Don’t turn your back on old friends.

Unable to find a companion to see Sex and the City 2 with at the cinema last summer (due to bad reviews and murmurs or racism) I finally got round to watching it on demand the other night, and I have to say I had a very enjoyable few hours.

It’s a shame that even some of the show’s biggest fans have been put off watching this film which although cheesy at times is a perfectly appropriate evolution of Carrie and co.

It starts with the ‘her best gay friend is marrying my best gay friend’ cringe-fest wedding. Carrie does indeed look ridiculous trying to steel the show as a best man in a tux and silly hat and you do hold your breath wondering if Liza Minnelli’s frail skeleton might crack during her ‘If you like it then you should have put a ring on it.’ song and dance routine, Beyonce heels and all. But flash back ten years and we’d all be loving it. Have we forgotten our boom time selves already? Do we treat all old friends so fecklessly?

Yes, the girls have never looked more like mutton dressed as lamb and Carrie’s wardrobe obsessions now seems lamer than ever. But the focus of the film is the big issues that are going on in their lives as Carrie and Big try to work out how to make a marriage without kids work, Charlotte struggles with being a mum of two while her young perky nanny attracts all the male attention, Miranda finds herself not listened to at work and Samantha pumps herself full of vitamins and hormones in an effort to stave off the menopause.

Perhaps it is out of cowardliness that past fans haven’t watched it. It is a bit like holding a big mirror up to our lives or what our future may bring. Yet the reality, that we’ve surely always known, is that we could never have stayed in the cosy escapist work of Carrie’s closet all our lives.

If you haven’t already, I urge you to watch it. Not because it’s brilliant, but because you will relate to it in some way. If not to at least one of the character story lines then perhaps to the awkwardness of being unaware of local customs when in a country like the United Arab Emirates, where the foursome go on holiday together. The girls by the way are not racist at all, they are simply trying to be themselves in a culture less tolerant than their own.

And if you can’t relate in any way it won’t matter, because the scene where Samantha loses it in an Abu Dhabi market, and starts gyrating and shouting out ‘I have sex’, is one of the funniest things you’ll see in a while.



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Posted 01:16 AM on Sat Mar 26 2011

By Wedding Belle

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