The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Sanaa Hamri

Writers (WGA):

Elizabeth Chandler (screenplay)
Ann Brashares (novel)

Release Date:

6 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Some friends just fit together.

Plot:

Carmen Lowell is working on the backstage of a play in Yale. When the lead actress and friend Julia...

Plot Keywords:

Friendship | Vermont | Jeans | Turkey | Grandmother

Cast

Amber Tamblyn	...	Tibby Tomko-Rollins
Alexis Bledel	...	Lena Kaligaris
America Ferrera	...	Carmen Lowell
Blake Lively	...	Bridget Vreeland
Rachel Nichols	...	Julia
Jesse Williams	...	Leo
Tom Wisdom	...	Ian
Rachel Ticotin	...	Carmen's Mom
Leonardo Nam	...	Brian McBrian
Michael Rady	...	Kostas
Shohreh Aghdashloo	...	Professor Nasrin Mehani
Blythe Danner	...	Greta
Lucy Hale	...	Effie Kaligaris (as Lucy Kate Hale)
Maria Konstadarou	...	Yia Yia
Ernie Lively	...	Bridget's Father

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature material and sensuality.

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44299) | Australia:M | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:AL

Filming Locations:

Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Company:

Alcon Entertainment

Trivia:

The final scene of the movie in which the girls jumped off the cliff was requested by Amber, America and Blake. While in Greece they had seen two teenage boys jump off the cliff; the boys were fans and convinced them to do it too, and the girls asked the director that this be a scene in the movie.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Bridget finds the letters from Greta in her dad's basement that her father had hidden from her, there is no USPS cancellation stamp printed over any of the postage stamps. This would indicate the letters were intercepted before they were mailed. Since Greta lives in Alabama, this doesn't seem possible.

Quotes:

[after finishing the play]
Ian: Carmen, that was incredible!
[Carmen kisses Ian]
Ian: Sometimes words fail...
[He kisses her back]

Movie Connections:

References Freaky Friday (2003)

Soundtrack:

Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You)

Their Friendship Is More than a Magic Pair of Jeans

Carmen Lowell (America Ferrera) is working on the backstage of a play in Yale. When the lead actress and friend Julia (Rachel Nichols) invites her to travel to Vermont with her to work in a play with professional cast, she decides to stay with her friends and her pregnant mother. However she finds that Lena Kaligaris (Alexis Bledel) will travel to a course of drawing. Bridget Vreeland (Blake Lively) is in existential crisis missing her mother and decides to travel to an archaeological dig in Turkey. Tibby Tomko-Rollins (Amber Tamblyn) is working in a rental and still editing her documentary. Therefore, Carmen accepts the invitation and travels to Vermont. She has a crush on the lead actor Ian (Tom Wisdom), who convinces her to participate in an audition, and is invited by the director Bill Kerr (Kyle MacLachlan) to perform the lead female role. Later she finds the truth about the friendship of Julia. The broken-hearted Lena finds that Kostas (Michael Rady) has married and she dates the model of her class. Bridget finds letters addressed to her from her grandmother that her father has hidden and she decides to visit her grandma, disclosing a secret about her mother. Tibby makes love with her boy-friend Brian McBrian (Leonardo Nam) but they have problems with the condom and she gets scared of a possible pregnancy. In the end, the girlfriends discover that their friendship is real and more than a pair of jeans.

I have watched this sequel during a flight without watching "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and I liked the story in spite of not being familiarized with the characters. The story about friendship and discoveries is a sort of teen version of "Sex and the City", with four young women that belong to different ethnic groups and backgrounds, but have also a solid friendship that help each other in the bad moments and celebrate together the good ones. The four subplots entwined by an apparently magic pair of jeans are good, but Carmen's one is certainly the more engaging. My vote is seven.

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