Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

SnoopyStyle Suzette (Goldie Hawn) gets fired from Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles. She decides to go to Phoenix to reconnect with Lavinia Kingsley (Susan Sarandon) who used to be her best friend as "The Banger Sisters". On the way, she picks up peculiar writer Harry Plummer (Geoffrey Rush) who claims to be going to Phoenix to kill his father. Lavinia is now a conservative mother to valedictorian Hannah (Erika Christensen) and driving-impaired Ginger (Eva Amurri Martino) and wife to lawyer Raymond (Robin Thomas). Suzette is staying with Harry at a hotel when she encounters Hannah freaking out after dropping acid during prom. None of her family knows Vinnie's former wild life.Hawn and Sarandon are good together. Rush and Hawn are even better together as opposites. The girls discovering their mother is compelling. It would be better to have them have more heart-to-heart scenes with Vinnie. A girls' sit-down could be a powerful emotional talk. This movie is much better than expected although my expectations were extremely low.

jimakros This is a terrible,horrible movie,unless one agrees with its basic premise that sluts are cool,even at 50. Goldie and Sarandon play a couple 50 year-olds who in their youth were rock-groupies. We enter the story when they are middle-aged,Goldie is till going on as she was at 20,and Sarandon changed to a(fake)conservative woman,who brings up a family.The key word here is FAKE,because Satrandon is NOT presented as a normal 50 year-old who just grew-up but as a woman who secretly longs for her wild youth. The script written by probably some woman who never had sex and strongly regrets her ways,is a glorification of the life of a slut,not only at youth but even at middle-age.Goldies character is presented as a"cool" person,and the actress,in a horrible performance just walks around with the attitude of a rock-star,understandably because she once slept with some of them. The movie is of course laughable but because its not presented as a satire but even has a moral message!!!!,i have to say it is nauseating.Unless you think that the message,is OK,and that middle-aged women should teach their daughters that they should be sluts and whores and its OK,as long as they don't try to hide it,which that and only that is the ultimate sin. Maybe the worse movie i have ever seen.Unfortunately i cant rate it lower than 1,there is no 0 in IMDb rating.

Gordon-11 This film is about a middle class wife having to face her unconventional past when her best friend from her past shows up at her doorstep uninvited.I find "The Banger Sisters" funny, genuine and heartwarming. The plot is about being true to yourself, and not be the person other people want you to be. Vinnie's changes in her personality is well portrayed in the film, making it a believable and satisfying change. Her journey of self rediscovery maybe clichéd, but it is heartwarming, affirmative and thought provoking. I enjoyed "The Banger Sisters" a lot, as it is positive, entertaining and fun.

zeemaza I didn't particularly like or dislike this movie. In fact I was lying on my couch and had nothing better to do than to watch it, so I did. It seemed like parts of it were funny and others were boring but there was this one scene towards the end of the movie when Susan Sarandon day dreamed for a few seconds remembering her past and they showed Los Angeles in the sixties that made me so want to go back to that era. It was a simple, plain shot of people walking on the sunset strip in Hollywood and you could tell how much those people loved it. I was very young in the sixties and didn't know what was happening then but now I look at it I know that this must have been the greatest time ever to have experienced in your teens, twenties and early thirties. Everyone looked so ... carefree and happy to be part of that time of experimentation. WOW ... man was it colorful and cool ... anyways, that's all I have to say and I'm sure no one will find this comment useful but if you were growing up in the sixties I envy you!!!