Sisters

Sisters

Rating 2.5 out of 10

I love Tina Fey.  Have always thought she was funny.  Watched the tv show 30 Rock because of her and how great she was.  Amy Poehler not as much.  She can be funny, but is not money in the bank like Fey.  One thing I have liked about both ladies is they could be funny without lowering down to the vulgar attempts of humor scattered with F-bombs.  Unfortunately that stops here with this dog you should avoid if you are above the age of twelve.  This is one of those movies where every funny part is in the commercials and even then the laughs are few.

Fey and Poehler were funny on Saturday Night Live.  Sadly this movie seems like a SNL skit stretched into a two hour movie that seemed more like three.  They must have had a handshake agreement with the SNL alumni that if they made a movie together they would include as many as they could.  This was not a good thing.

When mom and dad decide to sell the family home and move into a retirement condo association the two daughters Jane (Fey) and Maura (Poehler) are given a couple days to clean their stuff out of their old rooms.  Maura is the younger more responsible of the two.  They decide to throw one last party in the house before the new owners take over.  Invite all their old high school friends and go nuts.

The biggest problem is in the writing.  It is just not funny.  I wanted to laugh.  I wanted to like it.  Nope.  Avoid this movie.