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| Sex and the City - The Movie (Special Edition) | 
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| Director: Michael Patrick King
Actors: Candice Bergen, Kim Cattrall, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, Evan Handler
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  191 reviews
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Format: Color, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 147
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: TRNDN40425D
UPC: 794043123320
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ASIN: B001DDBCUU
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/23/2008 Rating: R
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As light and frothy as the Vivienne Westwood wedding gown that's an unofficial fifth star, the film version of Sex and the City is both captivatingly stylish and sweetly sentimental. Viewers who loved hanging with Carrie Bradshaw and her three pals during the series' TV run will feel as though no time has passed. Except that it has: Carrie and Big are poised to make a Big Commitment; Miranda and Steve are facing the breakup of their wonderful family; Charlotte and Harry have added to their brood; and Samantha (are we sitting down?) has been devoted to hunky Smith for five full years. Still, in all that time, the women's style, conviviality, and appetite for bons mots have only grown. When practical attorney Miranda learns that Carrie is considering moving in with Big (in possibly the coolest apartment in Manhattan), she can't help but frown in that but-you-might-lose-everything way. Carrie's retort: "For once, can't you feel what I want you to feel--jealous?!" The cast is spot-on, as always. Sarah Jessica Parker is effortless as the angst-ridden yet practical, stylish yet vulnerable Carrie. Kim Cattrall is deliciously decadent as Samantha, but she's wiser now and knows herself and her needs for a real relationship. Kristin Davis, as Charlotte, has quietly become the most gorgeous among the beauties, her sleek presence both winsome and sophisticated. And Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) shows nuance as a woman torn between betrayal and grudging hope. Supporting roles include Candice Bergen as the Vogue editor who anoints Carrie "The Last Single Girl in New York," and Jennifer Hudson, as a starry-eyed, ambitious romantic who represents the new generation of SATC women. Through it all, New York is a benevolent cocoon that envelopes and nurtures the women and their friendships and careers. No matter that none of them appears to have any semblance of "real" family; as long as they have each other, and Manhattan, all will be right with their world. --A.T. Hurley
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 Kvetch and the City August 12, 2008
70 out of 120 found this review helpful
At the risk of being stoned to death with Manolo Blahnik stilettos by a mob of incensed fans, I've gotta say that I was seriously disappointed in this movie. I'm not an S&TC hater--far from it. I never saw the series on HBO; I don't get cable and discovered it on DVD just as it was about to go off the air. Being a Carrie-Come-Lately to the party actually was a huge benefit: I got to revisit my favorite episodes on disc as often as I liked. Like its heroine herself, "Sex & the City" was the most fun when it didn't take itself too seriously, and yet its best-crafted episodes are surprisingly memorable and poignant for a 30-minute 'comedy'. At its best, S&TC transcended mere comedy or crude sex gimmicks and mined some very deep pockets of the human soul. Also didn't hurt that the clothes were fabulous, the cocktails were plentiful and the production design absolutely outstanding. The series was an unabashed valentine to its fifth lady, New York City, while taking us on a journey with the four flawed women at its center. That journey had all the laughter, tears, breakups, makeups, pettiness, generosity, love, self-delusion and insight of which we are all capable. That's why we went along for that ride for 6 years. I felt that by that last shot of the girls leaving the coffee shop in the finale of Season 6, the writers had achieved the impossible: an unresolved ending that still left us hopeful and satisfied that as we said goodbye, the future for each held good things, including, most of all, their continued friendship. That was a good ending. There was no wedding for Carrie, but Mr. Big did say "Carrie, you're the one" in Paris. Did anyone doubt what came next?
