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Sex and the City: The Movie

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Sex and the City: The Movie reviews
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6.1 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Romance

Written by: Michael Patrick King
Candace Bushnell (characters from the book)

Directed by: Michael Patrick King

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 30, 2008
DVD: September 23, 2008

Running Time: 135 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language

Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, and Lynn Cohen

Carrie Bradshaw, successful author and everyone’s favorite fashion icon-next-door, is back, her famously sardonic wit intact and sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single women in New York. Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha, Charlote and Miranda four years after the hit HBO series ended, as our favorite friends continue to juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate. (New Line Cinema)

What The Critics Said

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The best American movie about women so far this year, and probably the best that will be made this year.

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89

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

In its cinematic incarnation, Sex and the City has lost none of its bawdiness yet gained a more profound sense of soberness. Parker, especially, who in the last season of the show bordered on insufferable in her affected squeaks and shrieks, is allowed to go to very dark places – to be, in fact, quite unfabulous.

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88

Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves

Michael Patrick King's screenplay hits all the right notes, building on the warmth and familiarity of the series (which King also wrote).

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83

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A movie that taps directly back into the show's primal appeal, which is the sweet, sad, saucy delight of sharing these women's company.

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80

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Can't rightly be called a romantic comedy in the dismal, contemporary sense, though it is at times romantic and is consistently very funny. It's also emotionally realistic, even brutal.

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80

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The movie's beating heart is the friendship between the women, who had found some sort of happiness by the show's 2004 finale. Now they're all at a personal crossroads and need one another more than ever.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Athima Chansanchai

In this film, the clothes and the city are characters as vital as the four leads, and they don't disappoint. But don't expect any trend-setting in the manner of the series. This is a runway that begins and ends with the movie.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

Amid the style, sass and sexiness is plenty of sentimentality, especially at the satisfying conclusion.

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75

Premiere Emily Rems

It gives you everything you ever loved about the series, and blows it out into super-size cinematic proportions.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

The four women couldn't be better - or better matched. As always, Parker is the standout, cracking your heart and cracking you up with equal ease.

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70

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

It's less a movie than a delivery system for sensory pleasures, sunny romance and designer-label stuff that in real life would result in diabetic shock (or at least a ruined credit rating).

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70

New York Magazine David Edelstein

Sex and the City: The Motion Picture is a joyful wallow. And it's more: In this summer of do-overs (The Incredible Hulk, a new Batman versus a new Joker), it's what the series finale should have been.

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Genevieve Koski

Ultimately, Sex And The City serves as a glitter-laced love letter to its fans, which is really all it needs to be.

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67

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

At times, the movie resembled nothing so much as Kabuki with Cosmos.

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63

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Writer-director Michael Patrick King, the creative force behind the show's later seasons, can't disguise the fact that the movie is basically five TV episodes strung together (only three hit the mark). But his script is more honest about aging than anything in "Indy 4."

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63

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

For the moment, King has restored women to their rightful place in a genre that is nothing without them. But, sadly, that genre isn't romantic comedy. It's the chick flick.

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Unfortunately, where episodes of the series used to take their cue from a question posed by one of Carrie's columns, writer-director Michael Patrick King never finds that focus, and Sex and the City loses its tart edge in the process.

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60

Empire William Thomas

If you are immune to the charms of Carrie and co., this will do little to convert you. Still, it has more than enough sass, style and sentiment to keep the faithful satisfied. Add a star if you're a fan.

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58

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It more or less plays like a five-episode arc of the series, which is a strength and a weakness.

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55

NPR Bob Mondello

If this fabulously decked-out foursome is self-absorbed enough to be inadvertently cruel on occasion, they also suffer lots of guilt -- though their angst is rendered somewhat less angsty for viewers by the zingers, the designers, and the cheerfully objectified men on display.

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50

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Turns out to be a more disappointment than joyful reunion, a tedious and desperately drawn-out affair that tests your patience even as it brazenly courts (and often earns) your contempt.

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50

TV Guide Ken Fox

It's a mainstreamed, big-screen version of the bowdlerized, endlessly syndicated version of the show, not the raunchy original.

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50

Time Richard Corliss

I have the anachronistic notion that romantic comedies needn't be exclusively partial to one gender; they should be critical and loving and true to both. So I'll soldier on with my mixed, distant, defiantly ignorant review of this 142-minute trifle -- which comes close to being the longest non-musical romantic comedy in Hollywood history.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

So much has been written about the show's emotional importance to single women that I can't possibly add anything, except to say that, in both its TV and movie incarnations, the empty materialism and sincere longing for love always manage to cancel each other out, leaving behind nothing but what this started out as--a sitcom.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

For those who do not consider themselves to be among the Sex and the City faithful, this is a painful experience, perhaps the longest 148 minutes likely to be spent in a movie theater this year. Watching grass grow is more dramatically satisfying.

