Metascore
63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Reviewed by: Jessica Reaves
    88
    The four stars of Sisterhood are back for this smart, confident second act, based on novels by Anne Brashares.
  2. Reviewed by: Gregory Kirschling
    83
    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.
  3. 75
    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.
  4. 75
    Turns out to be a lot less tiresome than it sounds, aided by a wonderfully appealing cast and a strong message.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 75
    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.
  8. A shapely sequel that retains much of the sparkle and warmth that made the original such a pleasant surprise.
  9. Reviewed by: Stina Chyn
    70
    For Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bridget, their sisterhood shines even brighter the second time around.
  10. 70
    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.
  11. Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    70
    Blandly engaging sequel.
  12. Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    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.
  13. 70
    This is pure, escapist fun -- skepticism and naysaying are best left at home.
  14. This sequel improves on the 2005 original about four friends.
  15. Reviewed by: Travis Nichols
    67
    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.
  16. 63
    Demonstrates that not only is sisterhood powerful, it can be awfully entertaining.
  17. 63
    The sequel is something of a disappointment, embroiling its refreshingly level-headed heroines in a series of clichéd romantic dilemmas.
  18. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    63
    A warm and pleasantly diverting tale.
  19. 63
    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?
  20. Reviewed by: Pauline Pechin
    63
    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.
  21. Reviewed by: Jason McBride
    63
    Watchable as ever.
  22. 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.
  23. 58
    Video veteran Sanaa Hamri directs with smooth competence, and the leads all go pleasantly through their paces, but there are no surprises.
  24. Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
    50
    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.
  25. Observed through emotional gauze, its four likable women are symbolic cheerleaders for personal loyalty and wholesome living.
  26. The only genuine moments of emotion come not from the lead actresses but from that great trouper Blythe Danner.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. I loved the first movie! I was surprised that I loved the second movie just as much being that sequels are usually never as good as the original. What I particularly love most are the 4 lead the actresses. I think they are perfect together, like real lifelong best friends. I myself have 3 best friends, and I can almost compare theirs and my personalities and trials to these 4 girls. It's like Brashares captured some of my life and put it in a book, and then Warner Bros. put it in a movie. I enjoy it every time I watch it, and my 3 girlfriends and I watch it again and again as well. Full Review »
  2. ChadS.
    6
    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." Full Review »
  3. AaronN.
    0
    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. Full Review »