Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood -- PG-13
Starring: Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn
Directed by: Callie Khouri
Showing: Showplace East 11
Say no and stay strong. When your girlfriend slowly approaches you, tilts her head down, looks up with just her eyes in a sad puppy face with all of her cuteness (or not), then asks you to go see the "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," run. Don't barter with her -- her paying for it, massages, sex or whatever -- nothing is worth sitting through this boring, annoying and dull movie. Tell her it's for her own good, because this movie, like many Lifetime Channel movies, will only make her dumber.
"Ya-Ya" is a typical chick-flick, except worse. It's another movie that draws naive women into the theater by baiting their rollercoaster emotions with a feel good mother and daughter story. The funny thing is, the movie doesn't even manage to keep women entertained. Two-thirds of the way through the movie, I heard women in the theater making comments to their girlfriends like: "This movie is boring," "This movie kind of sucks" and "Hey! Wake up!"
Really, the only difference between going to the theater and seeing the "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and staying home and watching the Lifetime Channel is that you can't check the score of the game during the commercials.
The only thing "Ya-Ya" had going for it was its cast. Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn ("Requim For a Dream") and Fionnula Flanagan deliver great performances in this movie. But scenes that had so much potential are lost in a series of flashbacks where a good performance by Ashley Judd becomes null and void by surrounding her with bad actors. "Ya-Ya" could've been an interesting chick-flick had it focused more on the insane and vain ways of the present-day "Ya-Ya" sisters.
So when your girlfriend, or a date asks you to go see the "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood," say "Hell no, woman" and then make her thank you for saving two hours of her life.
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