Sex and the City Movie: Yeah, I admit it! I actually went to the theatre and paid money to see it.

First of all let me admit that I did watch the HBO Series regularly back when it was fresh, new and hot. No one ever recommended it to me… I was simply sitting there with HBO on about 10 years ago and recognized great writing when I heard it. That’s what drew me in from the beginning… I’m a sucker for great writing… that’s why I’m a Jackson Browne fan, a Hunter S. Thompson fan, heck I’m even a fan of Skip Hollandsworth (Texas Monthly). Three great writers in my book. (Although, one of the best writers I know is a friend of mine named Brent Norman who has never been published past college. But I digress)

Anyway, if you haven’t seen this movie stop reading right now because I will be giving away the plot. ( Not that you won’t be figuring it all out way in advance once the opening credits roll.)

Ok. Yes, it was completely predictable… but so was the series. I’ve read several movie critics who have said that it wasn’t as snappy as the series as far as the writing goes… I disagree to a point. I once heard Michael Patrick King(the writer and director) say that if he could make his writing partner blow snot onto the computer screen he knew he had congered up a witty, memorable and funny line. Let me tell you folks, there were people blowing snot all up and down the aisles of that theater and I was one of them.

But the whole point of me going to see this movie and writing a blog about it is to give a man’s point of view about it.

First off, anyone who couldn’t see that Big was going to leave Carrie standing at the alter is an idiot. The second they “agreed” to get married and “she” started turning it into a “circus”(to quote Big) you knew that this 2-time-loser-with-no-desire-to-repeat-the-same-mistake-again was going to bail… BIG time!

So, no surprise there. But it was hilarious to watch Carrie beat the crap out of him with a bouquet of roses right in the middle of the BIG Apple.

Second of all, anyone who couldn’t see that Miranda and Steve were going to have huge issues is an idiot. That’s been written in the cards since the day they introduced Steve’s character.  Miranda is smart and I like her character but she’s treated that poor schmuck like a low-rent-never-wanted-to-be-dogpile from the beginning. So, no surprise there.

Third of all, Samantha and that brainless-boy-toy she’s been doing for the past 5 years should’ve thrown in the towel back when the series was still being produced. So, no surprise there.

I won’t even get in to Charlotte’s worthless life… but I will say the hardest I laughed during the entire movie was when she had her “Poughkeepsie” moment in Mexico.

I guess the best part of sitting there for 2-and-a-half-hours was I didn’t have to buy a plane ticket to go back to New York for an afternoon. Because, let me tell you, I’ve been going to NYC regularly for the past 15 years, and anyone who says they don’t love NYC has never been.

Surprisingly, the freshest aspect to the movie was Jennifer Hudson as Carrie’s new assistant. The girl has fantastic on-screen charisma and is just completely lovable. In fact, the only point where I got even remotely sentimental about this word-fest was when Jen and Carrie parted ways.

I honestly thought that this was going to be like sitting through 5 episodes of SATC. Instead,  it was like sitting through an entire season. But, truthfully, I didn’t have a problem with that… it was all neatly tied-up in the end.

So, in essence if there is a 2nd SATC movie it will have to be about all of them getting divorced or killing each other I guess.

Later

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