Poor Carrie. A lack of drama does not a movie make. But at least she gets away with just having one illicit kiss with ex-whatever Aiden. (Am I the only one who never bought that relationship?) So, Sex and the City 2 doesn’t find Carrie and her girls “happily ever after”, but, what the hell, the drama is short and the glamour is long. The point of Sex and the City, to me, was never to be realistic, to explore feminism, to show a true-life exposé of single women in the city. It has always been a grown up Archie comic with silly dialogue, unrealistic plots and glorious colors. So with that in mind, I loved Sex and the City 2. I loved Stanford and Anthony’s Big Gay wedding, loved Liza singing “Single Ladies”, loved the gals walking through the desert in Couture, loved Samantha screaming at Muslim men that she has sex and humping the air to illustrate. The scenes make the movie, not the story. If anything I wish that Michael Patrick King had just gone all the way with the lazy plot and tossed it out the window of the first class airplane to Abu Dhabi. The movie would have been even better if it had been presented Archie Digest style with a different story every few pages.
Which I guess would be a TV episode.
Fuck it. So, Carrie has to learn what marriage really meant. So, Miranda learns to be appreciated. So, Charlotte is threatened by her Nanny. So, Samantha loves dick AND is going through menopause. It’s another two and half hours I got to spend in the reality defying “real” world of Sex and the City. I know in my heart that it was a bad movie, but even deeper in my heart I wished it had gone on 10 hours.
You just have to be the right kind of girl I guess. Was that sexist? Some people would think Sex and the City and Archie are too. Those people don’t know what fun is.
I give this movie 4 Drag Beyonce’s.
2 comments :
P - awesome review. I didn't even know it was up! Nice job. I imagine this is the perfect way to look at this movie.
oooh man, I used to love Archie Digest!
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