If there’s one good thing about this trailer for Sisters, it’s that it’ll play ahead of Trainwreck (which also co-stars John Cena) and make you appreciate the latter even more. How is it that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, two of the funniest women on TV ever, can’t seem to work on the big screen? I’ve never understood how certain stars can be so much more suited for one medium over the other — and really, we don’t see many movie stars that can’t do television — but perhaps it’s time for these ladies to realize they’re just like Ted Danson, David Caruso and John Krasinski. They need new series, maybe something together, though I’m also not sure they’re right to co-star in anything except an awards show hosting gig. They’re both too funny to share the frame with another of that level.
Okay, I know I shouldn’t judge the whole movie on this unfunny trailer, but while the good stuff might have been left out and saved for the release (like Hollywood ever does that for comedies), the spot still offers a sense of what this movie is and how it will play out. And my first question is why both of these sisters are dumb party animal types. Shouldn’t one of them be a straight woman? Not that Baby Mama is a great movie either, but at least it followed the main rule of comedy pairings by having Fey be the conservative character to Poehler’s contrasting fool. Yes, Step Brothers was able to achieve what Sisters seems to be going for, but they did have the parents as the straight persons and also Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly just play idiocy better than these two.
Fey is actually great for movies, as evidenced with Mean Girls, but as with that she needs to write something and play a supporting role again. Poehler, meanwhile, should do more animation voice work, a la Inside Out. At least when Sisters arrives in theaters on December 18, 2016, if it’s a failure they can blame the fact that they opened opposite Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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