Sex and the City
Movie Review

I was an avid fan of the TV series. What I most enjoyed about the show was that I felt it presented conundrums of the female heart in a different light; a light a little less cliché, less stereotypical, more witty and decidedly more glamorous. The conundrums did not have plainly obvious solutions and they were always surrounded by thought-provoking introspection. I felt a connection to the show, such that if I were in the situations that the protagonists found themselves maybe I would think and react in the same ways they did (at least I hoped that to be the case). I wanted to have friends like Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte, full of unconditional support. In other words, I have been waiting for months for the movie to premiere.
Unfortunately the movie lacked almost all the characteristics that I loved from the show. The length of the movie (2 hours and 20 minutes) was not justified by the intricate yet stupid plot. There were many tangent scenes of the movie that were merely time fillers that had nothing to do with the plot and only served the purpose of reinforcing stereotypes of womanly vanity (For example: when Louise and Carrie exchanged Xmas gifts!!??!) Samantha ultimately proved that she was too selfish to love anybody but herself, Miranda never fully emerged from her rigid self-righteous blindness or addressed the issues that led to the almost death of her marriage and Charlotte was so freaking perfect half of me wanted to have her life and half of me wanted to vomit. I could not identify with any of the protagonists and I did not want to have friends like them.
The blow that finally spearheaded Sex and the City’s fall from grace in my mind was the horrible plot. The plot slowly moved/dragged around problems with plainly obvious solutions, copious heaps of vanity and people with egos too big to fit in New York City. There were a couple of funny moments, but the movie actually ends where it begins due to a lack of character evolution. Towards the finale, I was left with a sense of intense dissatisfaction. I felt cheated by this movie because it lured me in under false pretenses. I saw this movie with a group of friends and as we were leaving the movie theater the quote that best summed up our feelings about Sex and The City was “I think I’m depressed”.