I wasn't thrilled about the idea of a big-screen treatment, seeing it as redundant at best and rife with potential for disaster at worst. I ardently hoped that writer-director Michael Patrick King and his team of screenwriters would treat the movie as four interrelated episodes of the series and craft them accordingly. A movie event on HBO would have been more in keeping with a show that got its start there, but of course, the siren call of all those theatrical millions was too powerful to resist for everyone involved. The movie hit some glitches on its way to production as we know, and four years went by before it made its way into theatres. Sadly, no one has aged for the better (including Samantha). It's not that everyone doesn't look essentially the same--they do--but the plot has not moved forward and everyone is in a holding pattern. This makes everyone look so 2004, and not in a good way. I'm not giving away any plot points that haven't already blanketed the known universe by saying that Carrie is planning her wedding to Big; Miranda is still doing the domesticity routine in Brooklyn with Steve and their son (didn't anyone else wonder if the poor kid is now known as 'Brady Brady'?) and Charlotte and Harry adopted their adorable little moppet from China and are now joyfully expecting their own visit from the stork. What comes as a little bit of a surprise is that Samantha is now living in L.A. with Smith, who is now a working actor. She jets in frequently for lunches with the girls, but one can't help but wonder whether Sam was banished to La-La Land as punishment for Kim Cattrall's foot-dragging over salary negotiations.
To find Carrie and Big still dickering over his level of commitment to her after their 'le grand moment' in Paris is demoralizing; what HAVE they been doing for the last 4 years? Did he not really mean it or what? Given the time that elapsed, it would've been more satisfying (not to mention, merciful) if the movie opened with Carrie and Big already married, though that scenario would have deprived us of the movie's best setpiece: an extended, dreamy montage of Carrie as a bridal vision in a parade of different designer wedding gowns. Surprises are in store for a couple of the other relationships that Season 6 had successfully locked down, we thought.
Ultimately, this big-screen treatment has not really done justice to what was a small-screen story. Big ain't necessarily better (unless, of course, we are speaking about Chris Noth--notwithstanding the fact that Aidan Shaw was my personal favorite of Carrie's fiances), and in moving to the big screen, they choked. Having achieved the perfect goodbye at the end of the series, they weren't content to leave it alone, but for Carrie & Co. and all their fans' sakes, they really should have. All in all, watching this long-awaited movie of a great show is kind of like eating too much cotton candy; we think we need an outsized helping of such a pretty confection, only to realize that its complete lack of nutrative value has left us feeling overindulged and sick. Frankly, the Fab Four deserved better than this, and so did we. Do you want to buy this anyway, if you are a fan? Probably, but it will make you want to revisit, or buy for the first time, the TV series as an antidote.
 Nothing lost in transition June 22, 2008
66 out of 83 found this review helpful
This is one of the few shows that I've watched since the beginning and considered good or ground-breaking enough to actually buy the episodes on DVD. (CSI and The L-Word being others) I didn't buy Season Six in protest of the way they split it into two DVD sets, thereby doubling the price for the Season, but I digress. The movie picks up the threads four years after the series left off.
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) has reconciled with Big (Chris Noth) and the two are apartment hunting in Manhattan.
Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is still married to Steve (David Eigenberg) but having problems balancing the responsibilities of home, family, work and social life.
Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is happily married to Harry (Evan Handler) and the couple have adopted a daughter named Lily.
Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is living with Smith (Jason Lewis) in LA, commuting to New York for important social events.
So now you're up to date, here we go with the Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):
1.Carrie and Big make an important decision based on legal rights over property
2.Miranda makes an important decision based on Steve's actions
3.Charlotte has big news, but is afraid that something may happen to ruin everything
4.Samantha is restless, and not getting any younger
5.In vogue wedding ends up in Vogue magazine, but the honeymoon isn't exactly what the bride had in mind.
6.Carrie hires an assistant, Louise from St. Louis (Jennifer Hudson), an efficient young woman with great taste in brand names and shoes, who still believes in love.
7.The tides of life wax and wane and wax again in thoroughly entertaining fashion
8.All join in wishing Samantha another 50 years!!
This movie captures the spirit of the series, the only thing missing being not enough Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson) and Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone)
The soundtrack is also excellent, with songs by Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Jem, Nina Simone, India-Arie and others.
