After watching the trailer and then enduring this film, I fully believe that this is why the terrorists hate us.
The stars of the hit HBO series reunite with original writer/producer/director Michael Patrick King to deliver this sequel that finds the ladies venturing outside New York City for the adventure of a lifetime. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) are all married now, but they’re still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall) gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they surmise that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to eschew their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
You know what, if I had the choice of being detained in Gitmo and waterboarded about every other day or sitting and watching this movie and the entire series itself, strap that bag over my head and bring on the water. Fuck me, this is just horrific, it’s almost asinine to think that this is even a movie. This is an excuse of a movie so that the leads can fly off and have a vacation paid for by the production company and the fans of the series. What holy hell is the point of this movie? What was the plot? All I got is that the ladies needed a vacation from their oh so stressful lives in New York and flew off to the Middle East to enjoy some culturally insensitive fun in the sun in Abu Dhabi.
Again what the fuck is the point of this movie? All I hear is that these ladies are tired of their ho-hum upper east side lives and their marriages and their children, as if the family and kids things is some sort of out of trend shoe that they need to drop. Hey, sorry but having you all deal with these issues might have been far more interesting than say watching you all dress in the more audacious, designer clothing and ride camels for 2 hours.
I assume that Sex in the City was about female empowerment, this sort of rebirth for women and their daily struggles in the big city of New York which makes for some interesting dialog to be had, but this more of “hey girls let’s jet set to a place where we know nothing about the culture and show those culturally oppressed people how to really live and get spa treatments.” What sort of message or statement is the film trying to make? What sort of pathos can be mined from offensive, situational comedy? Did they really even need to bother with this movie as it is just a means to milk whatever brand this movie still has with the audience? What about the acting and dialog that made the series snappy and witty? Nope, just parodies of what their characters probably said in previous movies and left by the wayside cause the new Jimmy Choo shoes are out.
Sigh, I can’t believe I watched this utter, designer train wreck.