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50

Variety Brian Lowry

Best in its small moments, the movie should find receptive gal pals congregating for the mother of all viewing parties.

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50

Village Voice Ella Taylor

Though Sex and the City is every bit as busy as its HBO progenitor was, it's virtually plotless, not to mention pointless.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Here is a 145-minute movie containing one (1) line of truly witty dialogue: "Her 40s is the last age at which a bride can be photographed without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext."

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42

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Sex and the City, as a film, is a testament to bad faith. It wants its characters to eat their wedding cake and have it, too.

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40

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

The real problem is that Sex and the City is, except for a few laughs, mostly just irritating.

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40

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Parker IS to blame for the self-consciousness of her performance. She spends much of the movie swanning, not acting: Nearly every movement, every gesture, seems conceived for the benefit of the camera, as opposed to the truth of the character.

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40

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

In contrast to the series, which was quick-witted, fast-paced and self-ironic -- oh, and sexy -- the movie is earnest, often aimless (couldn't anyone cook up a plot?), visually bland (except for the fashion shows) and, at two minutes short of 2½ hours, a decreasingly amiable meander.

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40

Slate Dana Stevens

And an attempt to address the series' endemic whiteness by adding a subaltern black character--Jennifer Hudson as Carrie's designer-bag-toting Girl Friday--is a major misfire that only underscores our heroine's oblivious entitlement

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Feels like it was written and directed by an audience focus group in Omaha?

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38

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

As a film, it's flabby and utterly predictable.

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30

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

I wish Ms. Parker had let that bee in her bonnet go silent, because the movie that she and Mr. King have come up with is the pits, a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow -- and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong -- addendum to a show that had, over the years, evolved and expanded in surprising ways.

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30

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

Made me laugh precisely once, as a magazine editor let fly with a Diane Arbus gag. It is no coincidence that she is played by Candice Bergen, who gets just the one scene, but who is nonetheless the only bona-fide movie star on show.

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0

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Bad summer films, full of furious hype and signifying nothing, are hardly exceptional these days, nor is the sound they typically make: the dull scrape of a culture hitting rock bottom. Yet this one seems uniquely bad; this one is a threshold-breaker with a different sound, the crack of rock-bottom giving way to a whole deeper layer of magma.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 180 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

D T. gave it a0:
Since seeing the video last night I've been trying to think of a worse, more boring, shallow movie. I'm still coming up dry. This was a bad kids' movie with sex and vulgarity. I guess if you're interested in seeing endless tedious "fashion" and airheads who swoon over it, this was worth the (seemingly eternal) time. For the rest of us it was a bad Halloween prank, complete with pretentious-crap costumes. I say this as a guy who watches "womens' stuff like Housewives and Betty with some degree of interest. Maybe because they actually manage to be funny once in a while. This trash movie, on the other hand, may have cured me of ever wanting to even go to NYC again. I don't need to get on a plane if I want to see the kind of self-obsessed ugliness this waste of film offers.

Amanda G. gave it a4:
It was nice to see them on the big screen but everything that happens was revealed in the trailer so there were no surprises and a lot of things that happened were uncharacteristic of their characters on the show. a disappointment in my eyes.

Jason N. gave it a3:
I thought I'd check the hype around this movie. I was sorely disappointed. Having not watched a single episode of the wildly popular tv show, I do not understand what was the big deal about the lives of four self-absorbed women living in New York City. I caught myself saying out loud several time...what the hell is all this nonsense?? At least I can understand why this show/movie is popular among women - the lives that the characters lead are purely self-indulgent, fictional and silly....but people will always have their dreams.

Liz G. gave it a0:
I am a huge Sex fan, but this was total garbage. It was completely awful, I cried because one of my favorite shows was ruined. I wish I could have directed the movie, I would have done it justice because I am without a doubt the greatest person who has ever lived and the biggest Sex and the City fan you will meet! I get choked up just thinking about how bad this movie was, I mean, how could we let this happen? I would rather watch those stupid action/horror movies with my fat, lazy, boyfriend than see this movie ever again. I hope I can recover from this, I just need some ice cream and to yell at one of my friends for no good reason, that will help.

B. Jones gave it a0:
They are not pretty, in every scene they are the oldest person, they are surrounded by young people - it highlights how bizzare the idea of women in their 60's acting like bratz dolls. The fashion is bad bad bad. The drama is less convincing than a spoilt emo 13 year old demanding mummy take her crush more seriously. The characters are all vindictive and disgusting. If you enjoy laughing at men for 2 hours - you'll love this. I hope no man ever has to suffer your presence though.

Sally M. gave it a9:
I loved every minute of this film. This is not a film written for men, thank goodness, and yet they seem so keen to rate it here. Sex and the City is a modern day adult female fairy tale and is pure enjoyment on that level.

Fred S. gave it a10:
Popcorn and a film of fail.

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