Sex and the City - The Movie

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Movie
German title Sex and the City - The Movie
Original title Sex and the City: The Movie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 139/145 ( Extended Version ) minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Michael Patrick King
script Michael Patrick King
production Eric M. Cyphers ,
Michael Patrick King,
John P. Melfi ,
Sarah Jessica Parker ,
Darren Star
music Aaron Zigman
camera John Thomas
cut Michael Berenbaum
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Sex and the City

Successor  →
Sex and the City 2

Sex and the City - The Movie is an American comedy film from the year 2008 . It is based on the 1998-2004 television series Sex and the City . Directed by Michael Patrick King , who also wrote the script and co-produced the film. The sequel Sex and the City 2 followed in 2010 .

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Four years after the end of the series, all four friends still seem to have their personal happy endings. Charlotte and Harry adopted little Lily, Samantha moved to Los Angeles with Smith to further his career, Miranda and Steve live in Brooklyn with little Brady and Carrie is still with John alias "Mr. Big “together.

In their search for an apartment together, the two come across a penthouse that Carrie loves so much that Big decides to buy it. The much too small wardrobe is converted into a walk-in one, in which Carrie leaves a pair of expensive shoes designed by Manolo Blahnik for the inauguration. After initial joy, Carrie expresses concern about the legal aspect of a home together, and Big suggests they get married. Carrie agrees, surprised but gladly. The two decide to marry on a small scale.

Miranda struggles to balance family life and work and confesses to her friends that she has not had sex with Steve in six months. One evening, broken Steve confesses that he cheated on her. Miranda leaves him without a chance for a clarifying conversation. Everyday life has returned to Samantha and Smith, too, and Sam feels increasingly neglected. With envy she watches her new neighbor, who has a pronounced sex life.

Carrie is a model for a Vogue photo series in designer wedding dresses. When a Vivienne Westwood dress is given to her as a present, the wedding preparations quickly get out of hand. Big vented his displeasure, but for Carrie's sake lets the wedding preparations continue as planned. The night before the wedding, Steve shows up to speak to Miranda. When she meets Big, hurt and angry, she throws him at the head that he and Carrie are crazy to get married because the marriage is ruining everything. Big is deeply shocked by this statement and tells Carrie about his doubts, which he can calm down by assuring him that they will continue to be themselves.

The next morning, Carrie is taken to the New York Public Library designated as the wedding venue . Big tries desperately to speak to Carrie. But it is buzzing with people and wrapped in a huge dress and veil. A little later, she learns that Big does not feel in a position to marry her. Horrified, she leaves the library with her friends and meets Big on the street, who has changed his mind. She hits him with her bridal bouquet before the women drive away furiously.

The friends accompany Carrie on the booked honeymoon to Mexico . She recovers only slowly from the severe blow and throws her cell phone into the sea to be out of reach. After returning to her apartment, which has meanwhile been cleared, Carrie decides to hire an assistant who she finds in Louise in St. Louis . Carrie asks her, among other things, to make Big's e-mails disappear, which are then redirected to another mailbox.

Charlotte finds to her amazement and delight that she is pregnant. Miranda, who, despite her guilty conscience, never found the right moment, finally confesses her role in Big's Doubts to Carrie. She then angrily throws at her that she thinks her separation from Steve was a big mistake. Miranda begins couples therapy with Steve, the aim of which is that they should both separately decide whether they want to try a fresh start. If so, they will appear on the Brooklyn Bridge at some point . In fact, they both come and happily hug each other again.

Louise, who made up with her ex-boyfriend on her Christmas vacation, reveals to Carrie that she will be returning to St. Louis to marry him. Samantha lives in increasing frustration, has acquired a small dog as a distraction, and is pissed off when Smith moves her on Valentine's Eve. When she shocked her friends with significant weight gain, she admits that because she feels indebted to Smith, she tries to distract herself from her need to have sex with her attractive neighbor by overeating. Ultimately, she breaks up with Smith, who still means a lot to her but cannot meet her needs.

Heavily pregnant Charlotte meets Big in a restaurant. An angry argument ensues and her amniotic sac bursts. Big then drives her to the hospital. After little rose is born, Carrie learns of the events. Harry asks her to call Big because he wrote to Big, but she doesn't answer. At home, Carrie searches her mail and e-mail looking for Big's messages until she realizes that Louise once got rid of them at her request. She notices that Big, who couldn't find the right words, had typed her many love letters from well-known men and in the end the marriage vow she suggested "I will always love you." When she was still considering whether to contact Big, she called Louise to tell her the penthouse locks will be changed in an hour. To save her shoes, Carrie jumps into the next taxi. But when she enters the walk-in closet, Big stands in front of her, who had the same thought. The two happily embrace and he makes her a marriage proposal, which they seal with a shoe. The two are now getting married alone at the registry office . Only Carrie's friends and their families attend the joyful celebration that follows. The film ends with Samantha's 50th birthday, which she celebrates with her friends.

backgrounds

The film was shot in New York City , Malibu ( California ) and Beverly Hills rotated. The Silvercup Studios in Long Island City had already been used for the production of the television series. Filming began on September 19, 2007 and ended on January 22, 2008. The film sets of the apartments of Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes and Charlotte York Goldenblatt previously shown in the television series have been restored, while new apartments were designed for Samantha Jones and Mr. Big . Bradshaw's workbench had been given to a Smithsonian Institution museum after filming of the series ended and the return was refused. After difficult negotiations, the table was loaned to the film team for a limited time.

