Sex and the City: The Movie
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I'm willing to bet that when New Line signed writer/director Michael Patrick King to write the "Sex and the City" movie, company executives didn't expect to get an entire season of the show.
But, rather than a film -- 90 to 100 minutes or so of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) waxing poetic about love and life in the big city as they wax their bikini areas -- we get this 2 hour, 24 minute (or so) behemoth.
That's five episodes worth, give or take, and they very easily could be split up into 22-minute segments and plopped right on HBO virtually uncut.
Don't get me wrong: Much of it is good, and a lot of it is very good, but there's just so much of it. The film shoots out plot tangents as fickle as Carrie's footwear preferences.
King spins a lot of plot threads, and he takes his time in resolving them.
We have Carrie planning her wedding to Big (including selling her old apartment, buying a new one with her fiance and remodeling it), Miranda and Samantha each having domestic issues, Charlotte dealing with an unexpected development of her own, the girls taking a vacation, and Carrie hiring a new assistant (Jennifer Hudson of "Dreamgirls").
Plus they all have to be there for each other.
And when things start dragging, King even turns to pubic hair and poop jokes.
But, as the show so ably did during its best times, "Sex" shows that -- try as it may to convince you you're watching mindless fluff -- it very accurately and in a relatively grown-up manner depicts the hardships, joys and pratfalls of life in the big city.
Sure, the guys are almost exclusively man candy (including Big, whose fears and motives are never really explored), and it's more about the women learning how to forgive the men who shattered the fairy-tale expectations dropped on them from their first childhood bedtime story.
Still, the film could have used an edit or two, trimmed out a good 20-plus minutes, and been all the better for it.
But of course "Sex" is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's good.
Sex and the City: The Movie
Rated: R.
Time: 144 min.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth.
rated r, Sex in the City, sarah jessica parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth
adamanddiana : RE: Sex and the City: The Movie More..
I loved it!!!!! I went and had a girls night with my best friend. We laughed, I cried and we both just LOVED IT!!!!!!!
I never would have believed it, the film beat out Indiana Jones at the box office this weekend! It doubled industry expectations!
I was one of the fanatics who stayed up until 12:01 a.m. Friday to be one of the first. While I don't feel the film was stellar, it was sweet and satisfying. I left the theatre knowing my gals were happy and in good places.
Now that is the catch to Sex and the City. Women really care for the characters, and I was one of the nimrods in the audience crying when Big stood Carrie up. Like I knew it wouldn't happen. And I wasn't the only one.
I agree with most of the reviewer's points, especially the length.
I felt that Jennifer Hudson was wasted in the film. There needed to be either more or less of her. Like the guys, she was just an accessory. And I just didn't buy the whole premise of her moving to New York for love. I've been to Manhattan, and she'd probably find better prospects in Atlanta. Yeah, she scored a Louis Vitton bag, but I can't imagine her plus size figure tottering down Park Avenue in a pair of Blahniks. Break out the Spanx!
As for future films, yep, I'll go to them, but I hope they stop at this point. I like a happy ending.
Nina Mehta : RE: Sex and the City: The Movie More..
Well also, what was MP King trying to say about finding love in NYC? Seeing as Louise found it elsewhere... I suppose it was perhaps a mirror of what was to come for Carrie and not much else.
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