Sex and the City

The big-screen version of the HBO series tackles weighty issues with grace but is still very funny

It's impossible to talk about the new "Sex and the City" movie without first mentioning "Sex and the City," the HBO series; or the rabid fan devotion it enjoyed; or the equally fervent antipathy (female and male) it inspired on socio-political grounds (sort of like the late-'90s equivalent of not letting your daughter play with Barbies); or the recently much-affirmed straight-male aversion to the series, predicated on cooties. In fact, the film arrives shrouded in such a fog of expectation, preconception, anticipation and (now with more post-Hillary bite!) gender bias that it's hard to see -- or write about -- the movie for the trees. [...]

di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (5565 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 maggio 2008