Whoopi Week keeps going....

Alba Avram Haziran 26, 2021

In second place:
Sister Act 1 & 2

I couldn’t really put these films as separate entities, as they deserve to belong together as a dynamic duo of cinema history. Now I’m not going to pretend that there isn’t a lot of debate about the merits of the sequel (it seems people either passionately hate it or passionately love it) but this reviewer feels that both deserve recognition for their Whoopi-ness. I mean, Sister Act, a film about Deloris Van Cartier, a showgirl who witnesses a murder and has to go into protective hiding in a convent, is the film that really launched Whoopi into the international icon that she is today. The music is great: who can resist the charms of Motown?; the actors are great- Maggie Smith and Harvey Kietel didn’t win their Oscars for nothing; and the story is fun. The fact that this remains one of my grandmother’s favourite films just shows how it appeals to a huge spectrum of people. And let’s not forget all singing all dancing Whoopi who steals the show with her big smile and even bigger afro. Sister Act 2, which sees Deloris return to the convent to help a group of teenagers learn to sing to escape their troubles, is full of more singing, more dancing and even more Whoopi. And that is something that is guaranteed to make us all happy.

Best Whoopi Moments:

There are too many to choose from! The ending of the first one when she has her afro out in front of the Pope and they sing ‘I Will Follow Him’, the ending of the second one when she says that she is a ‘headliner’, all the bits that made people love her!