Star World seems
to be on a Kate Hudson spree for their segment called Movie Magic. Sometime back it was Fools Gold. The week before last we saw that RomCom
titled Something Borrowed. And last week
it was this Romance / RomCom movie called A Little Bit of Heaven.
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Thursday, 20 June 2013
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Sister Act 2 : Back in the Habit
We are in the season of sequels and it was only obvious that when Sister Act was playing on Star Movies, the next movie that followed was Sister Act 2 : Back in the Habit. A back to back exhibition of classic acting and comic timing from a class actress – one of the few ladies who have a natural flair for comedy and ace their part of the deal every single time that they come on it. But this time around it is directed by Bill Duke – who would probably be best known for his roles as an actor and not the ones behind the camera. Remember the guy who plays Mac in the Arnie starrer Predator? The big African American guy? If not then maybe you would remember the guy Cooke from Commando? Well it would seem that he is a director as well. Well whaddya know!!!! He has about 5-7 full length features to date but a bulk of his work behind the camera has come from Television and you can add his name to the long list of people who probably haven’t made the transition quite well from small screen to big screen – especially as directors. Duke probably got his chance with Sister Act 2 thanks to Emile Ardolino (the director of Sister Act 1) kicking the bucket sometime in 1993 (the year of its release). Guess he got a bit lucky i.e. Duke.
This time around, Deloris Van Cartier or should we say Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) is not running away from anyone or anything. She is just basking in her success as the nun who got a gangster into jail and then made it big as a show singer in Vegas. She is now immensely successful and well written about. So money is no longer a problem. But the sisters want her back. They want her to come back with them to a school that they have started and pay back to society by teaching music. They want to use Deloris’s excellent capabilities to rally people around her in the noble profession of teaching bright but extremely rowdy children in a school that is probably going to be shut really really soon. Reluctantly Deloris agrees to don the habit once again. Needless to say, it’s a roller coaster of sorts after that happens.
Sister Act 2 however doesn’t manage to recreate the magic that the first part does so very well. Whether it was due to change of director or a story line that was OK or because it released the very next year of the first part releasing one can never tell but it may just about be a combination of all of these points. Sister Act 2 marks the debut of a couple of stars in Hollywood - Lauryn Hill & Jennifer Love Hewitt both of whom go on to be reasonably successful in tinsel town. The fun moments are however quite limited this time around. Which is probably the reason it gets a rating that is a tad lower that the first part. 5.5 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80E5KTjvmA
This time around, Deloris Van Cartier or should we say Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) is not running away from anyone or anything. She is just basking in her success as the nun who got a gangster into jail and then made it big as a show singer in Vegas. She is now immensely successful and well written about. So money is no longer a problem. But the sisters want her back. They want her to come back with them to a school that they have started and pay back to society by teaching music. They want to use Deloris’s excellent capabilities to rally people around her in the noble profession of teaching bright but extremely rowdy children in a school that is probably going to be shut really really soon. Reluctantly Deloris agrees to don the habit once again. Needless to say, it’s a roller coaster of sorts after that happens.
Sister Act 2 however doesn’t manage to recreate the magic that the first part does so very well. Whether it was due to change of director or a story line that was OK or because it released the very next year of the first part releasing one can never tell but it may just about be a combination of all of these points. Sister Act 2 marks the debut of a couple of stars in Hollywood - Lauryn Hill & Jennifer Love Hewitt both of whom go on to be reasonably successful in tinsel town. The fun moments are however quite limited this time around. Which is probably the reason it gets a rating that is a tad lower that the first part. 5.5 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80E5KTjvmA
Sister Act
There are superstars and then there are superstars. And Whoopi Goldberg would probably fall into a category called Super Duper Whooper Stars. So when I had the opportunity of watching Sister Act last Sunday (on Star Movies) I wasn’t going to give up the opportunity at all. Now Sister Act is not one of the best movies ever made by mankind I can assure you. It is directed by Emile Ardolino whose claim to fame is the evergreen Dirty Dancing and some RomComs such as Chances Are. I mean there is really nothing much to write home about in the movies that he has given us (except Dirty Dancing). But all of them, if you notice closely have this classic charm about them which make them watchable any given time of the day. As a movie, Sister Act is barely there in a manner of speaking. Which would explain the imdb rating of 5.9 on 10 and the rating that I would give it would be around the same (only that I would round it off to a 6 because I don’t complicate my ratings with the decimal points other than 0.5). But it is not debatable that Sister Act is entertaining, fun, evergreen and a definite watch for anyone – must see it if you haven’t done so yet.
Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a bar singer who doesn’t have much of a fan following. Now she is in love with the local gangster Vince LaRocca (Harvey Kietel) who is married and is basically using Deloris as his mistress more than anything else. Deloris knows this but doesn’t do much because she needs the income. But when her repeated pleas go unheeded she decides to storm into Vince’s office and demand her pound of flesh. Unfortunately, she also walks into a situation where Vince has killed someone – just part of his job as a gangster. Now Deloris is aware of Vince’s legal status but seeing someone killed in front of her is something that she doesn’t quite know how to handle. She does manage to however run away from the scene and goes straight to the cops where a Detective Lt. Eddie Souther (Bill Nunn) offers her police protection and in return expects Deloris to take to the witness stand against LeRocca, an offer that Deloris reluctantly accepts. The way Lt. Souther expects to keep her protected is to put her in a place where no one expects someone like her to be. Inside a church. And that too as a nun. Deloris Van Cartier is now Sister Mary Clarence for the rest of the movie.
Sister Act is almost a laugh every 5 minutes kind of a riot with Goldberg leading from the front with an absolutely fabulous performance – something that u expect her to deliver at the bare minimum. The direction as explained earlier is just about average but good enough to carry out a concept like this. The support cast has a couple of good efforts from Kathy Najimy and Wendy Makkena who will also feature in the sequel to this one and rightfully so. Playing this whole month on Star Movies, watch Sister Act to kind of re-live an old classic that quite a few of us would have seen while growing up. As mentioned earlier my rating is a 6 on 10. But it is also a Must watch in its own right.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3162702105/
Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a bar singer who doesn’t have much of a fan following. Now she is in love with the local gangster Vince LaRocca (Harvey Kietel) who is married and is basically using Deloris as his mistress more than anything else. Deloris knows this but doesn’t do much because she needs the income. But when her repeated pleas go unheeded she decides to storm into Vince’s office and demand her pound of flesh. Unfortunately, she also walks into a situation where Vince has killed someone – just part of his job as a gangster. Now Deloris is aware of Vince’s legal status but seeing someone killed in front of her is something that she doesn’t quite know how to handle. She does manage to however run away from the scene and goes straight to the cops where a Detective Lt. Eddie Souther (Bill Nunn) offers her police protection and in return expects Deloris to take to the witness stand against LeRocca, an offer that Deloris reluctantly accepts. The way Lt. Souther expects to keep her protected is to put her in a place where no one expects someone like her to be. Inside a church. And that too as a nun. Deloris Van Cartier is now Sister Mary Clarence for the rest of the movie.
Sister Act is almost a laugh every 5 minutes kind of a riot with Goldberg leading from the front with an absolutely fabulous performance – something that u expect her to deliver at the bare minimum. The direction as explained earlier is just about average but good enough to carry out a concept like this. The support cast has a couple of good efforts from Kathy Najimy and Wendy Makkena who will also feature in the sequel to this one and rightfully so. Playing this whole month on Star Movies, watch Sister Act to kind of re-live an old classic that quite a few of us would have seen while growing up. As mentioned earlier my rating is a 6 on 10. But it is also a Must watch in its own right.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3162702105/
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