Taking one for the team
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eee1313Today, I saw Sex and the City 2, so you don't have to. I went with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fava_bean and our friend Kelly. They should have titled the movie Rich White People with Problems and been done with it.
So the movie starts off two years after the last one ended. Carrie and Big are still married. Samantha is still a ho, albeit now a ho in menopause. Charlotte is married with kids. Miranda is working her ass off. Ergo, no change. Here's the plot in a nutshull: Carrie worries that she and Big will become a boring married couple. Charlotte can't handle raising two kids without the help of a nanny, with whom she fears Harry will cheat on her. Miranda can't handle her mean boss and quits. Samantha scores the four of them an all-expense paid trip to Abu Dahbi, where they all act like ridiculous spoiled bitches, and Carrie runs into Aiden and kisses him. Charlotte acts like a crazy person trying to stalk her "cheating" husband from afar. Then Sam is a ho in a strict Muslim country, gets them kicked out of the hotel, chased in a market, and basically run out of the country. Miranda is the only character I didn't want to slap the entire time, and of course the filmmakers punish Cynthia Nixon for playing the only remotely likable character by dressing her like a rodeo clown.
Seriously, this movie is dumb. There's virtually no plot. There's virtually no character development. In fact, I think there may have been BACKWARDS character development, if that's possible. Also, while the first movie played like a drama with funny bits, this played for the laughs, and it showed. It was like a loooooooooooong sitcom. You know how sometimes on Family Guy, Stewie does his fake sarcastic HA HA HA HA laugh, when he sounds more angry and annoyed than amused? I wish I had that to play throughout the film, because SO MANY of the jokes were just ... bad.
The one thing that made me laugh and laugh and laugh until I literally cried was not supposed to be funny. At the wedding of Stanford and Anthony -- because it makes sense that THOSE two hook up :| -- Liza Minelli officiates. And then. AND THEN. She comes out and does her own version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies." PEOPLE. I could not stop laughing. There were tears. It was GOD AWFUL and HILARIOUS.
And there were a lot of moments like that throughout, but less hilarious and more God awful. At one point the 4 characters got up and sang "I am Woman" at a karaoke bar. I hid behind my hands. It was just... No.
And the costumes. THE COSTUMES! At one point Sam wore a dress with silver spiked epaulettes on it. Carried had on a white outfit with nipple tassles while riding a camel. And then there's poor Miranda, dressed like a fucking rodeo clown...
I don't even want to get into the treatment of Arabs in this film. Suffice to say, if I were an Arabic guy I'd be really pissed at this movie's portrayal of Arabic men. Say what you will about the realities of the Middle East, but honestly, it says something when the only sympathetic men in the entire Abu Dahbi sequence were the gay guy and the man from India. :|
Actually, if I were gay I'd be pissed at this movie's portrayal of gay men, also.
And as a woman, I'm offended that THIS is what passes as "entertaining." Watching a bunch of rich, snotty, bitchy, demanding women act like asshole horny Americans on the other side of the world, disrespecting the culture they're visiting, disrespecting the (already tarnished) view of Americans, and disrespecting who they've become over the past six seasons of the show and the last movie... Well, it's offensive. Yes, this movie was written to be "funny" since the other movie was such a "downer." But by God, THIS is what you give us? Ugh.
There were honestly very few "true" moments in the film. The best scene was when Miranda and Charlotte bonded over how hard it is to be mothers. At least here the film recognized the fact that both of them have nannies, and most women don't. So at least there was SOME reality. But that's about as close as it got.
The best part was seeing Ron "Tater Salad" White from The Blue Collar Comedy Tour cameo as Miranda's boss. That was an inspired bit of casting. And I think the warden from The Mummy was in the film, too.
But honestly, this movie was just not good. It really did stomp all over any good memories I have of the show or the characters. Really, don't waste your money or your time. By God, YOUR TIME. You really have no idea how LONG this movie is till you sit through it. Ugh.
