Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Whoopi Goldberg returns here as Las Vegas cabaret singer Deloris, who dons her Sister Mary Clarence habit to teach music to a bad-attitude class at a run-down high school. Goldberg delivers the good-education/family-values/follow-your-dream messages with likeable charm, even if the familiar concept is treated in a heavy-handed fashion by director Bill Duke. The chorus nuns from the original film are also disappointingly relegated to mere background this time around. Still, the musical sequences are lively and Maggie Smith gives her usual sterling support as Mother Superior.