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Sex and the City 2 will never be compared to "The Godfather, Part II." But it's everything a fan could want in a sequel.
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70So even if Sex and the City 2 consisted of nothing but a two-hour fashion show, it would draw crowds. But it also has the returning cast members in fine comic form, and it has more cutting-edge humor than the first movie.
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65You don't have to be a fan of Sex and the City to appreciate the kitsch humor here. Part TV-series sequel, part Hollywood sendup, SATC 2 is all satire. It's hard to miss that this film is making gentle fun of itself, of the franchise's materialism, even of its own cinematic allusions.
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63Sex and the City 2 is a champagne cocktail on a runaway train -- fizzy, sparkly, giddy-making, and splashing all over the place.
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63Although they've left the city behind, the girls haven't forgotten the sex. They're still as frank as ever, as outrageous as ever, as liberated as ever.
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50A long sit in the shallows, the equivalent of five half-hour episodes strung together.
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50I enjoyed these characters more when they were rich, rather than obscenely rich, when their self-involvement and life crises had one foot on planet Earth -- and when they weren't all gussied up like Mae West in "Sextette."
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50Frothy as it is, SATC2 is best when it's about the women, not the wardrobe.
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50If "the gals" have to bow out, at least they try to do it in a sprint -- in their Manolo Blahniks. It's a pity nobody told them you can't run in heels -- in sand dunes.
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The "Fab Four's" dramadies continue for the audiences who love them. Trouble is the surrounding story and its supposedly fun sojourns are as embarrassing as granny panties.
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50Part of the action occurs in the desert, which inadvertently proves apt, since the oases of enjoyable moments -- and they do exist -- suffer from being spaced too widely in what's otherwise a long, arid trek.
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50The Muslim women in "SATC2" are props in the froth. Come to think of it, so are Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda.
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42As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did Sex and the City become so long and mean so little?
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42Yes, this is a great time for escapism at the movies. But there's a point at which escapism throws what we're trying to forget back in our faces.
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It's over the top, and over the rainbow. But just like Carrie's worries about the "sparkle" leaving her marriage, this movie is like once-brilliant Champagne, carelessly left out overnight. And gone flat.
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40This feels bigger and more cinematic than the first film, and sees a progression in the lives of the characters. But many of the jokes are beyond broad, and the Middle Eastern stereotypes are shockingly cack-handed.
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40Sex and the City 2 isn't a feature film as much as it is consumer porn. The audience is not asked to relate to the characters, or at least what we remember of them, as much as to their shoes, their bags, their apartments, their couture, their stuff.
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40One wrongheaded jaw-dropper follows another.
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40The satire is sagging, the irony's atrophied and the funny is flabby.
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40A movie gaudy enough to make Dancing with the Stars seem dignified.
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38An insult to the memory of the cleverly written show and its celebration of friendship, it's a slap in the face for the four gal pals (often photographed at unflattering angles) and an affront to Muslims.
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38A dunderheaded comic melodrama with clothes to die for and dialogue to shrink from. It's downright depressing.
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30The problem lies with the unimaginative story premise and the quip/reverse quip dialogue that just may be better-suited to half-hour television shows than this nearly 2½-hour movie feature.
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30The most depressing thing about Sex and the City 2 is that it seems to justify every nasty thing said and written about the series and first feature film.
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30Like its predecessor, SATC2--with a script that's basically a sack full of not very funny gag-lines wrapped in strung-together episodic mini-scenes--is not suited to be a movie.
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25Hits a new low of idiocy and crassness.
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25Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of Sex and the City 2 are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row.
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25The transformation of the girls from winsome wisecrackers into whiny bling-obsessed chuckleheads is complete.
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25Twenty minutes in, the movie is already operating at a deficit, and it never recovers.
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25The biggest sin of Sex and the City 2 is its lack of beauty. It's garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe, wafer-thin when it should be whip-smart and sophisticated.
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25It's astounding how a movie this long could accomplish so little.
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Sex And The City 2 panders to that audience to the point of self-destruction, squandering whatever goodwill the franchise had left after the first so-so movie by plopping its beloved characters into a series of garish vignettes that throw their shallowness into sharp relief.
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12Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie should be a cautionary tale of perpetual adolescence; her character should be out dating any number of Hollywood's graying beer bellied frat boys. But no. Instead, we are asked to identify and sympathize with a person who gets everything she wants, but complains anyway.
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12But the best, most irrefutable reason why Sex and the City 2 deserves one-half a shining star. It's worse than Sex and the City 1, and that alone is a remarkable achievement.
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10Indeed, this movie's offensive on many levels, but Arabs and Muslims don't get to feel special. It relies on stupid stereotypes because it's a stupid movie that's offensive to virtually everyone.
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10The ugly smell of unexamined privilege hangs over this film like the smoke from cheap incense.
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10And it's true that this movie's absolute tone-deafness, its complete disconnection from our current economic and geopolitical reality, by moments achieves a perverse Warholian profundity.
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10Real feelings lurk just below the surface--Samantha's terror of growing old, Carrie's fear of eventual tedium in a childless marriage. Yet the surface is where the movie stays, like an old submarine with dead batteries.
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Thanks to writer-director Michael Patrick King, I now have a fair idea how it might feel to be stoned to death with scented candles.
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Negative: 23 out of 49
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