Carrie. Miranda. Charlotte. Samantha.
Yep, Sex and the City 2 is in theaters. The second film based on the HBO show grossed $51 million in its first five days, and made an additional $32.1 million in its second weekend on the big screen. For comparison’s sake, the first Sex and the City film pulled in $56.8 million in three days. Why the disparity? Well, these choice quotes from reviews of the film might shed some light…
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“Twelve years, one beloved HBO series, and two feature films on, the Sex and the City gals have been reduced to Bratz dolls for grown women. What was once a playful, pretend-shallow soap opera with pockets of feeling is now shallow for keeps — a dunderheaded comic melodrama with clothes to die for and dialogue to shrink from. It’s downright depressing.”
– Boston.com
“The only thing memorable about Sex and the City 2 is the number two part, which describes it totally, if you get my drift. Everything else in this deadly, brainless exercise in pointless tedium is dedicated to the screeching audacity of delusional self-importance that convinces these people the whole world is waiting desperately to watch two hours and 25 minutes of platform heels, fake orgasms and preposterous clothes. It is to movies what fried dough is to nutrition.”
– Observer.com
“Hey, that little digit, 2, is a sturdy pillar of the franchise going forward and such an imaginative, yet nonetheless practical, extension of the Brand. But the best, most irrefutable reason why Sex and the City 2 deserves one-half a shining star it’s worse than Sex and the City 1, and that alone is a remarkable achievement.”
– The Globe and Mail
“It relies on stupid stereotypes because it’s a stupid movie that’s offensive to virtually everyone. It’s offensive to the demographic it claims to adore — straight women and gay men — who are depicted, more than ever, as hopelessly obsessed with the surface of things, to the point where they forget there’s anything below that.”
– Salon.com
“As I suffered through the nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime of Sex and the City 2, I kept asking myself: What might I have done wrong, in a past life or in this one, that I deserve to have my eyeballs seared by Sarah Jessica Parker’s loony desert-princess getups? To suffer the agony of watching four actresses who have previously given me so much pleasure become undone by crap dialogue and, in one case, an over inflated ego?”
– Movie Line
“The problem with this sequel — and it is problematic — is that it forgets something more basic. Because, the show wasn’t just about sex. It was also about the city. It’s supposed to be Sex and the City. This is Sects and the Souk.”
– NJ.com
“Sex and the City 2 is so over-the-top ridiculous, it plays like a parody of what a sequel to the 2008 hit movie would be. Let’s just say some characters make decisions that are so needlessly self-destructive, they’re infuriating.”
– Washington Examiner
“The film is an epic eyesore. It’s as if they set out to make a movie that said, “You’re right! We are hideous!” It begins with the nightmarish manic gaiety of Mamma Mia! with strenuous lock jawed smiles that make you think you’re watching stroke victims.”
– NYMag.com
“The moment of dread. Twenty minutes in, the movie is already operating at a deficit, and it never recovers. It can’t recover, because it never finds something that it wants to say, or a story that it needs to tell.”
– SFGate
“It has no plot to speak of, little in the way of wit or intelligence, and is about 50 percent longer than can reasonably be justified. The most grotesque aspect of Sex and the City remains the central characters, all four of whom (to varying degrees) are obsessed with the trappings of wealth. They exist to consume.”
– ReelViews.net