Until this week I had never actually seen this ultimate chick flick even though it came out a couple of years ago. I've seen the series and I liked watching a lot of the episodes that were early. Given that the second movie is coming out this summer I figured I should finally watch the first one. I really didn't like watching the episodes at the end of the series because it just got to the point where I felt bad for these women. I mean they spent ten years looking for love and struggled so epically to find it. They did seem to find love by the series finale but this movie was made to show that it wasn't happily ever after. It starts out where it left off with all of the happy couples and even Carrie and Mr. Big are finally going to get married.
On the wedding day all hell breaks loose because Miranda was all mad about her husband cheating on her so she told Big that he was crazy to get married. This led to him leaving poor Carrie before the wedding. The rest of the movie shows Carrie and Miranda moving on with their lives and their new apartments. Things do come full circle at the very end and Big and Carrie finally get married at City Hall and Miranda forgives her cheating husband. Somewhere along the way Miranda tells Carrie how she ruined the wedding and they fight for a while in the middle. This story line bothered me a lot because there is no way that Miranda could be responsible for ruining their wedding. If Mr. Big could be influenced THAT much by an angry comment then it is really just an excuse for him to not get married.
As for the subplots of the story and the other friends nothing much happens. Charlotte has no problems with her perfect family and even has a baby. Samantha continues to dress like she is in her 20s when she is approaching 50. She also decides along the way to dump her long time boyfriend and focus on her true love, herself. The end of the movie has the girls gathered on Samantha's big 50 celebrating with her forty something friends at a cool club in NYC.
Needless to say, I really didn't like this movie. It kind of ruined the tv series. The movie was about two and a half hours and was SO boring. I understand that the final scene was supposed to be happy and inspirational, but it is just kind of sad to watch. These ladies are too old for this anymore, especially Samantha. But they have made another one to follow where I am sure their lives will once again fall apart and go back to normal. I just hope they don't keep making ones to the point where we have to watch sixty year olds in bright, shiny clubbing dress with five inch heels still partying in the big apple.
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