Sisters

Directed by: Jason Moore

Memorable quotes: 

-Maura Ellis: "You scored yourself a nice corner. Good job! Hi, I'm Maura Ellis. I'm not part of a religious group or anything. I'm just a nurse who likes to give back on er days off. You know when you are living outdoors skin cancer is a real concern. So I got you some sunscreen and you my friend have some irregular moles.
-Guy on the street: You're a very friendly person.
- Maura: Wanna come to my house and take a shower? Maybe make a list of goals?
- Guy on the street: Oh, I have a girlfriend.
- Maura: Great, it's important to have a lady out there in the street. What do you call her? Road bitch or something?
- Guy on the street: Her name's Karen.
- Maura: Your little Mama. Your street wife. Anyway, I'm pretty good with sayings so I made these cards for my sister but I think maybe you could use one: 'without the dark night you could never see the bright stars'.
- Guy on the street: Is this from Twilight?
- Maura: No, I made it up.
- Guy on the street: Hmm, no, you didn't.
- Maura: Yeah I did.
- Guy on the street: See you later.
- Maura: Wait, wait a minute. Hey! You're not homeless?
- Guy on the street: You were on a row.
- Maura: Give me back the sunscreen so I can give it to an actual homeless person, like this lady.
- Lady: Fuck off! I'm the manager here."

- Deana Ellis: "Maura, we got some news.
- Maura: Oh my God, who is sick?
- Deana: Oh for crying out loud Maura, relax!
- Deana: We decided... to sell this house."

- Bucky Ellis: "We don't get this Skype crap.
- Maura: There is nothing to get. You're doing it."

- Maura: "Yeah okay, funny joke, what's the news?
- Bucky; We are. We are selling.
- Maura: The one where we grew up in? Are you selling it to each other?"

- Deana: "All we need you to do is to come and clean out your bedroom because it's a bottomless pit."

- Deana: "We wondered if maybe you could tell her. Because we don't want to."

- Maura: "You're blinking. You're fake freezing. Unbelievable. Just call her, you're her parents. Dad, let it go."

- Kate Ellis: "So, why are we covering this grey today, Phil?
- Phil: Well, I have a date with an engaging new gal, someone younger than me.
- Kate: Good for you cause ladies your age are gross, right?"

- Kate: "It's super gentle. They use it on pageant's babies."

- Haley: "I want you to be responsible so I don't have to be. It is too stressful sleeping with you on a pilate couch on your friend's dining room.
- Kate; She is not my friend. She was our bug man.
- Haley: I need you to learn to be more irresponsible otherwise I'm going to be hazed so bad in college."

- Haley: "I love you mom but your life is just too chaotic right now."

- Dana: "You know how many times a day I kiss that dog's in the mouth?
- Kate: An unsettling amount.
- Dana: I wanna kiss him. I'm gonna picture that he ate some stranger's pubes and it's gonna affect my relationship with him."

- Kate: "Hey, can I get a small glass of tequila?
- Waiter; Like a shot of tequila?
- Kate: Yeah, a shot. Just keeping it classy."

- Maura: "Your hair is long. So mermaidy!"

- Maura: "Okay, you have to be careful when you get fake hair cause in some countries they give their young girl's chicken's hormones and make them grow it in their basement.
- Kate: Do they get paid cause I would do that."

- Kate: "What's your deal? Are you doing anything for fun?
- Maura; Yeah. Rescue dogs have so many hidden skills. I have been training Polenta how to smell diabetes."

- Dave: "Holy Moses with his balls out. Is that Kate Ellis I am looking at?"

- Kate: "Somebody told me you died.
- Dave: That's crazy. You're the second person that said that to me.
- Kate; You should check it out."

- Kate: "Burying your wife?"

- Maura: "I bet working on other's people bushes really makes you wack your weeds."

- Maura: "You will be the butt of our joke because your butt is no joke."

- Maura:  "I'm not laughing at that butt. I laugh with that butt. I'm gonna laugh in that butt."

- Kate: "The fucking sold our fucking childhood fucking home."

- Maura: "You threw away our baby pictures?
- Deana: No! We sold them to the gay men at the flee market who turns them into funny cards."

- Kate: "You chose the party mom role to protect yourself from fun".

- Maura: "I know I am so fun! I shouldn't keep that to myself."

- Maura: "Yeah but he is younger than me.
- Kate: Yeah but he is taller than you. That's all that matters."

- Kate: "You know your cousin's gay right?
- Mrs. Geernt: That's not my cousin. That's my husband.
- Kate: That's your husband? You're gonna have some surprising shit go down in about 10 years."

- Kate: "We sleep with our eyes open. Like sharks."

- Kate: "Ugh. Brinda always looks like she has a fart coming out sideways."

