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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: I like Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn and think they are all very good actors so when my sister rented The Banger sisters I watched it with her and we were both disappointed. This could have been a good movie but the plot was a little thin, they seemed to be trying to make some kind of point but never seemed to make it and the ending was ridiculous! The belivability factor just wasn't there and good acting can't always save a mediocre plot! I think Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn all have been in much better movies!
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Summary: The Banger Sisters... Starring Goldie Hawn's Lips & Boobs
Review: Wow.... What can I say??? I have six young sons, and nothing gives me greater pleasure than to get cozy on my huge sofa with my popcorn and coca-cola, after everybody's is tucked in for the night, and enjoy some quiet time with a great dvd. Sadly, this movie was a bitter disappointment. I think Susan Sarandon is a wonderful actress, and Goldie Hawn has had her moments (Overboard). Without going into the details of the film, I will try to concentrate my review on the elements of the film. When I excitedly hit the play button, which I was sure would open the door to a whole new soon-to-be favorite film, I was smiling and kept smiling hoping that each line would bring something to smile about. I soon discovered my face hurt from trying to hold my once geniune smile turned phony. I finally had to tell myself that the movie wasn't funny or touching or even well-acted. Goldie's Suzette possessed not one solitary trait that was even remotely endearing. Watching Geoffrey Rush's character, Harry, become "touched" while Suzette allowed Vinnie's (Susan Sarandon) daughter to puke all over her while she soothed her through her bad acid trip, was just plain silly. I felt myself feeling embarrassed for the actors. If Goldie Hawn didn't go home from shooting this film every night with a pounding headache or throwing her back out, I would be very surprised. There is no way that anyone could keep their lips pursed like that without some repercussion. And voguing one's boobs sideways, backways, and every way to Sunday can't be good on one's back. There was no "feel good" message, "no moral" to this waste of film. Those who have given "The Banger Sisters" a glowing review are clearly people who are "low maintenance" as far as movies go. They are not dazzled by gripping performances or an intelligent script. Two qualities I always look for. I guess if I am going to devote my valuable free time to watching a movie, it will have to be one worth watching and not this kind of slop. Hey, these people get paid millions of dollars to entertain. Shouldn't they have to earn it? I could go on and on and on about all that is wrong with this movie, but I won't. Too much time has been wasted already. If you feel as if you want to give this movie a chance, I would strongly urge you to rent it, or better yet, borrow it from someone who owns it. DON'T BUY IT!!!
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Summary: Funny Groupie Reunion...
Review: Two ex-groupies, Suzette (Goldie Hawn) and Vinnie (Susan Sarandon), meet again after many years apart. Suzette is in a difficult situation and decides to visit Vinnie, her former partner in crime, in order to ask for some money to help her get back on her feet. However, Suzette is in for a ride when she notices the change in Vinnie's life since they where groupies. Banger Sisters is a light hearted comedy with some practical wisdom in regards to life and life decisions. In the end Banger Sisters offers a good cinematic experience that I enjoyed in the company of some friends.
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Summary: Entertaining Movie
Review: Suzette played by Goldie Hawn, is younger than her fifty years because she remains true to her spirit despite the ups and downs in her life. Meanwhile, her sidekick Lavinia, or "Vinnie" as she was called back in the day, is an uptight housewife married to a lawyer running for office with two spoiled and unhappy daughters. After being fired from her last job, Suzette goes out to Arizona to find her friend after all these years. She meets Harry, a screenwriter with writer's block and unresolved issues with his father. Harry and her share a hotel. Suzette seeks to find her friend which she does. But Lavinia is different from what she remembers in the sixties. Lavinia is uptight and reserved about her past. Her family doesn't know about her past which is bad. Her daughters are struggling to find their own identity drinking, having sex, and crashing cars. Vinnie kept her past from her children thinking that she was protecting them but she wasn't. The comforts of wealth shielded her true self.
Feeling trapped in her lifestyle, Vinnie decides that she must relive the past with Suzette and both women go out and have themselves a good time like they did when they were teenagers. Meanwhile, Harry has overcome his writer's block and is able to write. But he is haunted by memories of his father which he has to resolve once and for all.
If Vinnie was upfront with her past life to her family, her daughters would have an understanding of what is wrong and what is right and they would have made decisions based on their own assumptions. Her husband would have respected her as the woman she is. He was more concerned about his political career and she was too busy protecting her past to appease him. Suzette could be more stable in her life but she clung on to old memories of her youth.
This is a good movie to watch. There's no shame in embracing memories of being young and outrageous.
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Summary: Gotta See It!!
