Movie Review: ‘Sex and the City 2’

Without skipping a beat, SATC2 immediately re-engages you.
Movie Review: ‘Sex and the City 2’
(L-R) Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes in 'SATC2'. Craig Blankenhorn/Warner Bros. Pictures
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(L-R) Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes in 'SATC2'. (Craig Blankenhorn/Warner Bros. Pictures )

What happens after you think you got everything that you’ve ever wanted? SATC2 tries to answer this question and seamlessly segues from the first film to two years following the heartfelt conclusion of SATC. At the end of the first film, Carrie and Big finally tie the knot, Charlotte gives birth to biological daughter, Rose, Miranda forgives Steve after he cheats on her, and Samantha moves back to NY after breaking up with Smith Jerrod.

Without skipping a beat, SATC2 immediately re-engages you, starting from Stanford and Anthony’s outlandishly lavish wedding, with a surprise cameo by Liza Minnelli (singing Beyonce’s Single Ladies!). Our fabulous foursome are still stylish as ever, and while their lives appear to be the image of perfection, it becomes evident that there are cracks in the veneer as the women come to terms with reconciling what’s expected of them—as mothers, wives, career women in the workplace—to their own definitions of their dreams, goals, and self-identities.