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Old 06-03-2008, 08:22 PM
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My wife made me watch it! We made a pact: she sees a Jackie Chan movie with me in exchange for me watching S&C with her. Alas, the stars of the successful HBO series that ran for what… 6 years? are back together again for another glorified episode. One of the reasons for its success was that they had four women that are completely different, so every viewer could relate to at least one of them. We had the main character, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), a writer of “Sex & The City” column in a major newspaper, where she’d write her thoughts about love, relationships and marriage and actually using “real-life” stories of her three friends, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, in her articles. Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is a lawyer and a single mom. Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) is PR specialist and probably the most outgoing woman in TV history - she never gets enough. Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is a conservative girl who believes in perfect marriage, she’s all about doing everything right and straight, and pretty much has her head in the clouds. Charlotte was my favorite girl. The series was about these four women-friends who try to find happiness in the big modern city - New York.

I saw some of the original series’ episodes and in the beginning I liked it. But as series progressed I began to dislike the story and the characters until eventually I began to despise them. Why? As in “The Real House Wives of Orange County”, it’s basically smart, educated, wealthy middle-aged women trying to keep themselves happy. Since they fail at every relationship, they try to make themselves feel better by doing the only thing a real American patriot can do - shopping.

The plot: The movie picks up where series left off. It begins with a slide-show briefing of where characters were in their lives when the series ended. Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) married a wealthy Scottish guy, it didn’t work, she became Jew and married a Jewish lawyer - her divorce attorney Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler). They adopted a little girl from China. Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) reunited with her boyfriend Steve Brady (David Eigenberg), who’s also father of her son Brady. Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) moved to Hollywood with her boyfriend and protege, actor and male model Jerry ‘Smith’ Jerrod (Jason Lewis), who had been with her all the time when she was going through chemo-therapy in the series. And finally, Carrie Bradshaw is engaged to the character known in the series as “Mr. Big” (Chris North from Law And Order: Criminal Intent). In this big-screen “episode”, the relationships of all four women are put to the test.
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Review: Sex And The City (2008) R 148min
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:10 AM
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My wife likes Sex and the City. While i like the sex scenes, I think it's over-rated.
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