Rex Reed Poops on Sex and the City 2 — Page 2

#26

Rex Reed Poops on Sex and the City 2

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:03am

As of a few hours ago, Rotten Tomatoes has this rated with a giant goose egg...no positive reviews, nine negative.

USA Today hated it too... 1 1/2 stars.

I liked the show and didn't hate the first movie, but I've thought the trailers for this one looked like crap from the word go. Abu Dhabi? Why?

#27

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:20am

i think they really screwed up by not including wilbur. i mean how many cheap laughs could they have gotten by putting sarah jessica gluefactory in big glasses and just having her bray "oh, wilbur" a few times. when i heard he'd been cut out i knew that this version of mr. ed was never gonna fly.

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#28

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:46am

I loved the New York Post review, which was surprisingly astute, considering the publication. And it calls into question the fetishizing of Abu Dhabi here, despite its reprehensible treatment of women:

The girls aren’t interested in anything except shopping, drinking and strutting through the desert in slo-mo, but what’s most appalling is that they vamp to “I Am Woman” in this land of sand Nazis. A veil “cuts back on the Botox bill!” chirps Samantha. Har. In Abu Dhabi husbands can legally beat their wives — and Carrie thinks this place is Oz, a cure for her boredom with a zillionaire husband who, she complains, eats too much takeout.
Sucks in the City

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#29

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:52am

The women in this film are too old to be acting like immature 18-year-olds.

So it's just like the Rent film!

#30

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 11:59am

It jumped from 7% to 9% on Rotten Tomatoes in the last hour! Maybe it will crack double digits!

#31

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 12:53pm

I loathed the first movie. It was nothing like the early seasons of the show, and managed to take what was salvagable from the later seasons and screw that up as well. It had nothing in common with the show except the characters- it was like really bad OOC fanfic.

My only expectation from the sequel is that it will piss me off even more, but still win over even more bandwagon fans.

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#32

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:24pm

This thread title reminded me of Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog:

"Sex And Dee Ceety Two ees my favorite movie... TO POOP ON!"

#33

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 3:19pm

I used to watch the series (I got free DVDs) but had to stop because I spent all my time trying to figure out how they paid for everything- There was one episode that dealt with Carrie not being able to buy her apartment because she'd spent some ridiculous amount on shoes but aside from that these women lived the lives of multi-millionaires without ever explaining where the unending stream of money came from.

#34

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 4:26pm

Miranda was a lawyer. Samantha ran her own PR firm. Charlotte married well the first time and got a good settlement. Carrie's apartment was rent controlled and had a ridiculously low rent.

#35

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 4:55pm

I remember all that stuff about them as well. And didn't Charlotte also come from a wealthy family? I always got that trust-fund vibe from her and sort of remember her focus on "society". Coming-out parties, cotillions, pearls and whatnot. It seemed like her background is what led her into the first marriage story line, but I think her character arc was always to have her personality shine through and bring her more down to earth, hence the second marriage.

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#36

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 6:02pm

You were expecting GWTW?. I thought Rex was dead.

I see another DVD to add to my collection of rotten movies.

The sad part is that it will still make a ton of money while some really good pictures make a buck & change.

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#37

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 7:01pm

Charlotte also used to run a successful art gallery, before she decided to give it up because she was marrying a doctor.

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#38

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 9:49pm

Art galleries pay that well? They still seem to be ridiculously well-off especially considering they never seem to work.

#39

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/26/10 at 9:54pm

The filmmakers could have these four women sitting around a campfire lighting their farts for two hours and it would still be one of the biggest moneymakers of 2010.

#40

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 5:15am

The filmmakers could have these four women sitting around a campfire lighting their farts for two hours and it would still be one of the biggest moneymakers of 2010.

Sad but true. There's no accounting for taste these days. Or class for that matter.

#41

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 8:26am

I have a friend who is obsessed with this movie and is posting on Facebook about it every five seconds. He's currently in a theater waiting for a 9:30am screening to start. I'm afraid if it's as bad as everyone says it is he won't survive the disappointment.

#42

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 8:27am

THAT sounds infinitely more exciting than watching these whores cavort around Abu Dhabi actually.

#43

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 8:41am

i just wish they could have had a crossover with the human centipede. now that woulda put butts in the mouths, er, seats.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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#44

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 8:53am

Papa, we have to wait until the next movie for that when the girls take a fabulous trip to Germany to explore the shopping around the concentration camps, where Carrie discovers that there are still hundreds of thousands of shoes just sitting there in piles!

#45

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 9:18am

No Manohlos, no dice.

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#46

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 10:15am

But they're VINTAGE!!!

#47

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 10:17am

So are the actresses.

#48

a horse is a horse

Posted: 5/27/10 at 10:18am

Oh SNAP! LOL

#49

Poop

Posted: 5/27/10 at 12:23pm

I wonder what Rex Reed thought of FECES.

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#50

Poop

Posted: 5/27/10 at 12:23pm

He ate it up!