Review: When I read the "back of the box" description on the movie the day my father brought it back from the library I was like "um- I'll watch it but I probably won't like it" I mean the plot line seemed so boring- Two former groupies one who's living in the past and one who's created a new life for herself that meet up one day...I was like "so what?" Then when I saw the movie everything changed. The movie was hiliarious and the Director could not have done a better job casting... Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn and Geoffery Rush have come together to make what has become one of my favorite movies. I now own it and watch it over and over. I recommend this movie to all comedy watchers.
Oh and : Michael Erisman --- Lavinia cuts her hair and Suzette and Lavinia go clubbing all BEFORE they go downstairs and look at the "rock cock collection" and smoke pot...Just thought you should know....
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Summary: The worst "moral of the story" point ever made?
Review: Let's see if we can set up the point to this film. Two women who used to be "groupies" and who were promiscuous and lived a life of following around and sleeping with rock stars went their separate ways. 20 years later and one (Goldie Hawn) still works in a bar, sleeps around, has no friends and no meaning whatsoever in her life except that she is being "herself" and not selling out. So, to start with the audience is required to somehow think that is a good thing, otherwise the rest of the movie makes no sense at all. After "Goldie" gets fired, and realizing that after 20 years all she has is an old friend somewhere who might be able to give her money, she sets off to find her. The other woman (Susan Sarandon) has gotten married to a wealthy lawyer, has two spoiled daughters who treat her poorly, and is generally unhappy with her life, despite her outward appearances. So, Goldie comes into town, they go downstairs and look at hundreds of old photos of men's privates, smoke pot, and then "Susan" decides to dress up like a trampy version of Brittany Spears so they can go clubbing. This brings "Susan" back and gives her life new meaning? "Susan" is now self-actualized and has "let her hair down" (although actually cut it off I think) and is now on her way to the kind of life her friend has? Everyone is happy. The end. This movie is so bad from a moral standpoint, it glorifies "Goldie's" character for being an irresponsible promiscuous loner trying to still be a teen-ager, that it is hard to give this even one star. However, it was produced well, and the acting is pretty good, so I gave it two stars for that, but minus ten for a liberal worldview that is shockingly bereft of any decent values or meaning at all.
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Summary: The Banger Sisters Rock!
Review: This movie definitely makes me laugh out loud and the chemistry between Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon is fabulous. I was a little suprised by the raunchy humor in this movie, but I think that is what makes it so funny. I did feel that the story as a whole was a little rushed, and how in one day everybody lived happily ever after. All in all, this is a great movie to watch with girlfriends - you'll definitely have some laughs!
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Summary: Ghost From The Past!
Review: Time stands still for no man, or woman, as we find Suzette (Goldie Hawn) and Lavinia (Susan Sarandon) now in their fifties
and after a groupie relationship in their youth their lives have taken very different routes. Suzette is still free spirited, while Lavinia is now married and has become quite an uptight lady. When Suzette reappears in her life she at first is afraid of how she would be viewed being in the company of someone like her. Soon however, Suzette helps Lavinia rediscover her true
fun free self and I believe that Lavinia helps Suzette see some important parts of life she has been missing.
I like Goldie Hawn in just about anything she does so I enjoyed this movie. Looking back for a while can be fun as long as we don't forget where we are or where we are going! I believe the ending of this movie left the viewer with that fact.
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Summary: It Ain't All That Bad...
Review: ...I thought I was in for another one of those chick flicks that are done to say "overall-men-are-pigs", but came out with a pleasant surprise with the interplay of the two leads. You could believe that Sarandon and Hawn kicked it lively a bit in their 20's. They would have had a blast together, if they could turn back the hands of time and hang out together in real life, I'd bet. When the repressed Lavinia starts to loosen up, you can start to see what Susie loved about her bigger sister figure... And I tell ya. Hawn and Saradon at forty plus? They're still babes.
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Summary: Not a terrible way to spend an hour and a half
Review: I saw the Banger Sisters last night. My wife really wanted to see it so I sat through. I was surprised that some of the comedy was REALLY funny and its the first time I've been engaged by Goldie Hawn in a really long time. What's curious is that this is kind of a play against type. Goldie plays an older version of Penny Lane, the 'Almost Famous' part that was done by her daughter. Older but still the quick and easy Bandaid her daughter played, it was kind of wierd. Susan Sarandon on the other hand would have been a natural for the Goldie Hawn part, if for no other reason than she did such an outstanding job in White Palace (which was a great movie made from an even better book). The ending is formulaic but the rest will have you grinning and laughing out loud.
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