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C+ |
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C- |
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B+ |
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| Direction: |
D |
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| Visuals: |
B- |
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Nice Try
by Jason T (movies profile)
Aug 15, 2006
5
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7 people found this review helpful
I like this movie but I don't. I find it very entertaining (Lauryn Hill steals the show with a heartwarming rendition of "Joyful, Joyful") and very funny (Whoopi Goldberg is a scream) but also very flawed and very cheesey. Goldberg reprises her 1992 smash hit "Sister Act" by returning to LA after Maggie Smith and the sisters are in need of her tough teachings to a bunch of kids who think their cool but really are lamer then the Mickey Mouse club. Since the movie is rated PG we can't get a realistic look at tough-inner city kids and instead get phrases like "Yo that is wack" and "Your momma so fat when she sat on a rainbow skittles came out." Okay...no. Frank K is a white kid who thinks he can rap, Jennifer Love Hewitt is cute as the pretty girl, and Lauryn Hill is the closest thing to how a real inner-city person would act but even her dialogue isn't as smooth as it could have been. Then there's this nerdy white kid who is as lame as they come, is teased in class, but then AFTER school is hanging out with Frank K, Lauryn and another cool person. Since Frank K and Hill are supposed to be the most popular kids in the music class, why are they letting a lame hang with them? As harsh as this question is, in real life the white geeky kid would not be hanging with the cool black kids. Back to the story. Goldberg manages to turn the kids who used to sing flat into a champion choir? In two weeks? No way. I was in the best high school choir in the country and people that were flat took years to change. "Sister Act II" is a cute movie that needed a LOT of re-writes. Great ending though. |
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