I have once again never seen the original show. Judging from the title, I assumed this would have some sex scenes in it and it did. This movie takes place over about a year telling the story of Carrie struggling to marry her boyfriend, Mr. Big. The best part is probably when she flips out after he says he wants to call the wedding off. The acting and characters aren't bad at all. The main problem with this film is that it's just too long.It's two and a half hours! This story isn't complicated at all! From what I heard, there were a lot of things that happened in the show that this movie undid. I guess if I was a fan of the show, I would dislike this more. I admit that everything is portrayed fairly realistically. It isn't really my thing. **1/2

After seeing this several times I still liked it. The plot is a logical extension from where the series left off for each woman and quite humorous, The characters are true and I liked Carrie's assistant as played by Jennifer Hudson. The dialogue is often very clever-funny, i.e. Mexicoma and Pokipsied (sp?) in her pants; the clothes are great except for the bridal bird in her hair, the scenery is fabulous and it all wraps up nicely. So why do so many rate it lower? In my opinion it's dismissed because it is a Chick Flick. Just as I don't enjoy films with people beating each other up or fake monsters, I get why some guys don't enjoy this movie that much but that does not negate its quality. Most people don't like foreign movies just because they are foreign. Doesn't mean they aren't good. So if you liked the series, fashion, clever dialogue, beautiful scenery and/or tidy ends then this is a good movie to watch.

On the next season of Sex and the City (1998-2004), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is about to marry Mr. Big (Chris Noth) but is jilted at the wedding. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) take her on the honeymoon she should have had in Mexico, then she rebuilds her life. Meanwhile Samantha gets used to the challenges of relationship life, Cynthia's bo cheats on her and puts their marriage in jeopardy and Charlotte gets pregnant! Guest starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson and Academy Award nominee Candice Bergen.Yes it reads like the back of a Season 7 DVD packet back because Sex and the City (2008) is just that, another season of the highly celebrated HBO TV Show masquerading as a movie. That in itself, would probably be enough to entice its primary audience and to you I say kudos. Read no further, go enjoy yourselves…are they gone? Ugh. If I may be honest, I liked the four episodes of the show I watched. While I am far from the primary demographic here, I found it kind of refreshing that a show taking place in upscale New York City circa 1998 could conjure up such interesting if vapid characters. That and before Game of Thrones (2011-Present) and The L Word (2004-2009), it was a premium cable show not afraid to show some skin. Plus is it possible for a straight man to find Mario Cantone hilarious? You're darn right! But come on! Was this movie really necessary? The only fathomable reason for this useless, listless piece of chintzy trash to exist is to give anthropologists an ironic before picture of the 2008 financial meltdown. Four aging (but still fabulous, fabulous I say!) women walking around in designer clothes complaining about their dreary upper-crust life, blissfully unaware of the possible hurdles they will have to face in a few months time. If this were real New York, ground zero for the Great Recession, Carrie would be selling her Dolce Gabana pumps for a hot meal. Miranda would be divorced because finances are a bigger reason for divorce rates than fidelity and Charlotte would be on food stamps. So much for happy endings where people find sweet, sweet, love in the big city.This movie attempts to be about love but it really isn't about love at all. If it were it wouldn't have been nearly as episodic or emotionally unaffecting. No this movie is a blatant attempt to cash in on the franchise; calmly stroking the back of those still holding on to Carrie's heyday adventures as if they can live vicariously through the popular author and her sisterhood of traveling mini skirts. Oh, it would be so nice to be able to pay for two different upscale apartments in Manhattan and still have enough cash to hire a token black assistant but as the credits role did you really get any value from this movie? Anything other than the feeling of déjà vu and amnesia I got while watching Sex and the City? I really do feel as if I have forgotten this before.The movie ends in probably the best way it could have. The four girls walking into an exclusive looking club wearing top-line dresses. They sit and enjoy the eldest of the four's 50th birthday with a small cake and martinis as younger women pass by. While the sentimental and the already converted might see this scene as a blissful farewell/passing of the torch, I see it differently. While the ladies toast to the next 50 years, one thought screamed in my head repeatedly "You're old!"http://theyservepopcorninhell.blogspot.com

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).