Well this is the worst Nonoriginal Female-Focused Ensemble Comedy film development news I’ve heard since the Women remake: Apparently HBO’s long-threatened Sex and the City movie is now a go, with deals in place for the lead actresses and a fall start date.
What, on earth, is left to say about these characters? Remember how shrill and one-note they had grown by the (completely idiotic) series finale? Remember how much you wanted to ring Carrie by the cameltoe and send her flying off that building after Kristen Johnston?
Sex and the City did a lot of damage to the straight-woman generation that came of age in the late nineties and early oughts. It’s the adult equivalent of Disney Princess birthday parties for seven-year-olds. Often playing as a propaganda tool for the Guilianification of New York, its reign of terror could be tied to the rise of the muffin top, celebutantes, faghaggery-as-status-symbol, the designer cupcake craze and various other crimes against humanity.
So unless Carrie’s brain rots from syphilis, Samantha struggles with bone loss, and Charlotte and Miranda start screwing each other (maybe the film’s release could be serendipitously tied in with Kristin Davis’ coming out of the closet), I’ll be seeing this movie sometime after I catch License to Wed 2.
Sex and the City heads to theaters [Variety]
Lighten the drama up. It’s just a movie, if you don’t like then don’t see it.
I take it that they all realized that they needed the money enough to tolerate working together again? Sigh really what the hell was in the series that warranted a fucking movie? maybe they’ll fight terrorism by screwing random taxi drivers?
“Often playing as a propaganda tool for the Guilianification of New York, its reign of terror could be tied to the rise of the muffin top…”
Genius! That’s all I have to say.
Poor SJP. She never did quite catch on that when reviewers referred to her as “coltish,” they meant “horsey.”