The film opened in France and Great Britain, among others, on May 28, 2008. The German theatrical release took place on May 29, 2008 and the US on May 30, 2008. The film was set with an estimated budget of 65 million US dollars on the opening weekend in the US $ 55.7 million. This makes the film the most successful theatrical release of a television series to date. The film has gross gross proceeds of $ 415 million.

Reviews

In a positive review, the film-dienst saw the film in terms of style and content as a seamless continuation of the television series and considered the fairy-tale quality of the proven successful concept to be legitimate. "This is now again wrapped in a relaxed, almost laconic way with irony, wit, sex, sentiment and wisdom in an action that you follow naturally."

In a mixed review, Spiegel Online said that the strip with countless fashion brands is a cloakroom circus in which even the most romantic of the romantic gestures, marriage, is immediately marketed. Among other things, a dialogue was found that expresses “the commodity form of modern man” in an unsurpassed manner. The perfect partner for these women is not a man, but the metropolis of New York.

For epd Film it was pointless to state that the film was an episode blown up to the length of a movie. Like the series, the film is "completely absurdly ridiculous and on the other hand quite lively and amusing". The plot seems in part badly constructed, and next to the dazzling women, the men pale.

For the Frankfurter Rundschau , the film only offers the well-known and remains undecided between conventional feature films, stretched individual episodes, and materialized series. “Perhaps the signs of fatigue from a television series that simply outlived your idea for too long and drove its characters into increasingly absurd entanglements may also have an effect. The film does not help in this regard, but offers a worthy alternative to the series finale, which is generally perceived as disappointing. ”The film is also unable to support the consumer fixation, which is already not quite convincing in the series.

The Tagesspiegel also compared the film with the series: "Of course, everything in the film is one size bigger." Unfortunately, he concentrates on the relationship conflicts. In contrast to the series, New York only plays a minor role, and that makes the metropolitan paint flute. On top of that, the dialogues remained much better. The film is a must for fans of the series only.

The press found that the director of the only reasonably entertaining film, which turned out to be 2½ hours too long, was making series expectations and was not even trying to make a cinema. "In spite of all the brewing about unconditional female self-determination, the fact that all the femme fashionables bend into conservative life planning is dreary."

The Stuttgarter Zeitung missed any intellectual renewal in the world of series, thought the dialogues were better and questioned whether the idolatry of consumer brands is really a form of feminism, because one should prepare for “constantly screaming forty-year-olds who dress like twenty-year-olds and spend a lot of time and have little meaning in their life. "

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  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Sex and the City - The Film . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 116 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Sex and the City - The Film . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ See Parker for details about the sequel , accessed January 10, 2010
  4. ^ Filming locations for Sex and the City: The Movie , accessed May 11, 2008
  5. ↑ a b Review of May 6, 2008 at www.emanuellevy.com , accessed May 11, 2008
  6. ^ Box office / business for Sex and the City: The Movie , accessed May 11, 2008
  7. ↑ Release dates for Sex and the City: The Movie , accessed May 11, 2008
  8. ↑ a b Boxoffice USA on spiegel.de , accessed on June 2, 2008
  9. ↑ film-dienst No. 12/2008, pp. 31–32, by Jörg Gerle: Sex and the City: The Movie
  10. ^ Spiegel Online, May 27, 2008, by Daniel Haas: Labels, Love, Disasters
  11. ^ Epd Film No. 6/2008, p. 35, by Anke Sterneborg: Sex and the City
  12. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, May 28, 2008, p. 29, by Michael Kohler: More buying frenzy than Schaulust
  13. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel, May 29, 2008, ticket p. 3, by Frederik Hanssen: Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten
  14. ↑ Die Presse, May 29, 2008, by Markus Keuschnigg: Tailoring and cobbling
  15. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 29, 2008, p. 36, by Iris Benker: Shoppen, shoppen, Männer

Review mirror

positive
Rather positive
  • Cinema , No. 7/2008, by Alex Attimonelli, p. 56 (moving, good teamwork, ladies charming and funny, but exaggerated romance)
Mixed
  • epd Film No. 6/2008, p. 35, by Anke Sterneborg: Sex and the City (3 out of 5 stars; according to the expectations of the TV series)
  • Spiegel Online , May 27, 2008, by Daniel Haas: Labels, Love, Disasters
  • Stern , May 29, 2008, p. 135, reading, looking, listening (the film is more mature than the series and everything is predictable)
Rather negative
negative

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