By Kikelomo ONIGBANJO
Bimbo Ademoye came to disturb your peace.
There are some movies you watch with your critic’s cap on (I know right? I’ve done a lot of movie reviews).
Then there are movies that you watch with your IQ on DND.
Sibe belongs squarely in the second category.
First of all, can we discuss that her koshoe? It deserves a full acting credit. In fact, nominate it for Best Supporting Actor. It gave me serious Iya Baraka energy, the kind of woman that can scatter an entire compound meeting with one bombastic side eye and ‘wazz dis’.
Bimbo Ademoye is, honestly, a menace!
I don’t know who taught her physical comedy, but she has cracked the code. The facial expressions. The awkward walks. The dramatic falls. The confidence. The audacity. Every movement looked like someone who grew up watching people and bus conductors fight over change in a Lagos danfo. It’s giving hardcore Egbon Adugbo.
Normally I don’t find many things funny again, but for this one, I laughed so hard I literally rolled on the floor. I kid you not.
Bimbo Ademoye is unserious.
Then there’s Uzor Arukwe.
That man with a huge mole on his face has quietly become one of Nollywood’s most dependable actors. His comedy isn’t loud. He doesn’t need to shout. He simply appears, says a few lines, gives one look, and somehow steals the scene. It is controlled madness, and it works beautifully.
Elesho too? Effortlessly funny. One of those actors who doesn’t even have to try so hard. Just seeing him enter a scene is enough to prepare your ribs for a work out.
One thing I genuinely appreciated in this movie was the portrayal of fathers.
Sibe’s father wasn’t just another angry parent whose only job was to shout. He had personality, frustrations and humour. Natasha’s father was equally memorable. Interestingly, the story allows the fathers to carry a lot of the emotional weight while the mothers remain largely absent. It’s a refreshing dynamic that Nollywood doesn’t explore often.
Now, if you’re the type that likes opening Excel spreadsheets to calculate the value of plot holes in a movie, this review is your cue to close that laptop and pay attention.
Yes, the ghost somehow upgraded her powers halfway through the movie. One minute she’s simply appearing and disappearing like network in a Lagos rainstorm. Next thing you know, she’s doing mind control things like Professor X. Then somehow she’s conveniently unavailable whenever bullets start flying.
Should you question it?
Please don’t.
This isn’t The Godfather. This isn’t a Christopher Nolan puzzle.
This movie is two hours of absolute, beautiful chaos.
It’s the cinematic equivalent of sitting at a buka after salary enters, ordering extra meat because YOLO, and laughing hard with your friends until you temporarily forget that your landlord has been calling since Tuesday.
The story itself is delightfully ridiculous.
Sibe has been fired from several jobs twenty-two times. Yes Twenty-two.
At that point, LinkedIn should be sending her welfare money.
Her father has had enough of her crap and wants to wash his hands off her, but she persuades him to let her move in with his younger brother for a job in the Police. Predictably, she loses yet another job, gives up, heads to church to pour out her frustrations and meets a ghost.
Not just any ghost.
A ghost that, in her lifetime has gotten into 2 shouting matches with Sibe over some nonsense female ego thing.
The ghost recruits Sibe to avenge her murder at the hands of a ruthless crime lord. Naturally, Sibe drags her equally chaotic friends into the mission, and before you know it, we’re dealing with love potions, gun-wielding henchmen, a golden gun, an ‘Oracle’, ridiculous fight scenes and enough nonsense to make you ask, ‘Who produced this madness?’
Thankfully, whoever produced it deserves a handshake.
Because the movie knows exactly what it wants to be.
It isn’t trying to teach life lessons.
It isn’t trying to be deep.
It simply wants you to laugh.
And laugh you will.
You’ll laugh the kind of laugh that makes people in the next room ask, ‘Wetin dey sup?’
You’ll laugh until you forget inflation, fuel prices and the fact that your account balance is currently observing a dry fast.
No, Sibe isn’t perfect.
Yes, there are plot holes big enough to swallow a BRT bus.
But perfection was never the assignment.
Entertainment was.
Rating: 8/10.
