Sex And The City

It makes no pretension to art, but Sex and the City succeeds as a ‘well-honed, character driven, comedy chickflick’

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It was obvious watching Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw leading her friends Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) in their long-awaited big-screen bow that fans of the celebrated small-screen quartet are going to be in “label and love” heaven. The gales of contented “civilian” audience laughter that greeted the preview proved that beyond argument.

Surprisingly, perhaps, writer-director Michael Patrick King’s cinematic follow-up to the cult TV series makes highly amusing entertainment for non-devotees who enjoy well-honed, character-driven comedy chick flicks. King brings non-devotees ingeniously up to speed during the opening credits before launching into the latest escapades of the four fortysomethings.  Everyone gets their comic/dramatic moments, with the focus, enjoyably, on Carrie’s on-off relationship with Chris Noth’s billionaire “Big”.