Sex and the City - The Movie (Full Screen Edition)
by Michael Patrick King
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Actor: David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker, Willie GarsonDirector: Michael Patrick King
Brand: Warner
Cinematographer: John Thomas
Composer: Aaron Zigman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 147 minutes
Published: 2008-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Cinema
DVD Reviews of Sex and the City - The Movie (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: Strictly for die-hard fans
Summary: 3 Stars
I used to watch the TV series on HBO on occasion and found it to be (as one reviewer here put it) "light and witty". Sex and the City (The Movie) is much more heavy handed. There were few laughs during the screening I saw. Let's face it, Sex and the City is for the most part a glorified soap opera.
The main plot revolves around Chris Noth's Mr. Big getting cold feet just as he's about to get married to Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie. Mr. Big is nothing more than a big wuss--a one dimensional character who unconvincingly hurts Carrie's feelings at a crucial moment in their relationship. Two thirds through the film, Carrie suddenly realizes that she's responsible for the breakup--that she pushed Mr. Big into having a big wedding even though he didn't want it. But her insight is short-lived. When Miranda reveals that she ran into Mr. Big the night before the wedding and told him how horrible marriage is in general (she's upset because she just had a run-in with her estranged husband), Carrie (very narcissisticly) won't cut her best friend any slack.
I had trouble with the denouement when Carrie and Mr. Big reconcile--I basically had trouble beliving that Mr. Big would have called off the wedding in the first place (he had ample time to call it off before and he knew how much the woman he loved would be devastated had he called it off at the last minute--but he goes ahead and inexplicably does it anyway).
Why also would Mr. Big fall for such a confused person as Carrie, who wanted a showpiece wedding? And then suddenly at the end Carrie sees the error of her ways and now a wedding before a municipal judge is okay? I suppose the happy ending is obligatory in a movie like this but it would have been more intriguing if Carrie had remained true to her neurotic core.
Samantha, whose character has the most comic possibilities, is wasted here. She's stuck waiting for her boyfriend to get back from work with her sushi dinner which she's placed all over her body. Not funny! And I didn't believe for a minute that she would remain true to her boyfriend with sexy hunk Dante beckoning her in every scene.
For awhile, Charlotte has nothing much to do but get sick from the water while in Mexico and soil herself (again not funny!). More predictable shenanigans occur when Charlotte gets pregnant and has a baby (it's all heartfelt but nothing very dramatic).
Finally there's Miranda's relationship with Steve which was perhaps the most realistic part of the movie; although Cynthia Nixon's character oftentimes became too mean and shrill for the audience to have much sympathy for her.
As an actress, Jennifer Hudson will always do best in soap operas (the love fest between Carrie and her character was devoid of any meaningful conflict).
Sex and the City would have worked much better had about 45 minutes of footage been edited from the final cut. Had more thought been put into the plot, it would have been a much better film. Still, the performances are entertaining and it will pretty much keep you interested to the end.
Description of Sex and the City - The Movie (Full Screen Edition)
Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, Evan Handler Directors: Michael Patrick King Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Language: English Subtitles: English, Spanish Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: New Line Home Video DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008 Run Time: 147 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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