I’ll be man enough to admit that “Sisterhood…” was not as stupid as I’d thought it would be. For a film that takes off from “Stand by Me”, “Now and Then”, and a plethora of other bonding coming of age crap, “Sisterhood” is watchable. And no, it’s not only because of the gorgeous cast, but because it’s interesting, and well written. Some of the sub-plots are more interesting than the others, but it was based on a book. So, somehow that warrants it should be adapted to a film. “Mein Kampf” was a book too, will we see a film about that? Has there been a film about that? I’ll check in a minute.

Either way, “Sisterhood” is about four really hot friends (Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively) who grew up together in spite of having nothing in common, yet still found the time to bond and stay close. So, since they are all splitting up for the summer they decide to find a way to stay close by in spirit. One day in a clothes shop, a pair of jeans they discover fits all of them. They decide they’ll send the pants to each other and wear them through, what will obviously be “life changing”, and “coming of age” experiences. How one pair of pants bonds them together, no one knows. Maybe ass hair and dead skin links people after all. The jeans become a character as it travels from place to place with new adventures of the girls and their romances. You’ll need a dentist by the time you’re finished watching this simply because it’s just so sweet and light.

As an escapist dramedy, it’s fascinating to watch, and for the simple fact that the actresses featured in the principal cast are talented. And hot. But we covered that. With Bledel, Lively, Tamblyn, there are surefire interesting sub-plots, the most interesting being with Tamblyn whose emo character learns about loving life when a young girl (Jenna Boyd) insinuates herself in to her life. But the stand out performance here is given by America Ferrarra the very talented actress who plays a young girl whose father left her family when she was a child and spends the summer with him only to find out he’s moved on. One of the most powerful moments involves Ferrarra’s character calling her dad (Bradley Whitford) and confessing all her anguish and sadness in tears. For that scene alone, “Sisterhood” is a cut above the rest.

“Sisterhood” sadly knows its core audience, and it knows the core audience it’s trying to reach, so for the fact that it zeroes in on them, it also automatically alienates half of the other audience. Even Lively in panties won’t keep male audiences watching what is obviously nothing but a teenage chick flick with little appeal to the male audience. It’s a brutally sappy and utterly saccharine bit of fluff that’s pure fantasy and never resembles anything known as reality, and that’s why it will be adored by the women folk. All the characters oddly find someone of interest, all the characters rarely have humongous traumatizing problems and all of them are split up in to obvious categories that will speak to one of the sub-sections of the female demographic.

It’s also reliable because it’s just so predictable. The girls conveniently meet the perfect men, they conveniently people nice enough not to give them a large amount of problems, they conveniently find a way to make the situations in their life work out, and everything works out as it should. We know Tibby will grow to adore Bailey, we know she will have some affliction, we know Ferrarra’s life will go back to order, we know Bledel’s romance with the son of a rival family will settle itself and rivalry suddenly cleared up for the sake of the two lovers, and we just know it will end in one final shot of all of them before the film ends ala “Waiting to Exhale” and “Steel Magnolias”.

The adaptation of "Sisterhood" is really nothing but a very sappy and predictable chick flick, but it worked as an entertaining passable yet experience because of its talented cast, strong performances particularly by Ferrarra, and an endearing story.

• Hillary Duff considered the role of Tibby.

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