- Maura: "That's a snazzy belt.
- Brinda: Oh, thank you.
- Kate: Yeah, congrats on your wrestling championship.
- Brinda: It's Ralph Lauren.
- Maura: Is that how you say it?
- Brinda: Yeah.
- Kate: You get good wifi with that?"

- Maura: "Do you get lunch breaks?
- Hae-Wan: What is lunch?"

- Kate: "I wish being gay was a choice. Cause I've always liked that shorts and boots look.
- Maura: Yeah, I know. For me the deal breaker would be the eating of the pussies.
- Kate:  Oh really? Cause for me it would be the fucking unbearable amount of talking."

- Kate: "I never met a Brayla before.
- Brayla: I know like 3.
- Kate: Oh, so you're trending. God bless."

- Maura: "I hate keeping secrets. Especially from my sister. It gives me guilt diarrhea."

- Maura: "We need a little less forever 21 and a little more suddenly 42."

- Maura: "So, I've been thinking.
- Kate: Why?"

- Kate: "When you say 'loan', do you mean the kind you pay back or like a wink wink loan?
- Maura: All loans are supposed to be paid back.
- Kate: Not in my experience."

- Maura: "Will you be the party mom tonight so I can let my freak flag fly?"

- Kate: "I say tonight we party like Vikings. Cause we could die tomorrow!
- Maura: Let's light a boat on fire."

- Maura: "Wow, you look so happy. You look so free and not oppressed at all. We were worried about you.
- Hae-Wan: Really? We were worried about you. Both your feet look like dried beef.
- Kate: Ah! I knew you were talking shit about us!"

- Kate: "Good things are hidden in the quiet.
- Maura: Who said that?
- Kate: I did. I'm smart."

- Brinda: "God, I could watch Tyrion slap the smug off that little fucker's face 100 times and never get sick of it."

- Kate: "You're so full of shit that I'm gonna buy you pull-ups."

- Kate: "Oh, hell no! Are you serious cause I am straight up baffled."

- Kate: "Nice try. On your bike bitch. Get your peanut butter out of my sister's chocolate. I respect your jumpsuit, but not its content. Hit it."

- Brinda: "Winter is coming, bitches!"

- Maura: "Pazuzu, thank you so much for bringing your arms here...your drugs here."

- Kate: "Danger, walk away. That's a black diamond slope."

- Kate: "Do you have kids?
- Pazuzu: I'm sure I do."

- James:" I think I lost the weight so I could gain a better view of my perfect penis. I missed the little guy. Not little, medium. I missed the medium guy."

- James: "A house is just a building. Home is a feeling."

- Maura: "What are you writing down?
- Policeman: Nothing, it's my pad.
- Maura: Here is something you should write down: E.A.T. S.H.I.T."

- Dave: "I am writing erection. By Calvin Klein."

- Brinda: "You know what the saddest part is?
- Kate: Your vagina?"

- Kate: "Hey Pazuzu. I'm partying now. Are you ready for me?
- Pazuzu: I have been ready. My safe word is keep going."

- Hae-Wan: "You wanna hug? Give this messy bitch a hug!"

- Kate: "Why don't you go breast feed a squirrel?"

- Bucky: "Our whole house looks like Pompeii and you two are wrestling?"

- Deana: "We keep trying to pass you the button. You won't take it. Take it!
- Bucky: Yes, take the fucking button!"

- Bucky: "Now, everybody get the hell out before I call your children!"


Plot: When their parents decide to sell their childhood home, the Ellis sisters are reunited and decide to throw a once in a lifetime party.

Trailer: 



Review: 

  Sisters is a movie that had me slightly conflicted, which is ironic for such a basic and fun movie.

Realistically, the script is rather poor. The jokes are very basic and of poor taste. I’m not ever sure I would have given this movie a shot if I wasn’t such a fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.  Both are comedic geniuses and I loved the previous movies they made together like Mean Girls and Baby Mama. They are also brilliant on SNL and as a woman I particularly like what they embody, which does make me want to support their work.

With Sisters, I think we kind of hit a wall though and we can rightly wonder whether their success make them a bit lazy. Did Tina Fey and Amy Poehler rely a bit too much on an already acquired base fan to make the success of this movie without having to put too much work into the script? Or did they only want to make this movie for fun, between friends?  By any means if this is the case then good for them! 

You will for instance recognize many familiar faces such as Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, Rachel Dratch, Kate McKinnon, etc.

While the movie is rather poor in terms of quality, it did make a few social commentaries that would have been worth exploiting but then again, it might have changed the tone of the movie. 

Regardless, I still had a great time at the movies and I did have a few good laughs. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have a great dynamic and they are definitely the heart of Sisters.