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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by:
Ann Brashares (novel)
Elizabeth Chandler
Directed by: Sanaa Hamri
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 6, 2008
DVD: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 117 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for mature material and sensuality
Starring Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, and Jesse Williams
Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling series of novels about four young women who share an unbreakable bond through the unpredictable events of their lives, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 catches up with Tibby, Carmen, Bridget, and Lena in the months following their first year of college. Having been apart all year, their plans for the summer will take them even further along separate paths as each one experiences the freedom, love, choices, and challenging life lessons that mark their individual journeys toward adulthood. Now, it will take more than a hurried note or even a treasured pair of pants passed back and forth among them to keep their lives connected. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
The four stars of Sisterhood are back for this smart, confident second act, based on novels by Anne Brashares.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
Even cynics might concede that, again, four capable actresses have pulled off a relatively rare thing: They've convinced us they're an honest-to-God movie sisterhood.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Given the juiciest plotline, Tamblyn goes for it, turning in a hard-boiled performance that's a needed contrast to her co-stars' tendency to go for sweet.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The resulting drama is more deeply felt than it is deep. But I can't think of another film so frankly dealing with what we expect from friendship, so tenderly showing how friends can fail in one area, yet be there in another.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Everything that "Sex and the City" wanted to be. It follows the lives of four women, their career adventures, their romantic disasters and triumphs, their joys and sadness. These women are all in their early 20s, which means they are learning life’s lessons; "SATC" is about forgetting them.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Turns out to be a lot less tiresome than it sounds, aided by a wonderfully appealing cast and a strong message.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
As chick flicks go, this is one men can attend with the expectation that they might just enjoy experiencing two hours alongside these down-to-earth, appealing characters.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Stina Chyn
For Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bridget, their sisterhood shines even brighter the second time around.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
This sequel improves on the 2005 original about four friends.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
It's a relief to go to the movies and see teenage girls acting like teenage girls, as opposed to grown women acting like teenage girls.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
This is pure, escapist fun -- skepticism and naysaying are best left at home.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A shapely sequel that retains much of the sparkle and warmth that made the original such a pleasant surprise.
Read Full Review >Variety John Anderson
It's all largely eye candy, especially the men, although this can be forgiven: Women have a long enough history of being superficial in the movies, and a little payback is perfectly understandable.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols
Ferrera walks this fine line between the real and the fairy tale – she's the only one in the film who doesn't seem to equate a good performance with a lot of blinking – and it's fun to watch her outside the confines of her TV character.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
In the intervening years, they've become pretty good actors, too. Now where's the filmmaker who'll give them more to do than pregnancy scares and falls off donkeys?
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The sequel is something of a disappointment, embroiling its refreshingly level-headed heroines in a series of clichéd romantic dilemmas.
Read Full Review >Premiere Pauline Pechin
Like any coming-of-age story, there's enough drama, comedy, and, of course, romance to be entertaining. But moreover, Sisterhood furthers an honest dialogue among young women.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Demonstrates that not only is sisterhood powerful, it can be awfully entertaining.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The reason this franchise has been so successful - both on film and in Ann Brashares' original novels - is that, just like the jeans, it suits the needs of vastly different girls.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Video veteran Sanaa Hamri directs with smooth competence, and the leads all go pleasantly through their paces, but there are no surprises.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Observed through emotional gauze, its four likable women are symbolic cheerleaders for personal loyalty and wholesome living.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
If you had any notions of getting through The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 without having your emotions pushed, prodded, pounded, and kneaded like so much pizza dough, you can forget about them right now.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The only genuine moments of emotion come not from the lead actresses but from that great trouper Blythe Danner.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chad S. gave it a6:
Although Tibby(Amber Tamblyn) spends the night with her boyfriend like a "very special episode" of "The Facts of Life", and Lena(Alexis Bledel) dates the nude model from her life drawing class, these girls, along with Carmen(America Ferrera) and Bridget(Blake Lively), are nice girls, who wouldn't act like total sluts for the promise of a free t-shirt. This is not "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Thong". They're wholesome, but not cloyingly so, like a Christian's idea of a wholesome girl. The pants come off from time to time, and not just for the sole purpose of mailing the denim talisman to the next girl. Before the sisterhood reconvene in Greece, the girls go solo. The girls go wild largely stateside, except for Bridget, who goes wild in Turkey. So who's your favorite nubile? Mine is Carmen. Kicking it back home in New Haven(ahem, ahem; Yale), the "Natalie" of the bunch is comfortable at first with being the wind beneath Julie's wings when she follows the drama major to a Vermont theater camp, but the machinations of the plot allows the slightly chunky girl to win the lead in a Shakespearan play, tailor-made for an actress with Rachel Nichols' classical good looks. If you regard Carmen's success as a matter of topsy-turvy proportions, the film just lured you in its trap, by trumping your ideology with its own ideology. Just remember who won an Emmy last year for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series; America Ferrera, that's who, for her work on ABC's "Ugly Betty". The film quiety implies that Carmen didn't upset the hierarchy by beating out Julie for the lead role, she put it back in order. Tibby's narrative, on the other hand, would have been more interesting had she been forced to make a decision about her potential destiny with motherhood, but practically all the laughs belong to the "Joan of Arcadia" alumnist, with the exception of Lena's claim that she likes dinner. That's debatable. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is like Secret deodorant, "Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman."
Aaron N. gave it a0:
Doesnt anybody realize that this is just a successor to a marketing ploy? Doesn't anybody see through transparent plots anymore? "Traveling pants" Basically is he word that is used to cover up "buying the material", thus, traveling pants was the overall name for such a lame marketing story.
