Sex and the City - The Movie (Full Screen Edition)

This is movie was surprisingly wonderful. If you liked the televison show you will love this movie. It was not one of those badly scripted, hack job some movies seem to be that try to play off a succesful tv series. This was a wonderful movie with twist and turns and the wedding scene was fantastic and showed the real depth of Carrie. I also have to admit I loved the ending. I don't want to give it away but lets just say that the closet scene with Carrie and Mr. Big is more romantic and real than Casablanca and I watched it over and over and it did not get old. This is well worth buying, it should be a classic keeper.

Love, Love, Love the girls, and Mr Big, yum....
It was very good, better than I thought it would be when (doing a follow up to such a great show). Have friends that really liked it too, and they didn't watch the TV show.

I love the movie so much that I watched it three times in the theatre!

THESE ARE THE ONLY 2 WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS MOVIE, SHOCK AND DISAPPOINTMENT. I AM A BIG FAN OF THE SHOW AND CANNOT BELIEVE HOW DISORGANIZED THIS PLOT WAS. IT WAS LIKE A BIG POINTLESS RUNAROUND. IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING, NOTHING GAINED, NOTHING LEARNED, NO INSIGHT, NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, NO PROGRESSION IN THEIR LIVES. THEY ACTUALLY DID THE OPPOSITE AND REGRESSED. I HOPE THE WRITERS OF THIS MOVIE READ THIS AND TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION IF THEY ARE TO MAKE A SEQUEL. I FEEL LIKE RETURNING THE DVD FOR WASTING MY TIME AND MONEY.

Taken at face value, the movie is seriously flawed. Carrie, Samantha and Miranda make unreasonable demands on their significant others. Samantha and Carrie don't understand when their spouses have to work late. Miranda doesn't have time for Steve (but she has time to go off to Mexico with the girls and help Carrie move). They whine a lot and don't listen to their partners. The men (especially "Big") are...well, nice. We don't see a lot of male ego.

Then there's the lack of mundane reality. Carrie is supposed to be a writer but she lives the lifestyle of an entertainer. And so on.

But SATC was always about fantasy. The show always exaggerated. Remember Carrie's book party? The fashions were always over the top. The women never had families. New York was like an extra character in the show -- ab beautiful city that these women enjoyed to the fullest. And except for Samantha's bout with cancer, nobody really suffered.

So...once you're willing to suspend disbelief and see the movie as mildly amusing satire, it's a lot of fun, with some old-fashioned sentiment mixed in (the New Year's Eve montage of improbably lonely people). The plot is driven by coincidences and accident, not strong characters. I'd have liked to see more of Sanford Blatch and the wedding planner. I wish all the subplots didn't involve the same type of relationship issues; the TV episodes were more creative. We could have done without the "bathroom humor." The Jennifer Hudson character was likeable and cute but not strong or funny.

What makes this DVD 4-stars rather than 3 is Michael King's commentary. He loves the characters and the actors. I think he's a little bit in love with Sarah Jessica Parker. He points out nuances and symbols I missed the first time around. He manages to suggest a show that has some substance underneath the fluff.

Most of all he points out, the show doesn't end the way we would expect. I liked that. I liked seeing the women aging. There's a shot of Carrie looking totally distressed, every line carved into her face.

It could have been worse. A lot worse. Time to say good-by to an innovative TV concept and move, with the characters, into a new stage of life.