bkoganbing With Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit Whoopi Goldberg is back as a faux nun who gets a request from Mother Superior Maggie Smith from the first Sister Act to go back undercover to help save a Catholic School run by the Catholic brothers headed in this case by Barnard Hughes. They need a music teacher and Whoopi's credentials were amply proved in the first Sister Act.Once again plot gambits are taken from those Bing Crosby classics that Leo McCarey did. Like in The Bells Of St. Mary's Whoopi is sent in to a failing Catholic School. Like in Going My Way she forms a really great choir from the raw material she finds in her music class. She also has to deal with a secular villain with church ties. James Coburn is hardly anything like the lovable Henry Travers as Mr. Bogardus in The Bells Of St. Mary's and has to be dealt with differently.If you bring Whoopi back you surely have to give her that lovable posse she formed from the first Sister Act. Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena and the lovable veteran Mary Wickes have all returned as well.The music is the best part of this film especially Lauryn Hill who is the centerpiece of that choir. Lauryn's scenes with Sheryl Ralph playing her mother who thinks her music aspirations are foolish are quite tender and real.The element of personal danger for Whoopi is not present in the sequel, it's lighter and at times a bit silly. Still I enjoyed it and Whoopi Goldberg's fans and many others will as well.

ccthemovieman-1 As with many sequels, this doesn't measure up to the original. In fact, I found this film - as opposed to the first one - very offensive. Of course, my beliefs had changed since first viewing "Sister Act." However, this film definitely irreverent.There are many irreverent remarks made throughout this film made by a number of people who just take the credibility of a real Believer to task. Yeah, the nuns are still "good guys," but don't fool yourself: there's a lot of secular bias in this script. Nobody in here, including all the Catholics, takes Christianity with an seriousness. Hey, if Hollywood takes it as a joke, it wants everyone to do the same. That seems to be the message of this movie.Also, as in many sequels they took a part of something that worked, and then overdid it the second time. In this case, it's Kathy Nijimy's role. She was cute and bubbly in a minor role in the original, got recognized for her performance and now has much bigger part. Unfortunately, they overdid all that giggling to the point where the woman is downright annoying.

possumopossum In this movie, the characters seem more relaxed around each other than they did in the first movie, probably because Deloras wasn't in any danger and they were all familiar with each other by now. Like SISTER ACT before it, this movie is funny and uplifting at the same time. You cheered every time those kids accomplished something, just as you did when the St. Catherine's Choir of the original movie became successful. A great inspiring movie about people tapping into their own potential and realize they have more to offer than they think. Both movies did a good job of getting this message across. Sister Mary Clarence didn't seem like a fish out of water like she did in the last movie, either, and that's probably why a lot of folks think this movie isn't as good as the original. Okay, so she's more familiar with her surroundings, but it's still uplifting and funny. A movie that inspires people to be the best they can be. So...WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION!!!!!

sped2002 I see some folks liked this film, but I truly hated it. Saw it in the theater and would have left if I was there by myself, was bored almost to tears. It's in my worst ten, but I don't go to the movies much, and if something stinks on video I turn it off as soon as the determination is made. That was all I had to say but gotta make 10 lines so: Pros of Sister Act 2 1: Completely predictable ; You won't risk hurting your think-bone. 2: You can use the time to contemplate what exactly Ted Danson was thinking when he decided to get with Whoopi. 3: It will show you everything you'll be missing when you go to one of those "good" movies. It was so bad , I'm posting this now, because the memory has never left me some 12? years later.