Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
by James Neilson
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Actor: Binnie Barnes, Dolores Sutton, Mary Wickes, Rosalind Russell, Stella StevensDirector: James Neilson
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Editor: Adrienne Fazan
Producer: James Wharton
Producer: William Frye
Writer: Blanche Hanalis
Writer: Jane Trahey
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-11
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
DVD Review: Lame sequel in every way possible.
Summary: 2 Stars
When this movie opens, you get a snappy little theme song by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. It's all downhill from there folks as we travel across the USA on a road trip with the girls from St. Francis,as they make their way to a big rally out west.
If you haven't seen The Trouble With Angels, then you might like this quickie fast food sequel. Unfortunately, for those of us who did see the first film, this one pales so much in comparison and is such a major disappointment of the first degree, that I can't see any way to give it a passing grade. While we do get some returning characters, the sisters played by Rosalind Russell, Mary Wickes and Binnie Barnes, and Marvel Ann played by Barbara Hunter, we get none of the charm, zero amount of depth, and a story that does nothing more than move from one gag to the next. It's almost as if they only watched a third of the first film, and decided for some reason to just duplicate that and the heck with the rest of the story. It doesn't work.
Rosalind Russell, reprising her role as the Rev. Mother, does okay with what she has to do here which is basically catch Rosabelle (Susan St. James) and Marvel Ann when they're up to no good, and to argue with hip Sister George (Stella Stevens) when the occasion arises. She is never required to show any of the emotion as she did in the first film since the script doesn't call for any nonsense like that to slow it down.
We immediately have a problem with the fact that the Marvel Ann character in the first movie was completely different then she is here. Instead of being a distinct opposite of her cousin Mary from Trouble With Angels, now she aspires to be just like her pulling one prank after another. On top of that, you have to deal with the fact that while Mary graduated in the first film, and Marvel Ann was at the school for the same amount of time as Mary, Marvel Ann is still chugging along at St. Francis with the nuns. Did I miss something?
Late in the film we also get a conflict between Rosalie and Marvel Ann that threatens to break up their friendship. It's such a minor conflict as compared to what happens to the girls at the end of the first film, we just sort of shrug are shoulders and go on. We know they will resolve this one easily enough, right after the next silly sight gag.
There is a major conflict between the Rev. Mother, who is set in her ways, and radical Sister George, throughout the film. This might have been played better if we had the least amount of understanding and sympathy toward Sister George, but we are given no insight into what makes her tick, so she ends up coming across as nothing more than an annoying whiner. I wish they had made the movie more about this conflict instead of spending so much time on Rosabelle and Marvel Ann. Then maybe we would have found more out about what is going on with Sister George. I don't fautl Stella Stevens. She tries, but like everything else in this film, the script never calls for even a modicum of in depth personality.
In the first film, the outsiders were also there for the specific purpose of moving the story along. Here, we get Milton Berle, Van Johnson, and Robert Taylor, whose sole purpopse is to be there when the school bus carrying the girls needs to make a pit stop, and set up the next gag. There's also that great actor Arthur Godfrey, who shows up as the Bishop that sends the girls on their way.
If all this wasn't bad enough, what kind of a big finish do we get? We get the dreaded voiceover by Rosalind Russell telling us how it ends. This is the ending they give you in movies when they can't figure out any other way to wrap things up without spending any more of the studio's cash.
If you have never seen The Trouble With Angels, like I said, you might enjoy the Disney type antics, the marshmallow plot, and the cookie cut out characters. If you have seen The Trouble With Angels think of it as being the Mona Lisa and Where Angels Go Trouble Follows as the kindergarten finger painting equivalent.
Like The Trouble With Angels, this film is also relased only in a full frame version. That's also a big no-no these days. Honestly though, I wouldn't buy this film in any format. Stick with the original.
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