The Sex and the City 2 movie begins with Big (Chris Noth) and Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) trying to adjust to married life, and wondering how they can keep the sparkle alive between them. When Carrie leaves their apartment for two days and returns to her old apartment to work on a story, Big suggests he get his own place too, so that every week for two nights a week they can spend away from each other.
Big tells Carrie this will help to rekindle their romance by spending more time apart. Carrie doesn’t know what to make of this and feels like Big is trying to push her away.
Samantha (Kim Catrall) is offered a free trip to Abu Dhabi by a business man and she accepts on the condition that she is allowed to bring her girlfriends. Naturally all four girls, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) decide to jet off for a week of luxury in Abu Dhabi to escape their lives.
The hotel they are put up in is extravagant and the girls are catered by the hotel in a completely over the top way. During the movie instead of the viewer seeing the characters family dynamics played out on screen there is a lot of meaningless chit chat that occurs between the girls about their lives, instead of actually watching some suspenseful scenes between the girls and their family lives.
The girls still wear the ridiculous outfits they should have worn 20 years ago and instead of embracing their age they seem determined to appear young and fresh again, and fail dismally. The four girls appear tired with too much botox and cannot pull off the outfits that they once would have.
Unlike the first Sex and the City movie which flowed on well from the TV series and continued to show the girls life’s five years forward, each with their own struggles and triumphs, this movie was stale and stagnant and evidently needed a climax that never delivered.
After nearly three hours the movie should have delivered something memorable, but instead you truly question why this movie was made, certainly not for the fans as it would be made out.
Although throughout the TV series and the first movie it was quite relatable to everyday women, this movie was so downright ridiculous and farfetched it was difficult to watch without constant eye-rolling.
It's understandable that Michael Patrick King wanted to create a full on fantasy to let people escape from their dreary lives after the global financial crisis but it was so completely unrealistic that it bordered on being a pathetic sister act movie that not only makes you question the entire nature of this movie, but the entire series.
And when the four girls started singing I Am Woman the cringe factor was unbearable and the movie lost all self respect, because as much as women’s empowerment is great it seemed so fake and phony.
During the movie, the plot is slow and culturally ignorant, leading the view that America is the country to follow and that all nations, regardless if you are visiting them should conform to the western way of life.
It proved to be a huge letdown, with the storyline beginning with little sizzle and ending sharply on that same note.
With the unrealistic nature of the film and the cultural clashes, this movie just left a whole lot of unanswered questions and a dry taste in the mouth.
Carly Perrett - I have recently completed my studies at the University of Queensland where I received a dual degree and graduated with a Bachelor of ...
