Sex and the City 2 (2010)

While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where Samantha's ex is filming a new movie.

Director:

Michael Patrick King

Writers:

Michael Patrick King, Candace Bushnell (characters from the book by),

Stars:

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis

5 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Carrie Preston
Kim Cattrall	...	Samantha Jones
Kristin Davis	...	Charlotte York Goldenblatt
Cynthia Nixon	...	Miranda Hobbes
David Eigenberg	...	Steve Brady
Willie Garson	...	Stanford Blatch
Evan Handler	...	Harry Goldenblatt
Mario Cantone	...	Anthony Marantino
Liza Minnelli	...	Herself
Lynn Cohen	...	Magda
Alice Eve	...	Erin
Max Ryan	...	Rikard Spirit
Omid Djalili	...	Mr. Safir
Art Malik	...	Shiekh Khalid
Raza Jaffrey	...	Butler Gaurav

Storyline

Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old black-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi.

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Plot Keywords:

abu dhabi | bra less | muslim | united arab emirates | nanny | 

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Taglines:

Carrie on

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some strong sexual content and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [fr]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Arabic

Release Date:

27 May 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Seks i grad 2

Filming Locations:

Amanjena Hotel, Marrakech, Morocco

Box Office

Budget:

$100,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£6,142,718 (UK) (28 May 2010)

Gross:

$95,328,937 (USA) (13 August 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Home Box Office (HBO), HBO Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

146 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

It was erroneously reported that due to a product placement deal with the studio Carrie Bradshaw would own a Hewlett-Packard laptop instead of her ubiquitous Macintosh laptop. Bradshaw's laptop is the same PowerBook G4 seen in the previous film.

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Goofs

The morning after the wedding when the girls are in the restaurant, there is a point where Charlotte is holding a completely different baby than the Rose we see throughout the rest of the movie.

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Quotes

Carrie Bradshaw: You have to take the tradition, and decorate it your way.

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Connections

Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 29 November 2010 (2010)

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Soundtracks

"Language Of Love"
Written by CeeLo Green and Faheem Najm
Performed by CeeLo Green
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

User Reviews

The Good and The Bad

After seeing the first Sex and the City movie, and finding it OKAY, I decided to take a stab at the second film. I am a huge fan of the HBO series, so i was naturally excited...

THE GOOD: Yes, there were some funny moments, and some nice things to look at (clothes, design, men). I liked most of the music choices, and I did enjoy the first 20 minutes or so of the film because it seemed as though it would be building up to something interesting, but just these few things alone could not have made a good enough movie for one of the best shows to ever air on television.

THE BAD: This movie had a lot of downfalls. Lets start with the plot (or lack there of). The audience was treated to four women that constantly complained about their "problems". I am not saying that their issues were not legitimate to regular women, but they did not present these issues in a way that would create an interesting plot..they were just seemingly simple problems that were over dramatized and annoying to listen to (lackluster marriage, boring job, declining hormones, having children...) In the middle of these "problems" we get to see how rich they are with their maids/nannys, change of expensive clothes every 4 minutes and fancy homes. All these things made it hard to sympathize with them. Yes, in the show we saw their lavish lifestyle, but this film was rubbing it in the audience's face, and it was a main part of the "storyline" when it really shouldn't have been. (plus, a lot of the clothing choices were NOT good)

It seemed as though they threw in the idea of going to Abu Dhabi just to make things interesting, but it just made things worse. I felt as though there was a mocking/ undermining quality to the way they portrayed middle eastern customs... But more importantly (to me) is the fact that when i think of the show and its title "Sex in the CITY" I think of that city as NYC, NOT Abu Dhabi (really, what were they thinking?)

Overall, i felt like this was a poorly executed film that had little resemblance to the show... I feel cheated.