Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
- Bill Duke
- Ernie F. Orsatti
- Dan Perri
- Nandi Bowe
- Barry K. Thomas
- Judi Ann Mason
- Jim Cruickshank
- James Orr
- Paul Rudnick
Rating: 6.4/10 by 1796 users
Alternative Title:
Sister Act 2 - US
Sister Act 2 - Più svitata che mai - IT
Sister act, Acte 2 - FR
Rock "N" nonne 2: De retour au couvent - CA
Cambio de Habito 2 - SV
Halløj i klosteret 2 - nonnernes hus - DK
Mudança de Hábito 2 - BR
Сестричка, действуй 2 - RU
En värsting till syster 2 - Redo att synda igen - SE
Mudança de Hábito 2 - De Volta ao Convento - BR
Mudança de Hábito 2: Mais Loucuras no Convento - BR
Do Cabaré para o Convento 2 - PT
Дій, сестро 2 - UA
Apáca show 2. - Újra virul a fityula - HU
Sister Act II: Back in the Habit - US
Sestra v akci 2: Znovu v černém hábitu - CZ
Country:
Slovakia
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 47 minutes
Budget: $38,000,000
Revenue: $57,319,029
Plot Keyword: nun, education, music competition, singing nun, singing, mother superior, catholic school, monastery, domineering mother, teenage rebellion, board of education, school choir, urban youth
The "Reverend Mother" (Dame Maggie Smith) seeks out the now hugely successful "Deloris" (Whoopi Goldberg) to help her to save a school from closure. Upon arrival, and assumption of her clerical moniker "Sister Mary Clarence" she discovers a disparate band of students who have little faith in themselves, each other - or their teachers. Can she lick them into shape and use their newly formed choir to save the school from the bulldozers? The premiss is not a patch on the first film, and neither is the execution. Dame Maggie offer a few classy cameo roles, as does an on form Mary Wickes with James Coburn appearing occasionally as the ferret-like administrator determined to help ensure the school does actually close, but for the most part this is akin to an early episode of "Fame". The kids, including an early appearance from Lauryn Hill, are almost auditioning - either to the nuns or to the audience, and even the ending is just a little like the end of "the Sound of Music" (only admittedly, somewhat livelier!). It's not terrible, but somehow it misses the faux-menace of the first in the series. It was made very quickly after that first one, so i wonder if this was more about capitalising on that success rather than making a quality sequel?
