Sex and the City-- minus he city
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The girls are back in the city.
Well, not exactly. They’re not actually in the city. They’re in Abu Dhabi. And they’re not actually girls anymore. They are middle-aged women. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) admits to 52, for goodness sakes, and takes 40 hormone pills at a time to keep hot flashes at bay.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In the beginning of Sex and the City 2, there is the gay wedding. And by gay I don’t mean just the grooms, Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson) and Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone). I mean the wedding is gay.
In what is likely a tribute to 1930s MGM musicals, this ceremony features a dozen violinists, a male chorus dressed in white tie and tails and wearing sequined top hats. The coup de grace, swans swim in a little pool.
Someone asks “could this wedding get any gayer?” The answer of course is yes, when Liza Minelli comes out to conduct the ceremony. (She also does a hip-hop number.)
Why the gay wedding? It has little to do with the rest of the film, so I have to assume it’s a political statement. And it is symptomatic of what is wrong with the film. Basically, SATC2 is episodic -- tiny vignettes like The Wedding Scenes -- rather than a longer, continuous story -- like, say, in a real movie.
Well, not exactly. They’re not actually in the city. They’re in Abu Dhabi. And they’re not actually girls anymore. They are middle-aged women. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) admits to 52, for goodness sakes, and takes 40 hormone pills at a time to keep hot flashes at bay.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In the beginning of Sex and the City 2, there is the gay wedding. And by gay I don’t mean just the grooms, Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson) and Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone). I mean the wedding is gay.
In what is likely a tribute to 1930s MGM musicals, this ceremony features a dozen violinists, a male chorus dressed in white tie and tails and wearing sequined top hats. The coup de grace, swans swim in a little pool.
Someone asks “could this wedding get any gayer?” The answer of course is yes, when Liza Minelli comes out to conduct the ceremony. (She also does a hip-hop number.)
Why the gay wedding? It has little to do with the rest of the film, so I have to assume it’s a political statement. And it is symptomatic of what is wrong with the film. Basically, SATC2 is episodic -- tiny vignettes like The Wedding Scenes -- rather than a longer, continuous story -- like, say, in a real movie.
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