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Sex and the City

Sex and the City (2008)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 175
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 88

Sex and the City loses steam in the transition to the big screen, but will still thrill fans of the show.

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 20

Sex and the City loses steam in the transition to the big screen, but will still thrill fans of the show.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 432,721

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Movie Info

The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Also reprising their roles are Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon, with the series' executive producer Michael Patrick King taking on writing and directing duties. Several years have passed

R, 2 hr. 22 min.

Comedy, Romance

Michael Patrick King

Sep 23, 2008

$152.6M

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

All Critics (177) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (89) | DVD (4)

...'Yes,' she said. 'It's Star Trek for women.'...

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Film.com
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SATC Redux: A Lively, Ribald Comedy Has Somehow Morphed into a Shameless, Elephantine Soap Opera

June 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | Comment
Passionate Moviegoer
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This celebration with Carrie & Co. — very much television writ large — seems precisely the Sex and the City reunion the show's fans had hoped for.

June 2, 2008 Full Review Source: NPR.org | Comment
NPR.org
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I walked into the theatre hoping for a nice evening and came out as a hard-line Marxist, my head a whirl of closets, delusions, and blunt-clawed cattiness. All the film lacks is a subtitle: The Lying, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe.

June 2, 2008 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comment (1)
New Yorker
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Why get the band back together if you're not going to add some new songs to the greatest hits?

June 2, 2008 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Learning and hugging. There's lots of that here â" woman to woman and man to woman â" which satisfies the movie's fantasy fulfillment of both amity and eros.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment (1)
TIME Magazine
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Ultimately, it's this streak of realism that prevents Sex And The City from becoming just another fluffy New York fairytale.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Digital Spy

As amigas de Sex and the City estăo entre as criaturas da ficçăo mais repulsivas que já conheci: fúteis, estúpidas, egoístas e entediantes. Além disso, isto năo é um filme, é um catálogo.

May 26, 2010 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Ono sto je u tridesetominutnoj epizodi moglo proći kao vrckavi drustveni komentar u dva i pol sata se pretvorilo u praznu ljusturu.

July 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Index.hr | Comment

The movie Sex and the City is a heady female fantasy -- I think. I tried to snuggle up to Sex and the City, but the attempt to snuggle for two hours and 20 minutes is in itself a fantasy. Like many typical men, I'm afraid I fell asleep.

February 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | Comment
Fayetteville Free Weekly

The behemoth 145-minute running time for this lightweight romantic comedy is unforgivable, and that's only the first of this movie's problems.

October 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Reliving the fantasy lush life.

September 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | Comment
Cinema Signals

An estrogen-fueled salute to the virtues of excess, if that's your Gucci bag.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander | Comment
Mount Desert Islander

That neurotic clotheshorse and her somewhat liberated lusty ladies in waiting, steal the small screen show in their big screen debut, despite wearing their SATC sentimental and bubble-headed surface appeal like a badge of honor.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment (1)
NewsBlaze

I went in rooting for SATC with everything I had, and it left me a bit disappointed.

September 8, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment

Wouldn't it be redundant to describe the self-indulgent big-screen adaptation as similarly vapid, pointless, and poorly acted as the popular HBO show upon which it is based?

July 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comment
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Cinerina invites her first guest reviewer, Melanie Treco. See full review for details.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinerina | Comment (1)

What does that say when a self-admitted narcissist receives such a following? In playing the victim card so often, Sarah Jessica Parker's character is one of the most unlikable characters I've seen in a long time.

July 7, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)

Was this bonbon to the show's fans, four years after the "happily ever after" series finale, really necessary?

June 27, 2008 Comment
Salt Lake Tribune

Plays like nothing more than a marathon viewing of an entire seventh season that should have never been made.

June 24, 2008 Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Comments (2)
DustinPutman.com

To its credit, though, the movie turns Carrie's value system, which equates "the two Ls--Labels and Love," to its advantage, and in the second half the movie achieves a nice balance between comedy and drama.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: KyleSmithOnline.com | Comments (6)
KyleSmithOnline.com

It's too bad that the false sense of high heel empowerment never registers as soundly as our resident money-styling maidens look to achieve in this beleaguered City.

June 16, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Movie Eye
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Audience Reviews for Sex and the City

Before talking about the film itself, some understanding of the HBO series is required. There is not a hope in hell that this film could stand on its own. When the TV show was good, it was as good as anything on TV, but when it was bad, it was as bad as anything. In the good, I classify the moments that made me think,

February 22, 2011
danperry17

Super Reviewer

Not sure a movie was needed but it's cool to see all the glamour on the big screen. I think it's just a little too long for a chick-flick.

November 16, 2011
wildaly14

Super Reviewer

    1. Carrie Bradshaw: My Zen teacher also said the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not be worried about the future.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
    1. Carrie Bradshaw: So what are we going to do? Sit around bars sipping cosmos and sleeping with strangers when we're eighty?
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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