THE TRUTH ABOUT SEX AND THE CITY

I have to say that I was anticipating the movie for months.  I am a huge fan of the series.  But the movie was a major disappointment.  How could they have misunderstood what was good about the series?  Carrie is searching for love in the series.  She finds it at the end and we assume that her a BIG live happily ever after.  Well in the movie they go through some bumps.  Some strange scenarios.  What on earth were they thinking? 

When BIG gets cold feet at the last minute, Carrie freaks out and runs away.  Instead of growing from the experience she reverts back to her previous self, even back to her own apartment which she has now bought twice.  I never go the sense that BIG had taken her so far away from who she was that she had to reclaim herself.  I think she was expressing herself when she discovered that she wanted a big wedding and that it was BIG who was the skiddish one. 

There are just big parts that don’t make sense.  It would have been a FAR more interesting movie if they didn’t tackle this old familiar ground again.  They should have shown us the fairy tale wedding and the gorgeous apartment and the bliss to follow as Carrie now tries to live in Candace Bushnell’s Lipstick Jungle. 

It is four years later.  Carrie is 42 and will they ever have kids?  We don’t know.  What kind of father will BIG be?  We don’t know?  What kind of mother will Carrie be?  What kind of house will they have in the Hamptons?  Could we just find out about how to survive the love once you find it?

Like with Miranda, her husband cheats on her and her girlfriends give her shit for not taking him back.  What kind of support system is that? 

Like Samantha, running around waiting for Smith.  Why?  She has a management company with only one client?  Please!  She would be flooded with offers from other clients.  Ok so she would rather be in NYC.  So she should move back there and let him follow her.  Or let her find someone new.  I don’t like that she goes back to NYC with a stupid dog and nothing else to show for it.  She leaves because she is attracted to her next door neighboor?  She is 50 and single.  Do we really believe that she can still get any man she wants?  Ok lets assume she is like Cher and she can get any man she wants.  She ends man less but with her woman friends. 

Charolette seems to be the only real happy ending in the movie. She married her guy and now has two children.  She is happy and living a great life.  Maybe we have it wrong.  Maybe Charolette is the true heroine. 

Disappointed in the City.