118 Minutes, Comedy, MA15+

Want to get your happy face on early in the New Year? Well then, get your face into SISTERS! For the first time since their feature film debut together in 2008’s BABY MAMA (a very good comedy, by the way), comedy queens Amy Poehler & Tina Fey headline a big screen release. They are indeed sisters, living their separate and unfulfilling lives in New York – Maura (Poehler), divorced and too awkward & shy to ever attempt anything resembling a date again and Kate (Fey) who can’t keep a job or her teenage daughter living with her. When their parents (played by Dianne Wiest and James Brolin) announce the childhood home is being sold, the girls decide to throw one final, epic farewell party.

SISTERS’ target audience will be left in stitches by the hilarity to be experienced in this rambunctious comedy that derives much of its humour in depicting adults behaving badly. A colorful and well-balanced comedic script creates a number of pathways to locating varied senses of humour for all genders and demographics. SISTERS’ comic timing is often switched on. Its propensity and sheer will to make you laugh out loud, by way of its snappy one-liners & sizzling counterpunches that are deliciously delivered and some imaginative scenarios that are sharply executed, is infectious and admirable. So much so, forgiveness for the more irksome moments and characters is easy to grant. Even the less major part players are written with real zing and something to savour during a somewhat over-extended, yet very funny party sequence. Audience favourites are likely to be John Cena’s Pazuzu – a singlet & beanie wearing, serious-faced drug kingpin and eventual scene-stealer Alex (Bobby Moynihan) who unwittingly gets high off artificial sweetener (or so he thinks)! Last but not least, our leading ladies work wonderfully in tandem to help make SISTERS one of the best of its kind since the excellent BRIDESMAIDS.

4 out of 5

Trailer – SISTERS

Footnote to Parents
A comedy about adults behaving badly will mean it is an adult comedy! Contains sexual content and references, strong offensive language and drug use. Keep it above 15.

Moviedoc wishes to thank Universal Pictures and Hoyts Melbourne Central to the Preview Screening of SISTERS.

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