- Up front, all four women end up where you pretty much expected them to: Carrie with Big; Miranda grudgingly with family life in Brooklyn; Charlotte with a biological baby; and Samantha in a relationship with the most important person in her life, i.e. herself. Which is mostly not all that different from how the show ended. Also, no one died, so we can put that rumour to rest.
- I always hated Anthony in the series but he was kind of fricken awesome in this and I like to think that he and Stanford have made their peace and ended up together. They were kind of cute at the New Year’s party.
- I kind of hated all the travel in this movie. Samantha in sunny Los Angeles! The girls in Mexico! I know this just further emphasizes how much New York is a part of their lives, but blah.
- I know a lot of the fashion in the show was rather hit or miss, but there is a lot of fugly clothing in this movie. My absolute favourite piece is some sort of shirt dress thing that Carrie is wearing at her apartment (I think when she’s moving out) that’s this hideous print of a fabric with these giant ass fake jewels (I’m talking like two or three inches long) in a strip down the front. WHAT IS THAT. At least they later mocked the feathered contraption she was wearing on her head during the wedding.
- It was funny because at the start when Big and Carrie decided to get married, I was very pleased that it was a mutual decision and that there was no ring, no bended knee, and no taking the other person by surprise, because, really, I don’t believe in proposals. Carrie tells Big she just wants a really big closet in lieu of a ring and he gets it for her and you never see an engagement ring on her finger at any point in the movie. I thought this was great. Then everything falls apart, they don’t get married, blah blah blah. THEN at the end of the movie he’s all “We should have done this properly, there should have been a bended knee, and a diamond to seal the deal, blah blah blah” and I just threw up my hands in disgust.
- Speaking of which, how on earth do you bring yourself to marry someone who LEFT YOU AT THE ALTAR? I don’t care how many love letters you’ve written in apology over the following year and I don’t care if once you decided to jilt your loved one you immediately change your mind and try to get back to the wedding, you’ve already made that decision. I think Carrie kind of really fails. But I always think that Carrie fails, so that’s nothing new.
- Charlotte was super fierce in this. Loved it. Her kid, on the other hand, while cute was annoying and extraneous in showing up in every scene. Did love when she answered Carrie’s phone and said “Sex”, though.
- Speaking of extraneous children, what was with that one scene where the four of them were out for dinner and you could see Brady in the background just minding his own business, as if he was someone else’s kid at another table?
- Did anyone else think Big was drunk through the entire movie? During that scene on the terrace at the new penthouse when he started walking towards Carrie to “colour outside the lines”,
and I were like “He’s clearly drunk.” Except… apparently he wasn’t. - Carrie calling him “John” weirded me out.
- The guy who plays Smith is a terrible actor.
- Jennifer Hudson = completely pointless, relatively cheesy, and her character had terrible taste in purses.
- Carrie’s new apartment after the renovation = gorgeous. Those book advances must be getting pretty huge.
- The whole montage sequence at the start of the movie was completely unnecessary.
- I forgot that the show has some really good, funny, smart dialogue, so it was nice to hear that in the film as well.
- This was a lot more enjoyable and a lot less of a train wreck than I thought it would be.
Sex and the City: The Movie
I’m about 90% sure there were no straight males at our screening.
IMDB Plot Synopsis There apparently isn't a synopsis at the moment, but I suppose a synopsis isn't exactly necessary.