I don't know quite what to say about Sex and the City 2 and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I got quickly bored with the TV series but gave the first film a go as something light and frothy to watch on a Friday night after a tough week at work and it fitted the bill.
So I approached SATC2 with the same mindset. It's a Friday night, I want something frivolous and entertaining and a nice glass of wine to wash it down with. And again it fitted the bill.
It starts with a glamourous and camper than camp gay wedding complete with Liza Minnelli. The famous four are all impeccably and achingly fashionably dressed from ridiculous designer shoes to silly headwear, there are the usual emotional and relationship traumas to deal with but everything is OK in the end. The only thing that is different is that most of the film takes places while they girls are on a trip to the UAE.
Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing radical or new but just a bit of fun on a Friday night. A comfort blanket of a film if you like. Open a bottle of wine, disengage brain and enjoy.
Perhaps that's what the reviewers should have done, not much good to say about it from the handful I've scanned popular complaints are the length (too long) and the thin plot lines. For what it's worth I'd have given it three out of five:
Daily Telegraph didn't rate it and said among other things: Sex and the City 2 goes on for half a lifetime, brandishes enough product placements to embarrass a Formula One driver, and contains approximately three good one-liners (Samantha’s hope that a Danish architect could be the “Lawrence of my Labia” the best of them).
Time Out London gave it two stars with an average reader rating of three stars commenting: And the featherbrained feminism the
franchise specialises in reaches its apex when Carrie files her latest
book, ‘I Do. Do I?’, beside Susan Sontag’s ‘Against Interpretation’. How
do you say, ‘In your dreams, girlfriend’ in Arabic?
Metacritic gave it 27/100 and RottenTomatoes UK gave it 16%
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