Sex and the City (2008)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Michael Patrick King

Writers (WGA):

Michael Patrick King (written by)
Candace Bushnell (book)

Release Date:

30 May 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Get Carried Away.

Plot:

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.

Plot Keywords:

Marriage | Sex | Friendship | Honeymoon | Writer

Awards:

10 nominations

Cast

Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Carrie Bradshaw
Kim Cattrall	...	Samantha Jones
Kristin Davis	...	Charlotte York
Cynthia Nixon	...	Miranda Hobbes
Chris Noth	...	Mr. Big
Candice Bergen	...	Enid Frick
Jennifer Hudson	...	Louise
David Eigenberg	...	Steve Brady
Evan Handler	...	Harry Goldenblatt
Jason Lewis	...	Jerry 'Smith' Jerrod
Mario Cantone	...	Anthony Marentino
Lynn Cohen	...	Magda
Willie Garson	...	Stanford Blatch
Joanna Gleason	...	Therapist
Joseph Pupo	...	Brady Hobbes

Also Known As:

Sex and the City: The Movie (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.

Runtime:

145 min | 151 min (extended cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | South Korea:18 | Ireland:15A | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Germany:12 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Denmark:11 | Norway:11 | USA:R (certificate #44340) | Italy:T | Hong Kong:III | Finland:K-13 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:R21 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) (cut) | Netherlands:12 | Greece:K-13 | Singapore:M18 (edited for re-rating) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-15 (original rating) | Spain:13 | Sweden:Btl | Brazil:16 | France:U (with warning) | Taiwan:R-18 | New Zealand:R16 | Malaysia:18PL (cut) | Japan:PG-12 | Austria:10 | Peru:14 | Iceland:14

Filming Locations:

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

Victoria Beckham was offered a cameo role but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with Spice Girls tour rehearsals.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Carrie is interviewing the Asian guy for her personal assistant, the coffee cup changes its position right after he shows her he is wearing pink high heel shoes.

Quotes:

Samantha Jones: I feel the same way as you feel about Botox. Painful and unnecessary.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Who Pooped the Bed? (#4.7)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Walk This Way

Sudden urge to buy a handbag

Films made from TV shows often suffer from the problem that the same writers are used for both formats and the writers are used to writing for 30 minute sitcoms. What they try to do is stretch the same writing style to a two hour film and it falls flat.

It has happened so many times that producers must know this pitfall, so you would think. With shows like 'Sex and the City' the problem is solved by that the program length is already an hour and there are 2 part-specials as well. So writing a movie script should be straight forward. What will not happen is that a script will feel like it has an added hour bolted on or the writers were clueless and threw some old ideas from the show together to keep the producers happy who saw the cash tills registering.

That's what's happened with this film! Taking the themes that everyone knows from he end of the last episode of the last series: Carrie's back with Big, marriages, adoption, splitting up; each character conforming to what their characters were last doing. There's no new ideas in the script to justify this film. The better option would be to make a TV special which would have been far funnier.

This film is no more than an advertising dream for handbag manufacturers. Being bludgeoned by images like an excess of the 1950's subliminal messages in movie theatres.