Sex and the City (2008)
Directed by Michael Patrick King
When Carrie's big step forward in her relationship goes awry, best friends Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are there to help her pick up the pieces.
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The sheer accumulated anticipatory goodwill of the audience is almost enough to carry the first hour of the film, and King has sated appetites with come-hither shots of Manhattan at its creamiest, funny cameos by some of Broadway’s most employed thespians, and a plethora of fashion parades—the hundreds of outfits sported by the four leads make this the most couture-heavy movie since the great days of Norma Shearer in Riptide and The Women.
At least Depression-era rich-girl comedies like "My Man Godfrey" remembered the forgotten man; this one can't even remember to ask for the check.
No one wants "Sex and the City" to turn into "The Grapes of Wrath" -- and, admitted, "guy flicks" like the Bond movies indulge in their own product worship -- but times have painfully changed, and suddenly self-absorption and $18 cocktails don't seem so cute.
Despite getting high billing on the poster, Candice Bergen (2003's " The In-Laws ") has but a throwaway one-scene cameo as magazine editor Enid Frick.
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Combined, the experience even neared the 195 minutes it took Steven Spielberg to give justice to the entire Holocaust in 1993’s “Schindler’s List”.
Kim Cattrall (2005's " Ice Princess ") is wonderfully entertaining as the forthright Samantha Jones, but the limited aspects of the screenplay hold her back from reaching the potential her character deserves.
Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall, HBO's "Sex and the City") is a former rising skater with a cloudy history who is pushing her daughter Gen (Hayden Panettiere, "Raising Helen") to achieve the stardom she did not.
Kim Cattrall ("Sex and the City"), for example, plays a disgraced former champion skater who begrudgingly helps Casey while vicariously coaching her beautiful in-crowd daughter Gen (talented Hayden Panettiere) toward a career on the ice.
Oscar-winner Joan Cusack (In and Out) and TVs Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) show their courage by portraying these two generally unsympathetic mothers.
Chris Noth (2005's " The Perfect Man ") is appropriately magnetic as Big, but the character's actions too frequently are dictated solely by the strained requirements of the script in order to add conflict.
In her first role since her Oscar-winning turn in 2006's " Dreamgirls ," Jennifer Hudson is an earnest natural as Louise, though one has to wonder why Carrie needs an assistant so badly now that she doesn't appear to write much and has exorbitant amounts of free time.
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He goes by the name of Harry (Evan Handler), but he’s a ringer for Dr. Evil, from the “Austin Powers” franchise, with all the evil sucked away; what remains is fey and shiny-headed, smiling sweetly about something known only to himself.