Raunchy Females on the Loose in Orlando
By Skip Sheffield
Funny. In a world that’s what “Sisters” is. In two words: very funny.
“Sisters” is a female-centric comedy by Saturday Night Live
and “The Awesomes” writer Paula Pell, directed by Jason Moore (“Pitch
Perfect”). It is set in Orlando, which is kind of a joke already. It stars Tiny
Fey and Amy Poehler, who are two of the funniest women in show business.
Whoever said women cannot be as funny as men has never met Tina and Amy.
Fey plays misfit older sister Kate Ellis and Poehler is
younger, more successful and proper Maura Ellis. Kate has just lost yet another
job working as a manicurist. Maura is always at the ready with financial
assistance, but Kate is too proud to admit her true state. When they learn
their parents (perfectly-cast James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) have decided to
downsize to a condo and sell the house the sisters grew up in, the sisters at
first are outraged. Then they get the ill-conceived idea of having a last
blowout party in the almost empty house. They call it “Ellis Island Revamped.”
Kate Ellis agrees to behave herself and stay sober. Maura
has her cap set for James (Ike Barinholtz), a somewhat shy neighbor who
remodels houses. Not unsurprisingly things quickly get out of hand, especially
when the Ellis girls’ old high school nemesis Brenda shows up. Maya Rudolph steals every
scene she’s in as the uninvited guest from Hell.
In this colorful cast of characters are the high school slacker
jerk classmate, Dave (John Leguizamo); the obligatory nutty fat guy Alex (Bobby
Moynihan); Rachel Dratch recreating her Debbie Downer character; a cute Korean
girl with a specific way of pronouncing her name, Hae-Won (Greta Lee) and the
hulking tattooed calm at the center of the storm, Pazuzu (John Cena).
“Sisters’ is short on moral lessons or meaningful content.
In fact it is blushingly raunchy with body-part and sex jokes that could only be
delivered by a woman without immediate arrest by the PC Police. This is what
could be called an ideal girls-night-out comedy, but this guy got a kick out of
it too.
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