Sex and the City 2
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Directed By: Michael Patrick King
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, & Cynthia Nixon
Critics have not been too kind to Sex and the City 2. Now, normally, I don't pay much attention to critics or their reviews. There is only one opinion that matters to me and that is my own. I do read Roger Ebert's reviews, as his writing is simply brilliant, and I also read a little-known critic named Dustin Putnam, whose unabashed courage in reviewing is very admirable (You can visit him at http://www.themovieboy.com/). Other than that, though, I don't really give a damn. Alas, I have been fascinated by the reviews of this movie, as so many of them are packed with a venom usually reserved for remakes of old horror movies. I'm not sure why, though I would be willing to bet it could have something to do with the recent economic downturn. Critics, not surprisingly, have been hit hard, as their jobs are not, you know, crucial to the survival of our species. It must then be rather demoralizing to watch a movie like Sex and the City 2 that features characters who, though they do discuss the recession in passing, seem to have only become richer and richer since the first movie. When one character bemoans the fact that she wasn't able to sell her second apartment in Manhattan because of the housing crisis and thus must simply hold on to it for frivolous uses here and there, even I have to admit that it could be interpreted as rather insulting.
