Rated: R
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Cast:
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Kim Cattrall
- Kristin Davis
- Cynthia Nixon
- Chris Noth
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Review - "Sex and the City"
Reviewer: Charise Payne
Rating:
It's been four year since we last saw the ladies of Sex and the City, and whether you loved them, like them, or hated, them you can't doubt the ladies are back. And they didn't come quietly — all five of our favorite ladies are here: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristen Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and the grandest lady — New York City! Like all good dramatic comedies, the movie shoots in with a bang and never let the audience go. The drama, romance, characters, and fashion created two hours of enjoyment.
Sex and the City is at its core a love story between friends, partners and themselves. The film takes you on a journey of loss and discovery, love and hate, and betrayal and forgiveness, all of which makes the film fascinating to watch.
The film begins with Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) shopping for apartments in NYC. The HBO series left off four years ago with Mr. Big telling Carrie she was "the one", and that he loved her. So the next logical steps would be that they move-in together and get married. And that's just what they do; Carrie sells her place and moves into Big's while they are waiting for their penthouse to be finished. And it is while they are at Big's flat that they agree in a very unromantic, business-like fashion to get married.
Carrie is over the moon, of course, because she has finally gotten her wish: she gets to marry Mr. Big. So the wedding plans start, and the girls are brought in to celebrate and help arrange the details. But as this arranging happens and the wedding goes from a small group of 75 to a huge party of 200, Mr. Big starts to get cold feet. He has been married twice before and feels if he has a third large wedding he will look like a schmuck. The idea of marriage scares him; he doesn't want to fail again. The fear grabs a hold of him, and he leaves Carrie at the chapel, mortified, with no groom and 200 guests to take care of.
In true best-friend fashion, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are there to pick her up and put her back together again. They take her on her honeymoon and help her realize that there is life without Mr. Big. When they get back from the vacation, though, all of their lives start to unfold (well, all but Charlotte's — hers is perfect). Miranda and her husband have grown apart, and they have to decide if their love is worth fighting for. Samantha is all but married, something she swore she wouldn't do. She lives her life for a man, and it is killing her inside not to be true to herself. Both girls must decide what kind of life they want and what they need to be happy. And Carrie, well, let's just say she has to find herself and what is important to her before she can move on.
I really enjoyed this movie. I loved the underlying message, which is to be true to you, your friends, and your family, and don't give into the darkness when the bad times hit. Things will work out. The friendships and bonds between the four characters make you want those type kinships for yourself.
The fashion in this film doesn't disappoint; any girl in her right mind would die for the clothes, shoes, and handbags in this film. It was stunning to see and made me want to move to New York just so I could shop where they do. My problem with the fashion is that I felt there was a point when it was too much. I felt I was watching a lot of product placement. And of course, I was, but I didn't like recognizing it. It needs to be less obvious to the audience.
My other issues with the film involve its length and sub-stories. It was two-and-a-half hours long, and it felt like a lot of wasted space. The middle is slow and not productive to the story line. As for the sub-stories, they don't come together well. I liked Jennifer Hudson's character Louise, but her part of the story felt choppy. I would have liked to have seen more meat to her dialogue to understand her character better. And I loved Samantha's one-liners and her cheek, but I felt her character did things that she would not have normally done, and I felt it out of character with the Samantha from the TV show.
Overall, I liked the film. It is a great chick flick that is a lot of fun, and I am sure millions of women around the world are uniting in the Sex and the City cause. If you want to see great friendships, get a laugh or two, and ogle at lots of eye candy in fashion and in the cast, then this film is for you.
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