SEX & THE CITY II

SEX & THE CITY II  (Rated R for brief sexual material, and throughout profanity & drug content):  The "girls" take a sun-drenched adventure. Still believing in the rich life, in all things superficial & material, they whisk away from Gotham to a luxurious, exotic Mid-Eastern hot spot, where parties never end - an escape that comes at the right moment for them as they retreat from the traditional roles of marriage, motherhood &  all things menial.

You can't forget the quartet of actresses, now following the script & direction of Michael Patrick King, who also co-produced the dull mess with one of the four - Sarah Jessica Parker.

Critical comments:

"This is new torture porn." 

"Straining under a thin plot stretched to 150-minutes, it's an unfortunate coda to the long-running HBO series."

"It has very little sex and not a lot of city.  Bad move."

"The stakes are so low that, during the girls' final madcap sprint through an outdoor Arab market disguised in burqas, the unspeakable outcome they're trying to forestall is the possibility of having to fly home in coach."

"This movie panders and condescends to its audience as blatantly as the Transformers movies do to theirs. It looks shallow and immaterial on the surface; digging deeper, you find it's even less valuable than you thought.."

"It delivers clunky jokes, non-engaging plot twists & characterizations, and - worst of all - it's ugly to look at."

"The movie completely unravels into a pastiche of wish-fulfillment, slapstick & ham-handed social commentary."