Sex Fans Plan as Reviewers Pan

With the Sex and the City movie just 10 days away from release, the film is finally getting some press. While early reviews are panning Parker & Co's big screen effort, there's still, apparently, a lot of interest and a lot to talk about.

The NY Times likens the fandom of the stiletto set to that of the light sabers crowd. Advanced tickets are being bought in bulk for opening night, flights are being booked to see the Big Movie in the Big City, fabulous outfits are being carefully chosen, and the term "girl's night out" is likely being overused in emails. Special tours have even been created for the Sex-crazed.

In Manhattan, On Location Tours sold out 300 tickets, at $130 each, for a special 10-hour tour of “Sex and the City” hot spots. The night peaks with a group viewing of the movie at a reserved theater auditorium in Midtown, followed by a party at a club in Chelsea.

Not everyone is feeling the love, however, something that was all but shouted from the cover of a recent Time Out NY (pictured). Variety chimed in calling the 2 ½ hour romcom "half-hearted," alluding that one cannot, in fact, go home again; while the Hollywood Reporter echoed the sentiments, saying the movie was filled with too much of a glossy Manhattan, and not enough s-e-x.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on May 20, 2008 4:44 PM

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robingee

I like SATC, but I don't think for a moment that it's realistic. Are there women who do? What dorks.

Think2wice

I missed it when SATC stopped being about sex, and all about clothes.

Reflect

I think the movie will be so overblown and exaggerated i wont like it. I think the best episodes were the middle series. Its a in the moment type thing. The moment passed long ago

Jerk Store

Are you serious? A 10 hour trip for tourists to locations featured in a fictional TV show even remotely captures "the New York City experiance [sic]?"

I'm far from the biggest detractor of the show -- I don't think that the intent was the interpretation that a lot of the fans have given it and I also think that it did a decent job putting an exaggerated and comical mirror to some real aspects of NYC. But jesus, be real.

MarygraceNYC

Sex and the City rules!! I have lived so so many of their situations in real life. If people want to spend 10 plus hours trying to capture the New York City experiance, so be it. Live and let live.

Barbj8

#10, what kind of women are you hanging out with? Bladder problems, reeking of piss?! Gimme a break. It's okay to have a cult following for Star Wars & Harry Potter, but not SATC?

spiritross

Right on Zodak

at least Star Wars taught a generation to do or do not there is no try

Sex City taught a generation of women how to be sexist towards men

for shame NYT

zodak

The NY Times likens the fandom of the stiletto set to that of the light sabers crowd.

i am deeply offended by this comparison.

NY Times, you have failed me for the last time.

sonyactivision

All the hair, makeup, and pricey shoes can't conceal their bladder control problem. Those theatres will be reeking of piss by the end of their run.

nymichi

SATC sucks!

Michi

suepart

girl's night out- you mean old bag's night out.

sex and the city the movie aka horseface and the other three old bags' unwanted return

fakenewyorker

this reminds me of going to a club in the meatpacking district in the early 2000s, i found myself surrounded by cougars on a satc larp. it was so depressing i wanted to shoot myself.

babyhitler

I remember going to my friends place once and he had a sex and the city s1 dvd boxset and it dawned on me that he was Gay. I never thought about it cause I'm not prejudiced or jump to conclusions about anything but I just added up all the things he did and a lightbulb turned on. 1. he always wore tight black leather pants 2. he always unbuttoned his shirts 4 buttons from the top 3. he loved to wear jack spade manbags and dolce and gabbana formal deep v-neck knitwear 4. He did yoga 5. he had a man lisp. 6. His place was impeccably decorated 7. His friends were gay. 8. He'd get seriously offended by all my Gandalf and Frodo Manboy love jokes. It all made sense. For the life of me, I never once thought the dude was gay, just overly metrosexual, until I saw that Sex and the City DVD boxset. SATC makes dudes gay.

ladywarfield

"....and the term "girl's night out" is likely being overused in emails."

thanks for that! I actually laughed out loud.

Gregoire

The 10 hours must include the film and club, or else that would require drug usage to get through the night, and I don't think any of the SOTC girls were into that.

robingee

With costume changes every hour!

Nick S

wait, so they're going on a 10 hour tour, then sitting through a 2 1/2 hour movie (WTF??) and THEN going to a club?? these women are going to be dropping like flies.