Sex and the City

Get Carried Away.

Many (great) television shows have been made into fairly decent films in Hollywood – The X Files, South Park, Miami Vice, Mission: Impossible, even The Simpsons Movie. Sex and the City (the movie), however, is not one of them.

I’m not a fan of the show, but I have seen a few episodes and can say that the show is pretty good, it’s raunchy and it’s about sex (from women’s perspective of course), but that perspective is the key element of the show, and that is what makes the show also interesting for male audiences. Almost as if someone on TV was giving us free lessons on what modern day women really want.

The film, however, is different. The film Sex and the City is about finding love rather than finding (new) partners, which ultimately made the show. The plot: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker who looks better than ever @ 43) and the girls are back, 4 years after the TV show ended, and Carrie is finally getting married…yep…let’s leave it at that since the entire plot revolves around finding love and (finally) getting married, almost as if the producers are trying to send the audience – the people who grew up with the Sex and the City series – a message. Of course there are funny parts, and some are quite hilarious, but the majority of the film feels like an over-the-top advertisement for dozens, if not hundreds of designer labels, every which gadget made by Apple (iMac, MacBook, iPhone, iPod etc.) topped off with the brief but prominent debut of the new Mercedes-Benz SUV. Oh yes, did I mention the disturbingly poor cameo by Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson as Louise from St. Louis who loves Louis (Vuitton)? Corny, right? I can only guess that Hudson was in the film solely in response to criticism of the TV show as being too “white”, but is the best response to such criticism really inserting a character that is so obviously a token?


* * (two out of five) – a few decent jokes but is overall flat and poorly composed.



Enjoyed Sex and the City? Viira recommends: The Devil Wears Prada, Sideways, Sex and the City (HBO original series).



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