.....with my wife and we both enjoyed it enough to recommend it to the proper audience.
We watched all ninety-four of the 30 minute HBO episodes together, season by season on DVD, and found them interesting and entertaining.
Ladies (and men), I think you will be entertained, if you are already a "Sex and the City" fan.
But, ladies, I doubt you need a man to give you his opinion, whether it's right or wrong, about that.
Men, if you didn't find the half hour TV installments to your interest or taste, I don't believe there's any way you'll care very much at all for the two and a half hour movie.
Maybe that's a more worthwhile opinion.
For me, the short home screen episodes were very easy to enjoy, but the long movie took some commitment and effort to sit through from start to finish even though it was well paced.
IMHO, any movie that lengthy takes effort and commitment to watch, even when it's rewarding.
I thought it was well-conceived, well-written, well-made and well-acted and I appreciated the end product even though I almost certainly won't ever need to watch it or the HBO version again.
From my proud penile perspective, I thought it was, as a cinematic experience, exactly what I expected it to be and just what it needed to be.
My wife liked it, but felt it was somewhat lacking and a little less satisfying than what she had hoped for.
I liked the pace; it was about the same as seeing 4 or 5 of those TV episodes in a row.
And I dug the music, the actors, their acting, the fashions, the color, the cinematography and the locations and I thought the extension of the story plus the tying up of all the loose ends were logical and believable.
Given that I went to see this movie willingly, I'll willingly credit the moviemaking as being very well done.
The aging of the characters was a big part of the story and a few of them didn't age as well in the looks department as some of the others,
But, hey, that's life.
And that's what the movie showed.
I felt this flick was pretty much what it was supposed to be with plenty of predictability, staying true to the series, but also with sufficient surprises to keep the story moving.
As I expected, it features lots of the City, as in New York City, but I found less Sex, as in on screen sex, than I thought the specific titillating duality of the title indicated or even promised.
Maybe that was just my personal penile perspective hard at work again.
My wife thought there was more than enough sex.
Jennifer Hudson, from "American Idol" and "Dreamgirls" was the only new major character that I noticed and she was very good.
I think her performance here could be nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role by the Academy at Oscar time.
To me, she comes across as being very genuine on screen in a way that reminds me of Minnie Driver in "Circle of Friends" and "Good Will Hunting."
I look forward to seeing both Miss Driver and Jennifer in future, bigger and more challenging movie roles because I think they deserve and can handle them.
I dig chicks, both real chicks and movie chicks.
And I thought this was a good chick flick, although I don't think most men will find it as entertaining as I did.
It was a little too long, but I thought it accomplished what it intended to do.
My wife, however, thought it came up a little short even though she's not entirely sure just how or why.
She says it "lacked spark."
I wonder if she would have liked it better had she seen it with some of her sisters or female friends or our daughter or our daughter-in-law................without me there to spoil the vibe?
We watched all ninety-four of the 30 minute HBO episodes together, season by season on DVD, and found them interesting and entertaining.
Ladies (and men), I think you will be entertained, if you are already a "Sex and the City" fan.
But, ladies, I doubt you need a man to give you his opinion, whether it's right or wrong, about that.
Men, if you didn't find the half hour TV installments to your interest or taste, I don't believe there's any way you'll care very much at all for the two and a half hour movie.
Maybe that's a more worthwhile opinion.
For me, the short home screen episodes were very easy to enjoy, but the long movie took some commitment and effort to sit through from start to finish even though it was well paced.
IMHO, any movie that lengthy takes effort and commitment to watch, even when it's rewarding.
I thought it was well-conceived, well-written, well-made and well-acted and I appreciated the end product even though I almost certainly won't ever need to watch it or the HBO version again.
From my proud penile perspective, I thought it was, as a cinematic experience, exactly what I expected it to be and just what it needed to be.
My wife liked it, but felt it was somewhat lacking and a little less satisfying than what she had hoped for.
I liked the pace; it was about the same as seeing 4 or 5 of those TV episodes in a row.
And I dug the music, the actors, their acting, the fashions, the color, the cinematography and the locations and I thought the extension of the story plus the tying up of all the loose ends were logical and believable.
Given that I went to see this movie willingly, I'll willingly credit the moviemaking as being very well done.
The aging of the characters was a big part of the story and a few of them didn't age as well in the looks department as some of the others,
But, hey, that's life.
And that's what the movie showed.
I felt this flick was pretty much what it was supposed to be with plenty of predictability, staying true to the series, but also with sufficient surprises to keep the story moving.
As I expected, it features lots of the City, as in New York City, but I found less Sex, as in on screen sex, than I thought the specific titillating duality of the title indicated or even promised.
Maybe that was just my personal penile perspective hard at work again.
My wife thought there was more than enough sex.
Jennifer Hudson, from "American Idol" and "Dreamgirls" was the only new major character that I noticed and she was very good.
I think her performance here could be nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role by the Academy at Oscar time.
To me, she comes across as being very genuine on screen in a way that reminds me of Minnie Driver in "Circle of Friends" and "Good Will Hunting."
I look forward to seeing both Miss Driver and Jennifer in future, bigger and more challenging movie roles because I think they deserve and can handle them.
I dig chicks, both real chicks and movie chicks.
And I thought this was a good chick flick, although I don't think most men will find it as entertaining as I did.
It was a little too long, but I thought it accomplished what it intended to do.
My wife, however, thought it came up a little short even though she's not entirely sure just how or why.
She says it "lacked spark."
I wonder if she would have liked it better had she seen it with some of her sisters or female friends or our daughter or our daughter-in-law................without me there to spoil the vibe?
