The only way you’ll like this film is if you are a die-hard Sex and the City (SATC) fan. Watching this movie is a guilty pleasure. SATC was only on for six seasons, but
it made quite an impression on women and a few men I know. The names Carrie,
Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda will always be associated with this story that
celebrates women, relationships and Manhattan.
The film picks up where the series left off, Miranda making
a family with Steve and little Brady, Samantha making Smith a star, Charlotte happily
adopting a baby with Harry, and Carrie and Big finally a committed couple in
love. As with any relationship, trials arise in the forms of infidelity,
boredom, and marriage, not necessarily in that order or for each of our girls.
The film is rated R for strong sexual content, graphic
nudity and language. It is two hours and twenty-five minutes of indulgence,
particularly when Carrie gets an article and photo shoot about her upcoming
nuptials in Vogue at the insistence
of her editor Enid (Candice Bergen). That bit could have been nixed for me
(boring!), but I can see where it helped set up the soon to be cold feet of
Carrie’s betrothed John Preston, aka Mr. Big (Chris Noth).
Also, that catwalk at Fashion Week: too much. It’s
self-indulgent and boring, the fashions vapid and phony. You can see I’m not
much for the labels!
What does work for me and likely all SATC fans, are the relationships between the women. That’s why we
watch these sitcoms or dramas in the first place, right? Whether it’s from way
back 90210, where the friends are
everything to each other beginning in high school, or Friends, another group of devoted twenty-somethings struggling to
get through life with a few laughs, or the classic Sex and the City, it’s all about friendship, things you don’t get
from your families, or even your partners in life.
That’s why we keep watching. Fiction can showcase truth more
completely than a documentary can, and there are no documentaries about women
in New York City, not like SATC.
Someone once said to me she didn’t like SATC
because the women were promiscuous. It’s fiction! Please! Anyone who’s been in
the dating scene can relate to at least one story line sometime in this run,
and the actresses make it come together to entertain and to make us sad.
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim
Cattrall), Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon)
are now icons. In this film, they continue on in the characters they so
expertly first created for HBO. If you fast forward through the Vogue and Fashion Week fluff, I think
you’ll find a well-rounded story about love, forgiveness, and being true to one’s
own self and heart.
Chick flick? Yes. Don’t invite your man to watch unless the
two of you binge watched SATC
together. Enjoy the movie, and have a Cosmopolitan while you’re at it.
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