jessegehrig I think there's a scene where the Banger Sisters look at photographs of the genitals of the rock stars they slept with during their groupie years, why did you do that? This movie makes me think, " what else is on." O.K fine, I'm sorry Banger Sisters, I shouldn't make fun of this pointless predictable by-the-numbers age appropriate bore for dying baby- boomers. You want to know what the story is? Story is sucks. You want to know how the acting is? Yeah, is sucks, is all sucks. I make puking noises "hack-bleh-bleck-halluck-hallule" my vomit covers me in hot mess and shame, like the Banger Sisters. Do you own a hammer? Want to know what might be fun? Find yourself a copy of the Banger Sisters and smash it to a heap of crap, just smash it till your arm goes numb from repeated impact and your shoulder explodes with pain, tears streak your raging face crying out, " Now I bang you! Now I bang you! " and darkness swells in the gathering twilight.

buiger I totally agree with James Berardinelli's review on this one. He summed it all up perfectly in one phrase: "I did not accept the sudden transformation that resurrected Vinnie, lifting her out of her stagnant existence. It feels forced and contrived, and the movie takes it for granted that being a rootless free-spirit is fundamentally more satisfying than pursuing a stable lifestyle". This says it all, then add on a catastrophic and ridiculous ending, and what is left is a truckload of missed opportunities to make this movie into much more...In other, Goldie Hawn was excellent in her part, Susan Sarandon average. The male characters in the film (especially Sarandon's husband) are basically non-existent, their characters are devoid of any depth whatsoever, so their performances can't even be judged.

theowinthrop Goldie Hawn has played lovable and honest airheads (CACTUS FLOWERS), able bank robbery assistants ("$"), spoiled brats who find themselves by army service (PRIVATE BENJAMIN), spoiled millionaires who find themselves by amnesia (OVERBOARD), troubled movie stars that gets even - with the help of their friends - on rotten husbands (FIRST WIVES CLUB), and even selfish women who end up gaining immortality - but being locked in a permanent hell with an equally selfish, immortal, female enemy (DEATH BECOMES HER). Most of her films and performances are really good - and she has been one of the few (very few) "Blond Bombshells" with lasting movie power. Personally I think she knows how to choose most of her properties, and that helps. THE BANGER SISTERS is a sensible variant on THELMA AND LOUIS, which Hawn's co-star, Susan Sarandon, made with Geena Davis years earlier. Unlike that classic which ended in a suicidal drive off a cliff by the heroines, this one confronts the issues of individuality reemerging with less destruction as a result. Suzette (Hawn) has just been fired from her job, and is driving in the southwest without any really clear plan for future action. She stops in the desert and picks up Harry Plummer (Geoffrey Rush - with a nicely done American accent in this film). Plummer is a writer at beam's end - suffering numerous emotional quirks and a current writer's block, all of which he blames on his father. It seems nothing Harry ever did pleased his father. He is going to Phoenix, Arizona to confront the old man. Suzette drives him to Phoenix, and after they separate she goes to look up her oldest friend "Vinnie" (short for Lavinia - Sarandon). She finds her friend in an up-scale section of Phoenix, and watches her friend kiss her daughter (older daughter Hannah - Ericka Christensen) good night as the daughter goes off to her high school graduation prom. Sarandon is certainly dressed like a social matron type now - understandably as we later learn her husband (Raymond Kingsley - Robin Thomas) is a highly successful lawyer with political aspirations. But this is unsettling to Suzette - when she knew Vinnie they were palling around Los Angeles twenty years later, and having a raucous old time.Suzette returns to the hotel that Harry is at, and (despite his protests) camps down there in a spare room. Harry is too neurotic to take advantage of Suzette's free-spirit offer of sex, but he does allow her to stay. It's lucky she does - Hannah and her fellow students are at their prom in the hotel, and Hannah had taken some bad "acid" and gotten sick. Suzette steps in to help Hannah with this problem, and then drives her back to her home. And in doing so she confronts Vinnie.Vinnie recognizes Suzette - and totally misunderstands her being there. She thinks that Suzette is there to get money. Quite hurt at this (and an offer to give her $5,000.00), Suzette explains she was just driving Hannah home and leaves. Vinnie learns from Hannah that she took drugs and Suzette helped her. Later that morning the still stiff-necked Vinnie visits Suzette in Harry's hotel room and apologizes (stiffly) and offers to take her to lunch the next day. Suzette accepts.Two plots slowly evolve here. Harry's neuroses towards women crumble as he gets to know what Suzette is like - he even keeps a hot bath for her while she is out driving Hannah back home. Suzette and Vinnie get to know each other and the divide between them as Suzette watches how Vinnie is a control freak over Hannah's relationship with a boyfriend, and on trying to build-up the self-esteem of younger daughter Ginger (Eva Amurri) despite the latter's bratty crying and selfishness. Vinnie notes how all her clothes "are beige" while Suzette looks like a walking flower (because of her free and easy lifestyle).While Suzette slowly gets Harry to emerge from his neurotic cocoon (and even start typing up a literary storm while she is out), she also reawakens long dormant freedoms that Vinnie clamped down on in her rise as Raymond's wife. She ditches her own smart uppity wardrobe and wears a set of Suzette's clothes (in fact it helps matters here that Sarandon, like Hawn, has a really nice figure - they both have very tight pants on, and look quite hot together). Vinnie reveals a treasure trove in her basement - a small box of "special photos" she and Suzette took back when of their favorite musicians*). She even starts smoking (with Suzette) a marijuana cigarette, They even go out to a bar to dance (it takes awhile for Vinnie to get into the swing here). (*The photos are very special - and of special equipment.)But how far can this release go? It upsets Raymond, Hannah, and Ginger to see "Mom" acting so odd. And the constant sight of Vinnie with her family reminds free spirit Suzette of her sacrifice - similar to that of Anne Bancroft vis-a-vis Shirley MacLaine in THE TURNING POINT - of doing what she wanted, and failing to get a family in the process.Also how far will things succeed for Harry? He too is being freed, but he keeps sliding when he meets with some nasty set-back. And there is still the problem of settling the issue with his Dad.THE BANGER SISTERS was not a box office dud, but it never got the notice from critics that were given in 2002 to other films. It is a fun and thoughtful film of how our wild and conservative sides have to make time for each other for us to be totally happy individuals.

Rubens Junior I don't know if I blame the director for making such a trash or if I blame the actors for accepting such a mess! Really, the trailer was something absolutely funny but the movie is an all-the-time-feeling that something is missing.The writing qualities does not respect both Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn. In a world where 50 y.o. is the limit to survive in Hollywood they should provide those best actresses we ever had with their BEST script, their best movie, their best directors, their best writers.When I saw the trailer for the first time I was amazed but when I saw the movie I just turned off the video before its end. That was so shocking for me that until today I cannot understand why... oh, god, WHY they made this sh*t.