If this is the last film in the franchise, it was a sad way to go out.
fava_bean and our friend Kelly. They should have titled the movie Rich White People with Problems and been done with it.So the movie starts off two years after the last one ended. Carrie and Big are still married. Samantha is still a ho, albeit now a ho in menopause. Charlotte is married with kids. Miranda is working her ass off. Ergo, no change. Here's the plot in a nutshull: Carrie worries that she and Big will become a boring married couple. Charlotte can't handle raising two kids without the help of a nanny, with whom she fears Harry will cheat on her. Miranda can't handle her mean boss and quits. Samantha scores the four of them an all-expense paid trip to Abu Dahbi, where they all act like ridiculous spoiled bitches, and Carrie runs into Aiden and kisses him. Charlotte acts like a crazy person trying to stalk her "cheating" husband from afar. Then Sam is a ho in a strict Muslim country, gets them kicked out of the hotel, chased in a market, and basically run out of the country. Miranda is the only character I didn't want to slap the entire time, and of course the filmmakers punish Cynthia Nixon for playing the only remotely likable character by dressing her like a rodeo clown.
Seriously, this movie is dumb. There's virtually no plot. There's virtually no character development. In fact, I think there may have been BACKWARDS character development, if that's possible. Also, while the first movie played like a drama with funny bits, this played for the laughs, and it showed. It was like a loooooooooooong sitcom. You know how sometimes on Family Guy, Stewie does his fake sarcastic HA HA HA HA laugh, when he sounds more angry and annoyed than amused? I wish I had that to play throughout the film, because SO MANY of the jokes were just ... bad.
The one thing that made me laugh and laugh and laugh until I literally cried was not supposed to be funny. At the wedding of Stanford and Anthony -- because it makes sense that THOSE two hook up :| -- Liza Minelli officiates. And then. AND THEN. She comes out and does her own version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies." PEOPLE. I could not stop laughing. There were tears. It was GOD AWFUL and HILARIOUS.
And there were a lot of moments like that throughout, but less hilarious and more God awful. At one point the 4 characters got up and sang "I am Woman" at a karaoke bar. I hid behind my hands. It was just... No.
And the costumes. THE COSTUMES! At one point Sam wore a dress with silver spiked epaulettes on it. Carried had on a white outfit with nipple tassles while riding a camel. And then there's poor Miranda, dressed like a fucking rodeo clown...
I don't even want to get into the treatment of Arabs in this film. Suffice to say, if I were an Arabic guy I'd be really pissed at this movie's portrayal of Arabic men. Say what you will about the realities of the Middle East, but honestly, it says something when the only sympathetic men in the entire Abu Dahbi sequence were the gay guy and the man from India. :|
Actually, if I were gay I'd be pissed at this movie's portrayal of gay men, also.
And as a woman, I'm offended that THIS is what passes as "entertaining." Watching a bunch of rich, snotty, bitchy, demanding women act like asshole horny Americans on the other side of the world, disrespecting the culture they're visiting, disrespecting the (already tarnished) view of Americans, and disrespecting who they've become over the past six seasons of the show and the last movie... Well, it's offensive. Yes, this movie was written to be "funny" since the other movie was such a "downer." But by God, THIS is what you give us? Ugh.
There were honestly very few "true" moments in the film. The best scene was when Miranda and Charlotte bonded over how hard it is to be mothers. At least here the film recognized the fact that both of them have nannies, and most women don't. So at least there was SOME reality. But that's about as close as it got.
The best part was seeing Ron "Tater Salad" White from The Blue Collar Comedy Tour cameo as Miranda's boss. That was an inspired bit of casting. And I think the warden from The Mummy was in the film, too.
But honestly, this movie was just not good. It really did stomp all over any good memories I have of the show or the characters. Really, don't waste your money or your time. By God, YOUR TIME. You really have no idea how LONG this movie is till you sit through it. Ugh.
If this is the last film in the franchise, it was a sad way to go out.
