New York Post Reviews SATC
Woman everywhere were lining up to see the movie premiere to the ‘Sex and the City’ movie. It was a perfect girl’s night out for many of them who flocked to see Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha drink their cosmopolitans and wear their designer shoes.
There have been many mixed reviews as to whether or not the movie is really good or not. Below is review by the New York Post:
“New Yorkers put up with noise, lack of privacy, tiny expensive apartments and countless other daily insults. But will they shell out 12 bucks for what amounts to a two-and-a-half hour ‘very special’ TV episode of Sex and the City that feels like it was written and directed by an audience focus group in Omaha?
“If the ecstatic reaction at the screening I attended is any indication, they might - at least if they’re not heterosexual males bored by the movie’s endless fashion montages, shameless product placements, lethally slow pacing and utterly predictable plot.”
Elizabeth Weitzman, who gave the film four out of five in the New York Daily News, said the relationships between the cast gives it an edge on the standard romantic comedy.
“Just like the show, the movie is unabashedly enamoured of what Carrie calls ‘the two L’s: labels and love’. But what really makes this story run is an F-word - and no, Samantha fans, it’s not that one.
“The movie’s beating heart is the friendship between the women, who had found some sort of happiness by the show’s 2004 finale. Now they’re all at a personal crossroads and need one another more than ever.”
With a the headline “Sex and the City: Plotless and Pointless” the Village Voice review is less than enthusiastic.“You and I both know that you just must check in with the old girls and their Vuitton bags one more time before they graduate from Botox to assisted living.
“Less a movie than a very long goodbye, at 142 minutes, Sex and the City is basically a whole season’s worth of episodes – or out takes – slung together for no better reason than to squeeze all remaining revenues from a stupendously popular show that got out while the going was good.”
Variety thinks the movie struggled to make the leap from the small screen to the multiplex. “For a series so steeped in romance, the eagerly awaited Sex and the City movie feels a trifle half-hearted.
“Although there’s pleasure in seeing HBO’s fabulous four reunited, writer-director Michael Patrick King doesn’t fully bridge the gap between TV and film – delivering major story flourishes but, too often, playing like a regular episode bloated to five times its customary length.”