Four years after it came to an end, Sex and the City is back, and the clothes and New York are as big a part of it as they've ever been, while the women the world grew to know so well over the course of six seasons seem to be exactly where we left them.
This is, of course, the story of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), her slutty friend Samantha (Kim Cattrall), her conservative friend Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and her... um... other friend, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon). If you're already close with these women, you might be surprised by how easy it is to get reacquainted.
Charlotte is happy with her family, Miranda lives in Brooklyn with her man, Steve, although that relationship has certainly had its ups and downs, Samantha has moved to the West Coast to help the career of her actor boyfriend, Smith, and Carrie and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) are still doing that thing that Carrie and Big do.
And while Sex and the City easily and gracefully glides back into the lives of its characters, it does so at the expense of advancing them. We don't know a whole lot more at the end of the movie than we knew at the end of the series. Yes, "events" happen and things change a bit, but really, this is all kind of pointless.
But pointless doesn't have to be bad, and in fact, writer-director Michael Patrick King presents some of the funnier scenarios for the girls since the middle of the series, when it was clearly at its artistic peak. There's a cozy 15-minute chunk of the film that takes place in Mexico, and it's all pretty funny and has the rapier wit the show was known for. There are intimate conversations that these characters share that are nearly as good as some of the best ones from the series, if less fresh, less rapid fire, and more weighty.
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