Sex and the City
June 17th, 2008The movie has been out for a little while, but I thought I would do a review of Sex and the City, having just seen it last week.
To be honest, I wasn’t really a die-hard Sex and the City fan while the show was new. I watched it sometimes because my roommate was in love with the show, but it wasn’t ever really my thing. Because I didn’t want to be lost when I went to the movie, I rented the first few seasons of the show on DVD to re-familiarize myself with the characters.
The good news is this: you don’t have to watch all six seasons of Sex and the City in order to enjoy the movie. You will appreciate the storylines of the movie more if you’ve watched the show, but it isn’t a prerequisite for enjoying the movie.
The bad news is this: dragging your boyfriend/fiancé/spouse to this movie will ensure that you will be required to watch every “manly” movie that comes out for the next few years. During the showing I attended, there were exactly two men in the theater: my fiancé and one other man.
The film itself is very enjoyable and feels like it was made simply because the actresses wanted an excuse to be their characters again (or to do a project together). Sex and the City, the movie, easily could have been stretched out into a seventh season, but it worked just as well as a movie.
There are parts that will make you laugh uproariously, parts that will make you want to cry, and parts that will make you actually cry, and when it is over you’ll feel like there couldn’t have been a more appropriate “ending” to the lives of Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte and Carrie.
