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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Sex and the City really is a fabulously entertaining film. It's nothing that will win an Oscar or anything, but if you like the essence of Sex and the City, then you'll love this movie. The cast of course includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristen Davis, and Kim Cattrall. The four go through some pretty substantial changes in their lives during this film. The moxie mainly focuses on Carries relationship with Big. But it also contains subplots like Miranda's marriage, and Samantha living in California with her beau. I have not watched the TV show yet, but I still really enjoyed the movie. I liked it because it is funny, romantic, and has some dramatic aspects too. The writing was pretty well done and I liked it, it worked for the film. Fans will not be disappointed. The costume design of course is absolutely heavenly! The fashion was always a huge part of the TV show. The shoes, the dresses, everything. The actresses had great chemistry throughout and I think Carrie and Big make a great couple, theirs is a relationship to root for during the movie. The other women and their subplots have things going on that make you root for them in end. I suggest this for a fun girls night! Of course guys can enjoy it too though. 8/10 for Sex and the City.

Before any of you accuse me of being a furry-legged feminist, I'm going to admit I may have furry legs, but I'm a guy. So stick that in your Bic and smoke it. I don't even know what that means.As my opening sentence might imply, I was offended by this movie because, unlike the groundbreaking TV series that spawned it, a series which didn't just flaunt girl-power but was actually a nice spin on human independence across all genders, Sex and the City the Movie is just a regurgitation of the age old Hollywood obsession with getting married as the pinnacle of human achievement. In other words, the entire plot centers around Carrie acting like a giddy (or depressed) schoolgirl consumed with nothing but the idea of marriage. Not even romance, I'm talking about just plain old walk-down-the-aisle marriage.Endless montages of wedding dress tryouts set to 80s music (not even the good stuff) are so laughably cliché, I thought for a minute I was watching the deleted scenes from Grease. The difference is that Carrie is not a beauty school dropout; we are supposed to believe (as it is repeatedly shoved in our faces) that she is a stinking rich, successful woman who ostensibly has the brains and ferocity to conquer New York City by herself, and yet when a marriage prospect enters the picture, she turns into a quivering, braindead reject from a George Romero flick.OK, but when life suddenly takes a downward turn for her, I sat up and thought: "Ok! Now this is where her character develops a soul." This is where the out-of-touch elite socialite comes crashing back to humanity and is forced to deal with the same problems that us regular schleps must deal with on a daily basis. Y'know, things like fixing our miserable lives by using our brains.Oh wait, she and her friends just throw money around, pay people to repair the damage and go back to shoe shopping like nothing ever happened.Are you familiar with the term "deus ex machina"? It's a theater term from ancient Greek days meaning "God on the machine" and it refers to a type of conflict resolution where some twit dressed as God is lowered onto the stage on a goofy contraption so he can wave his hands and fix the entire mess. Well, here the recurring moral of the story seems to be "Dior ex machina," or "rich people don't have problems like you worthless schmucks who wallow in trivial things like... bills."Building on that, let's take a minute to talk about how out-of-touch this movie is with social issues: the flamboyant gay stereotypes for comic relief, the use of a pit bull to denote a bad neighborhood, the token black chick introduced in the 2nd half (but note the segregated parties she attends, not the rich folk). This movie is so out of touch with real life you'd think the screenplay was a collaboration between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The amount of fur worn in this movie should speak for itself. Note: fur never looked good on anyone. Does anyone really think looking like a frickin grizzly bear hobbling down 5th Avenue is sexy? Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattral look as dopey in fur as Orson Welles in that scene in Citizen Kane, only Kane was supposed to look stupid.10'll get ya 20, this was not written or produced by the people who gave us the TV series. It was a different crew of Hollywood goofballs who beat the series into the antiquated box office formula that's been around since the Stone Age. (Yup, just checked, different people altogether).In the end, I was so thoroughly aggravated by this movie, a total corruption of the TV series which I had enjoyed but am now starting to question, that I immediately wrote a letter addressed to Hollywood stating: "Dear Hollywood, I respectfully submit my request to punch Sex and the City. No, not just the people in it, I want to punch the entire collective entity." Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to practice my left hook.

A guilty favourite for sure. I remember the first time I saw this being surprised by how good it was. I went in not expecting much as I didn't think there was enough material based on a simple TV show to warrant a two and half hour long movie about shoes and sex. But this sucked me right in with surprising depth to all the converging stories of the girls (and their boys) while covering a host of real life issues.My only problem would be the excessive wealth all the characters seem to have amassed "that pillow cost 400 dollars", the apartment Big buys and outfits with a gynormous closet, Carrie's Vera Wang wedding dress, her new assistant. It was fantastical, which may have been just the point. This is a fantasy.Ultimately if you're a fan of the HBO series than you will love this, its funny, sad, frustrating and will have you cheering with some great HEA's (although I wouldn't have been able to forgive ---...again, but what a moment) 12.30.13

Every time I watch the Sex and the City movie (which is quite often, really), I finish up with the same question: Why is everyone so mad at Miranda for leaving Steve?Steve cheated on her. To me, that's the biggest betrayal possible besides, I dunno, him hurting her kid physically somehow. I don't get why her friends are always trying to get her to go back to him, to consider forgiving him, etcetera. I mean, they should know that it might be possible in future for her to forgive him...but why the pressure to do it quickly?At one point, Charlotte asks Miranda: "Are you sure you can't give him another chance?" and then somebody (perhaps Miranda?) says, "What about Carrie? Do you think she should forgive Big?" and Charlotte exclaims, "NO! Of course not!" because, um, Big left her at the altar. Yeah, that was bad, but was it as bad as cheating on her with another woman?I'm not saying that one should never forgive something like that. I'm just saying that I think these ladies have some weird priorities. And I think it's weird that Miranda's friends would encourage her to put up with being so horribly disrespected, but never entertain the thought that Carrie could forgive Big for the public humiliation of jilting her. I guess at least Steve didn't humiliate Miranda in public, right?I just don't get it, and perhaps I never will.BUT...I still love this movie...way, way more than I love the second one (i.e. I don't love that at all).