When I hear the names Tia and Tamara the first thing that comes into my head is the opening of their show 'Sister Sister' it had-
-these annoying drawings of these crying babies and this obnoxious theme song where they shouts "Sister SISTER!"
And it was grouped in with usually some bad gimmicky family shows, so like a fair amount of people
I always kind of associate them with being gimmicky and annoying
But honestly when you watch the show it's not that bad the two of them had good comedic timing
And they had a good supportive cast that was funny as well
The only thing that got annoyingly old outside of the intro is whenever they would do anything in unison, like say stuff at the same
Time or gasp at the same time or squee at the same time
But I have to be honest as family shows go especially leaning towards kids entertainment. It was fine
Twitches is the exact same thing
There's some funny Creative stuff on top of some corny and gimmicky stuff
and at the center of it are these two actresses who have grown their comedic timing over the years,
can even do the dramatic stuff pretty well and can surprisingly carry a film.
Apart from again, when they have to do anything in unison like say "Go twitches go twitches! It's our birthdays!" Ugh!
Like 'Sister Sister' the movie focuses on the twins being separated at birth, only to accidentally bump into each other years later
Or was it an accident?
This bickering couple who honestly gets more laughs than they probably should are kind of like their guardian angels
They watch them over the years, make sure they don't get too much in trouble
But they alter their courses so that they'll eventually meet in a particularly enjoyable joke where they have to keep dropping clues to get one
Of them in a department store you see these guardian angels and the girls themselves it turns out are magical.
They had to be kept apart - (ala Starwars, ala Harry Potter) to protect them from the darkness -
An especially horrible effect that you sadly have to look at throughout the majority of the film
But thankfully there's a lot of imagination in other scenes for example despite the sisters being very similar they both
Seem to have their opposite sides like one enjoys being up during the day and the other enjoys being up during the night.
One is a writer who writes about this magical world, that it turns out is where they came from -
- and the other is an artist who thinks she's drawing self-portraits, but somehow she feels like it's not her.
On top of that their magic only seems to work when they're close to each other.
Hence why one has a necklace of the Sun and the other has a necklace of the Moon
Little touches like this I guess are obvious, but they're are also a lot of fun.
They show a connection in both relationship and ability as well as make for some great visual storytelling.
Things get even more complicated though when their mother finds out they're alive and *scoff* obvious not bad guy is gonna help her find them.
The funny thing is, for as obvious as some of this dialogue is, these actors really tried their damnedest to pull it off
Listen to this incredibly clumsy exposition done almost perfectly by these two actors who are really giving their hardest;
"Someone has been protecting them."
"You know they were killed in the battle that night with Aaron. My husband, your brother."
"Hero, I have no doubt. But like the girls their bodies never were found, were they?"
That that almost sounded natural.
Even the villain, we look at him, and we know he's the bad guy but look at how charming he is, and how smooth he is.
You actually kind of really want to admire him for how diabolical he can be
But I know it's a Disney Channel movie we're not gonna get that deep.
I mean what these two girls were separated from their parents
And even though they both have step parents, and one even had a step parent and die and replaced with another step parent;
now she's gonna meet her actual mother, come on! They're not gonna address any of this
Actually they do! One of the twins' mother died three months ago
and this other mother has to take over only to discover another mother is thrown into the mix, the real mother.
A good chunk of the emotions you think would follow something like this actually are included.
She doesn't want to meet the actual mother because she's lost so many mothers before.
And even the stepmother she has now is feeling betrayed because she's almost dismissing her.
And the acting from everyone impressively pulls it off!
It's never too heavy that feels like a soap opera, but it's not really ignored either.
It does add a nice sense of drama and make the story feel a lot bigger than honestly it probably has any right to be.
I mean sure it has the lame lines and roll your eyes moments.
But there's not as many as you would think.
In fact a good chunk of the scenes are supposed to get that are supposed to get laughs, do legitimately get laughs.
I really love this one scene where the sister is saying she should be more aware of her surroundings only to look right past her sister and see a sale at a mall.
Look at the way that's shot, that's legitimately humorous
So yeah, for an idea about Sister Sister being witches that battle evil, this is much better than it probably should be.
It's nothing great, and there's dumb moments, but for the audience It's aimed at
there's just enough comedic timing, dramatic moments and creativity to make it pretty good.
If you just ignore the gimmicky scenes where they have to say stuff at the same time,
you might actually find yourself having a fair amount of fun.