Highly recommended for all fans of the show, and the fashion forward.
Amanda Richards, June 22, 2008
 Friends June 1, 2008
25 out of 36 found this review helpful
Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte: they're all back, now in their 40's and approaching 50 but still fighting the good fight (at least all but Charlotte is)...looking for Love into which they fall in and out of on a regular basis.
Many of the things we loved about the HBO series are back: Mr. Big (who knew his name was John?), the 2 Gay sidekicks Anthony and Stanford, the ridiculously outlandish clothes and shoes and more importantly the enduring and refreshing love that exists between these 4 women. What is not here, as it was not there in the TV series is snarky, condescending comments about or between our Sex and the City women. These women are truly friends: caring, sympathetic and empathetic about each other. If nothing else this is what sets this film apart from any film featuring a cast of women...think "8 Women" or "The Women" and you'll understand. Men may come and go but our quartet is present both physically and emotionally for each other. They love each other in the way the best platonic friends love each other: selfishly and selflessly.
The story revolves around our heroine's boyfriends, husbands, babies and of course, Mr. Big. At the beginning of the film, Carrie and John (it's weird to call him that) are set to marry in a lavish wedding set in New York's Public Library Rotunda: Carrie is wearing her Vivienne Westwood gown and John is sporting a resplendent John Varvatos tux. Then all hell breaks loose.
"Sex and the City" is a lot of fun and it is great to see our heroines together once again inter-reacting. But there is a deep sadness at the core here. We've watched these women for years yet emotionally they are still striving to find their true place in the universe. We crave for them to find happiness because we love them and hold them close to our hearts. And by-the-way, of what other characters in films can we say this? But director and writer,
Michael Patrick King resists making the easy fix. He doesn't try to tie up their stories with a big red satin bow: he knows these women and owes them and us a plausible, respectful and humane continuation of their lives. King respects their past and uses it to mold their futures. And for this we thank him and for creating these terrific 4 women.
 Hags and the City August 21, 2008
14 out of 55 found this review helpful
A ghastly horseface, a desiccated streetwalker, a pretty-young-thing and a butch wax philosophic on the most excruciatingly fatuous subjects imaginable. But don't you dare say the empress wears no clothes, because if you do you will be accused of "punishing female sexuality" by pseudo culture-critics and tenured women "professors." Don't expect the slightest shred of wit or originality: for all its pretensions to cutting-edge status, there is not a single idea or joke that you haven't heard in dozens of other shows and movies over the years. Stale and hackneyed, "Sex and the City" is the TV equivalent of "Thelma and Louise": an adolescent romp for women. Which is fine by me, I suppose.
Great Sexpectations May 31, 2008
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
The series finale of the TV show "Sex and the City" was absolute perfection. Although I was very excited to see "Sex and the City: The Movie," I didn't think it would be possible to top the way the series ended. The movie did not top the series, but it was still a lot of fun to watch.
I'm not going to give a play-by-play of the film because I don't want to spoil the plot for everyone. Obviously, the movie picks up several years after the TV series left off. I understand why some critics are having a field day with this film. Yes, there are a few hokey moments in the movie, and there are some issues with the plot. Personally, even I got a bit irritated with Carrie during the movie. Exactly how much crap from Mr. Big is she willing to put up with in her lifetime?! However, all that aside, I am not writing this review from the point of view of a critic. I'm writing it as a die-hard "Sex and the City" fan. And the bottom line is, it was so great to see Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte together again that I'm willing to forgive all the little things that were wrong with the film. This movie made me laugh. It made me cry. It made me remember why "Sex and the City" is one of my favorite television shows of all time. Plus, it had a happy ending for everyone, which is exactly what we want for all of the girls.
Fans of the HBO series will adore this movie, which is a wonderful tribute to friendships, fashion, and love. Based on those attributes, "Sex and the City: The Movie" is a five-star film all the way.
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