Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
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Actor: Maggie Smith, Whoopi GoldbergBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Movie Reviews of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Movie Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie when I was a substitute teacher. I could feel Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Mary Clarence when she first walked into that out of control classroom. The blatant disrespect they showed her was realistic.
The way she gained the class's respect made me pay attention. It was what you would hope a good teacher would do. As a matter of fact, the class and the teacher in this movie were based on a real teacher and her music class. I remember seeing the real teacher and her class on a talk show in 1995.
But the class in the movie had Lauryn Hill. She lit up the screen as the attitudinal Rita Watson. Her mother, portrayed by Sheryl Lee Ralph, had much to do with the Rita's poor attitude, we later find out. Yet somehow, Sister Mary Clarence is able to get through to Rita and she is able to do what she does best--sing.
The singing in this movie is phenomenal! The musical arrangements took this movie to another level than the original movie. In fact, the scenes with just the nuns singing are flat and dull by comparison to the scenes with the teenagers.
There's a line in the movie, "What she's done with those children is nothing short of miraculous." You get caught up in that `miraculous' watching the movie. And you laugh. And you cry. And you want to watch it again and again and again. That's why Sister Act 2 is one of the 7 happiest black movies of all time.
Summary of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Everybody's favorite nun is back in the habit as Academy Award(R)-winner Whoopi Goldberg (Best Supporting Actress, 1990, GHOST) stirs up more laughs than ever before! This time, Whoopi goes undercover as Sister Mary Clarence at a troubled inner-city school. Equipped with a melody-marching lesson plan, she brings the gift of laughter, the power of music, and a touch of heavenly inspiration to the classroom -- before the streetwise students discover who she really is! Experience the joys of higher education with this crowd-pleasing favorite as Whoopi answers her calling once again and delivers her special brand of habit-forming fun!Whoopi Goldberg returns in a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the convent's school, and runs with it. The film is slow and unconvincing from start to finish, although costars Mary Wickes and Kathy Najimy get some good laughs, and the music is pretty spirited. --Tom Keogh
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