Watch it or Whine: Sex and the City

May 31st, 2008

Everybody say Hi to our super special guest reviewer, Dr. Ang! **waves furiously so she can see me all the way in Nebraska** I just got back from seeing it too, so I will give my take on it later in the comments section ((pretty much the same as Ang though)) Okay here she goes!:

Saw the movie on Saturday afternoon (while my husband watched Iron Man), and I loved it!! While I didn’t get into the series until the 5th season, I fell in love with it quite quickly, and it’s one of those shows that I can watch any time (even when they cut out the good parts for the syndicated version on TBS). I’ve been waiting for this movie since the series ended in 2004. There may be spoilers in this review, so if you don’t want to know what happened, stop reading right now.


Four years after the series finale, we have finally been given another glimpse into the lives of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte. It is three years later, and the seemingly happy endings are not quite so happy. Samantha has moved to L.A. but runs off to New York every chance she gets (“only for the A-list events”). Miranda and Steve are having a dry spell and he cheats on her. I found this to be a little unbelievable, and I think the writers may have needed to bring some other drama to the story to off-set the Carrie/Big situation (which I will get to). Charlotte and Harry are happy with their adopted daughter, Lily, and (amazingly?) Charlotte gets pregnant. Ok, so this is the only story line that has no real drama. These folks are genuinely happy. Which brings me to Carrie and Big, whose real name we finally learn, but he will always be known as Big. They decide to buy an apartment, then they decide to get married, then Big can’t go through with it…well, for Sex & the City fans this will come as no surprise, given Big’s history.

The clothing, shoes, and accessories were incredible (they even mentioned the Bag, Borrow, or Steal website). The story line was predictable, but still enjoyable. There was a happy ending. The only downside was that it was long, over two hours. I don’t mind watching Sex & the City at home all day long, but I don’t find theater seats that comfortable (at least in the theater that I went to). All in all, I liked the movie a lot. It was nice to be able to re-visit the characters and find out what happened after the series ended. I wouldn’t count on a sequel though.

**applauding** Yay! Thank you! You know any of you other “regulars” are welcome to do reviews anytime you want as well, in fact please do.

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One Response to “Watch it or Whine: Sex and the City”

  1. MMIL on June 3, 2008 6:26 am

    Never watched the show…thought it was stupid and really hated the title. Thanks for the review anyway.

    So, here’s a question based on last night’s viewing experience:
    What is going on with the Academy Award nominations for just plain awful movies? First it was, “No Country for Old Men” and then, last night it was “There Will Be Blood”…both just AWFUL movies. In last night’s instance, FFIL looked at me at 2 hr. and 3 min. and asked, “How long IS this movie anyway?” We still had 35 more minutes and so I started fast-forwarding through the non-speaking sections filled with faux-silent-movie music. Which were abundant–and without purpose. I never did figure out why anything happened, what happened to the town of religious cult members, how could the old man’s grandson possibly be young enough to be a movie star 20 years later when he was a teenager in the beginning? Did the villain ever slit the oil exec’s throat? Where did that baby come from anyway?

    Sorry, I know this is a movie from last year, but I can’t get over the plethora of badly-scripted, poorly-shot movies getting the lion’s share of praise. Okay, so Daniel Day-Lewis was the star…big deal. He was beautiful and wonderful in Last of the Mohicans, and was in his usual top form in this one. But, a bad movie with a great actor is still a bad movie.

    I give both “No Country” and “Blood” 4 UGHs for being bad, don’t waste your time, not even in Netflix, movies. (No time to start on No Country.)

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