SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE
SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE |
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Columnist, fashionista and weary single girl Carrie Bradshaw makes a big-screen debut of the celebrated TV comedy. | score 1+ |
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| Cast Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin David, Chris Noth, Candice Bergen, Jennifer Hudson Director Patrick Michael King Screenwriter Patrick Michael King Country USA Rating / Running Time MA / 143 minutes Australian Release June 2008 Official Site (c) moviereview
2006-2008
ABN 72 775 390 361 |
“Can’t
we just get on with it?” screams Miranda in the middle of sex.
Across the city people were probably thinking the same thing. Which got
me thinking, when is enough, enough? This big screen version of a once edgy, sassy and sexy TV comedy arrives some four years after the groundbreaking series ground to a halt. So what’s happened to New York’s most celebrated gal-pal fashionistas during the intervening years? Not a lot. Although writer/director King indulges himself in two and a half cinema hours, this is largely five sitcom episodes stitched together. Without straying from formula, all key characters return to rework the material that once distinguished the series. However a decade has passed since columnist Carrie Bradshaw squeezed into her first designer dress, and while the couture is as glamorous as ever, the story is virtually threadbare: will our princess marry the love of her life? Will Mr Big jilt her at the altar? Will Charlotte have a baby? Will Miranda find her libido? Will Samantha loose hers? And really, who cares? Yet if presales are a judge of quality, Sex and the City: The Movie rivals Casablanca if not Citizen Kane to top Top 100 lists the western world over. Clearly SATC cognoscenti are concerned for the welfare of King’s characters, though anyone on the out remains out. For despite the film’s mind-numbing length, King wastes no time in developing character or story for those unfamiliar with the show. Nor for the familiar, not when there’s Westwood to fluff and puff - it’s all high-points and high heels as brands, brands and more brands are trotted across the screen. Placing this much product doesn’t happen quickly. In short, SATC:TM is nothing more than a Collectors Series extra of unaired episodes. Strictly for undemanding fans and completionists. // COLIN FRASER |