YMMV / Sister Act

• Ass Pull: The Finale of the sequel. Specifically, the reactions of the Archdiocese at the end of the film don't match their reactions during the musical number by a long shot.
• Awesome Music:
  • Dear Lord. The Hail Holy Queen sequence in the middle and I Will Follow Him in the end are two of the best songs made for a movie, ever. Inverted with the Stylistic Suck of Deloris' act in the opener of the sequel.
  • Joyful, Joyful, which takes the awesomeness of the above two songs and crams them into one.
• Cliché Storm: The sequel's plot is basically the quirky teacher that the strict authority figures don't get her style of teaching, but she helps the troubled inner city students believe in themselves, then proves all the stuck up authority figures wrong, and saves the school from the corrupt corporate executive, by winning a choir contest.
• Genius Bonus: There are a lot of Catholic in-jokes. For starters, all the songs the sisters jazz up (except for My Guy^note which has new, religious lyrics, but that isn't the same thing and I Will Follow Him) are actual Catholic hymns. Play these films to a bunch of Catholic high school students, and prepare to be unable to hear the actual film over the sound of gut-busting laughter.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The first movie is a huge hit in Japan. "Hail Holy Queen" as performed in this movie in particular is a staple of Japanese school choir, and the movie sees a lot of reruns on television.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The class chanting 'FUSION, FUSION, FUSION' becomes even funnier when you realise that one of the students is played by Deedee Magno Hall, who would later have a starring role in Steven Universe, where the concept of 'fusion' is a major plot point
• LGBT Fanbase: The first movie and the Broadway musical are huge hits with the LGBT community. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—a worldwide organization of drag nuns that do charity for the community—particularly revere the movie, its music, and its message, even though the group predates the film by over a decade.
• Memetic Mutation: "When Jesus WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—"
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: The films feature many unrealistic and silly stereotypes of religious life, but real-world Catholic nuns/sisters are well-known to have a sense of humor about them. One major factor is that the comedy mostly extends to light-hearted ribbing about individual goofy practices, never trying to demean religion or theology as a whole, overall venerating the nuns as being empowered and rightfully proud of their faith.
• Moe: Sister Mary Robert.
• Older Than They Think: Mary Wickes (Sister Mary Lazarus) was in a hit film about nuns AND its sequel almost 20 years previously!
• Retroactive Recognition: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alanna Ubach and Deedee Magno-Hall all have small roles in the sequel. And of course Lauryn Hill, seeing as The Fugees hadn't taken off yet. Also Maggie Smith as Mother Superior may be one for those that know her more as Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter which would come out almost a decade later.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Of Howard Hawks' A Song Is Born, which was itself a musical remake of his own Ball of Fire.
• Trailer Joke Decay: Complained about by Roger Ebert in his review, where he faulted the trailer for giving away all the film's funniest scenes.
• Values Dissonance: Reverend Mother objecting to Deloris smoking in her convent when the two first meet is (presumably) meant to portray the former as stuffy and square. Nowadays, there is much less tolerance for indoor smoking full stop.
  • Would a teacher get away nowadays with telling a 'yo Mama' joke to a student, however humorous and light-hearted it may be?

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