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Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristen Davis) are all married and dealing with some relationship problems. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is still single but she is fighting against her aging body. As the girls get together over lunch to share their problems Samantha surprises them with an all expenses paid trip to Abu Dhabi. The girls arrive to find they will be pampered with personal butlers and drivers and they can forget all the cares and problems they left behind in New York. Carrie soon runs into her old flame Aidan (John Corbett) and starts down a road that might cause even bigger problems for her and Mr. Big. The week in Abu Dhabi is then thrown into a tailspin after Samantha is caught having sex in public and arrested, leaving the girls little time to get out of the country and back home to their waiting relationships.
This film has so many problems it is hard to know where to start. The acting performances are forced, uninspired, and cold. Sarah Jessica Parker is not a good actor and does not come across as glamorous, both those facts are clear once again in SATC 2. This time however she has seemed to drag the rest of her co-stars down with her. Kim Cattrall is the bright spot of the film, the only main character that looked like she cared about putting any effort into her performance. The film also takes so long to get anywhere. The film opens with a roughly 30 minute scene that is purely a political statement and does nothing for the movie as a whole unless you enjoy watching Liza Minnelli lip-sync. It then takes another roughly 45 minutes to show the problems in Big and Carrie’s marriage. Then only after what seems like an eternity do we actually get to Abu Dhabi, where the films few slightly humorous scenes take place. Sex and the City might work as a 30 minute television show but it does not work as a 2½ hour movie!
The other major flaw in this film is the image it is portraying to the audience. Every scene seems to tell the viewers, most of whom are women, that “we are cooler than you could ever be…look at us…don’t you wish you could be us.” It is so sad that these are characters that people are supposed to “want to be like”.
Sex and the City 2 is poorly acted, poorly scripted, poorly directed, and poorly executed. The film is simply a money grab for already wealthy individuals. Hopefully movie goers will voice their displeasure with the film and not allow creators to go back to the bank again in an effort to complete a pointless trilogy.
Sex and the City 2 receives 1½ out of 5 stars. | 