Wellllll I went to see Sex and the City2 and it was 2 long, 2 dumb, 2 short on plot, 2 predictable, and 2 cartoonish.
If this site was Rotten Tomatoes I would give it 3 rotten tomatoes which by the way is pretty close to what the movie has gotten on that site. As of tonight, Sex and the City2 has received 150 rotten tomatoes out of 179 reviews. I knew that it had been getting bad reviews but I really did want to see it. I DID enjoy the first movie and well I did hope that this one would be somewhat good. NOT!
It was too long, it dragged in places, the clothes that Carrie wore throughout the first part of the movie were ugly, Mario Cantone was totally wasted in the movie – I don’t mean he was wasted, I mean his talent was wasted. He had the most inane lines, what a disappointment! The wedding scene was so over the top gay that it was a cartoon.
When the show was on, the characters almost seemed believable; maybe because at that time, I had my daughter Chiara living with me and she and her entourage looked the part, dressed the part and partied the part! BUT in the movie tonight I felt like I was watching a cast of reality show contestants; there was Carrie and Mr. Big as the hip New York childless couple, Miranda as the smart control freak, more lawyer than lover and mother, Charlotte the obessive by the rules girl, feeling guilty because she thinks she’s supposed to feel guilty and of course Samantha the over-sexed going over the hill 4th. Samantha was probably the most caricatured character of them all. The woman who loved to love men on the show was now portrayed as an aging, hormone junkie who sits at her desk with her panties around her ankles, rubbing cream into her V Jay Jay! There is nothing attractive about a crude mouthed menopausal nymphomaniac (nymphomania is a mental illness).
Now if the movie was supposed to be a spoof, a comical satirical view of not so young single women who mostly were not single anymore, then you could overlook the over the top portrayals – but it wasn’t that kind of movie. It took itself much more seriously than that. Carrie and Mr. Big reveled in their special two-ness, their just me and you-ness.
As far as a fashion statement, I thought the clothes worn by the girls when they were in Abu Dhabi were wild and interesting and for the most part flattering. AND I guess we can expect to see that four leaf clover necklace on every pre-teenage girl in the coming months.
Carrie's Four Leaf Clover necklace
My advice – wait till it comes out on DVD and rent it. It’s not worth the price of a ticket (at least not here in New York City).
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Wellllll I went to see Sex and the City2 and it was 2 long, 2 dumb, 2 short on plot, 2 predictable, and 2 cartoonish.
If this site was Rotten Tomatoes I would give it 3 rotten tomatoes which by the way is pretty close to what the movie has gotten on that site. As of tonight, Sex and the City2 has received 150 rotten tomatoes out of 179 reviews. I knew that it had been getting bad reviews but I really did want to see it. I DID enjoy the first movie and well I did hope that this one would be somewhat good. NOT!
It was too long, it dragged in places, the clothes that Carrie wore throughout the first part of the movie were ugly, Mario Cantone was totally wasted in the movie – I don’t mean he was wasted, I mean his talent was wasted. He had the most inane lines, what a disappointment! The wedding scene was so over the top gay that it was a cartoon.
When the show was on, the characters almost seemed believable; maybe because at that time, I had my daughter Chiara living with me and she and her entourage looked the part, dressed the part and partied the part! BUT in the movie tonight I felt like I was watching a cast of reality show contestants; there was Carrie and Mr. Big as the hip New York childless couple, Miranda as the smart control freak, more lawyer than lover and mother, Charlotte the obessive by the rules girl, feeling guilty because she thinks she’s supposed to feel guilty and of course Samantha the over-sexed going over the hill 4th. Samantha was probably the most caricatured character of them all. The woman who loved to love men on the show was now portrayed as an aging, hormone junkie who sits at her desk with her panties around her ankles, rubbing cream into her V Jay Jay! There is nothing attractive about a crude mouthed menopausal nymphomaniac (nymphomania is a mental illness).
Now if the movie was supposed to be a spoof, a comical satirical view of not so young single women who mostly were not single anymore, then you could overlook the over the top portrayals – but it wasn’t that kind of movie. It took itself much more seriously than that. Carrie and Mr. Big reveled in their special two-ness, their just me and you-ness.
As far as a fashion statement, I thought the clothes worn by the girls when they were in Abu Dhabi were wild and interesting and for the most part flattering. AND I guess we can expect to see that four leaf clover necklace on every pre-teenage girl in the coming months.
Carrie's Four Leaf Clover necklace
My advice – wait till it comes out on DVD and rent it. It’s not worth the price of a ticket (at least not here in New York City).
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