Sex and the City 2
Review
by Sean Lynch
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Sex and the City 2
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If ever there was an excuse to wipe the earth clean of all its inhabitants in order to start the human race anew - Sex & The City 2 is it.
Never
has celluloid offered up four more vapid, selfish or disgusting
creatures for future generations of women to fawn over and - heaven
forbid - look to as role models.
While the original series - and
to an extent, the first spin off movie - did it's best to juggle a
level of genuine insight into women with a large dose of "dreams", Sex And The City 2 discards all of it's previous good work in favour of an outrageously camp farce.
Not an enjoyable one either...
Sex and the City 2
kicks off strongly enough, with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha
(Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon)
on the move in The Big Apple once again. However, things aren't as
peachy keen in their perfect lives since we last left them.
From
Carrie struggling with marriage (it appears the one thing she spent six
seasons pining over isn't what it's cracked up to be), to Charlotte
unable to handle her kids (without the aid of a nanny with huge
tatties), to Samantha fearing the impending shrivel of her dong-driven
insides... we soon discover that, yes, it's a tough world out there.
But
who needs to face reality when you can be whisked away to the
glamorous, sun-drenched adventure that is "the middle east on someone
else's dime".
Here is Michael Patrick King's first mistake - one of many, many mistake - taking the girls out of NYC.
Aside from playing out like a reverse version of Jungle 2 Jungle, only more childish and ridiculously racist, the basic essence of what made Sex & The City
such a cultural phenomenon is all but absent here. Take away the city
and all you have left are the ugly exteriors (both literally and
metaphorically) of it's stars.
In fact, for a franchise that's
meant to be "empowering women", all it takes for ladies to look their
worst is for Mr. Big to literally keep his mouth closed (which he does
while sitting on the couch) while Carrie digs her own grave of
shallowness.
Points must be awarded to one of the very few
scenes which works (a quiet, simple discussion about motherhood between
"the prissy one" and "the ranga") - but other than that, there is very
little to take from this.
And, encouragingly, the SATC diehards seem to agree. Which means, thankfully, hope is not lost for society just yet! 2 out
of 5
Sex and the City 2
Australian release: 2nd June,
2010
Official
Site: Sex and the City 2
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Director: Michael Patrick King
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