Sisters

Two adult sisters, one caring and reliable (Amy Poehler) while the other (Tina Fey) is scattered and devil-may-care, go home to clean out their old room when their parents (Dianne Wiest, James Brolin) sell the family home—and on the spur of the moment they decide to recreate the wild parties of their youth, inviting all their old high school pals for one last blowout. Paula Pell’s script is like a distended Saturday Night Live skit, overworking one lame joke: what if a bunch of forty-somethings threw the kind of party you only see in movies about hormonal teenagers? Still, Fey and Poehler are always fun, and the movie is so completely over-the-top that frequent laughs are inevitable, in an I-can’t-believe-I-just-saw-that sort of way. Director Jason Moore makes little effort to control the mayhem. J.L.