I was looking for anything to do tonight, so i looked through my dvd movies. I picked out a copy of The Sex and The City Movie. It truly was wonderful. It picked up a few years later, after the tv series had concluded. Carrie gets engaged to Big, Miranda deals with married life in Brooklyn, Samantha deals with life in L.A. and being monogamous with Smith, and Charlotte and Harry are taking it one day at a time with their adopted daughter Lily and end up with an amazing surprise.
There are moments of heartache and hard times but just like in the tv series, the strength of these four womens’ friendships is what helps them through life. The style, just as in the series, is cutting edge and as interesting as the characters. There is an surprising montage when Carrie plays dress up in designer wedding dresses for a mag layout and the girls attend fashion week later in the movie. Carrie ends up paying a personal assistant and Jennifer Hudson was a great addition to the cast of actors.
For critics who’d like some meat in a movie pressing 180 minutes, though, it’s satisfying to report that this Sex is more than just a fan dance. They are all over 40 nowadays, and writer/director Michael Patrick King deftly balances their hard spent wiseness with the bittersweet dreams they still share. Simultaneously, there’s good deal of fun to be had. A vision of which doesn’t demand its characters being fixed in amber after a fairy tale ending and lets life to go on, happily and unconventionally.
On the flipside It’s simply that there’s been an altitude modification — fewer stilettos, more flats. Ask what women need of a chick flick and one response may be this — a pleasant reunion with cherished friends. Ask what women deserve and the answer is better. In both its TV and movie embodiments, the void materialism and sincere longing for love constantly manage to scratch each other out, leaving behind nothing but what this started out as — a sitcom.
But as a whole Sex and the City blu ray dvd is worth addition to your collection, so give it a good watch. It’s not as good as the TV show but will still thrill fans of the original show.
