la fiesta que se descontrola como telón de fondo narrativo (de la saga Resacón en Las Vegas a Project X) y quizá ese es el punto flaco de la película, pero ello no es óbice de que el caos que se dispara una vez arranca la celebración no provoque más de una carcajada.
The narrative is reminiscent of a high school reunion movie – Romy and Michele or a bloodless Grosse Pointe Blank – crossed with a house party pic, and is quality-wise somewhere between the endearing Risky Business and the woeful Project X.
Fresh from their successful three year stint co-hosting the Golden Globes, comedic duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are on fine comic form in this raucous sibling comedy that plays like a female version of Adam McKay’s underrated 2008 Will Ferrell comedy Step Brothers.
Even outside the catastrophe-laden soiree, however, a generally festive spirit runs through writer Paula Pell’s raucous feminization of “Step Brothers,” finally giving the irrepressible Amy Poehler and Tina Fey a big-screen vehicle that feels sympathetically tailored to their comic gifts.
There’s nothing particularly inventive about the story on display in Sisters (written by Paula Pell), which plays like a very slightly smarter, feminist riff on the supremely dunder-headed Step Brothers.