Sex and the City in... London?

"It was coarse, sentimental, and outrageously materialistic - just as we hoped and expected it would be." Sex and the City: The Movie premiered in London last night and Celia Walden was there. Also in the Telegraph, John Hiscock talks with Cynthia Nixon.

"If the atmosphere inside the cinema bordered on the devotional and the theatre was filled with the sounds of women emoting, outside the atmosphere was hysterical," writes Will Pavia, who gives the movie itself two out of five stars in the London Times.

Updated through 5/20.

"While buying at auction represents a sort of cultural pinnacle, all the seasons of Sex and the City are dotted with interactions with the art and literary world at various status levels," writes Pia Catton in a piece on the TV series for the New York Sun. "Of the four women, it's Carrie whose style (and lifestyle) makes the biggest leap."

Earlier: Emily Nussbaum's New York profile of Sarah Jessica Parker and Ginia Bellafonte's New York Times profile of writer-director Michael Patrick King. Also, why women love it so: Karina Longworth (SpoutBlog), Deborah Orr (Independent) and Joan Smith (Telegraph).

Updates, 5/15: "For a series so steeped in romance, the eagerly awaited Sex and the City movie feels a trifle half-hearted," writes Brian Lowry in Variety.

But Screen Daily's Mike Goodridge finds it sports "a juicily melodramatic plotline and more over-the-top fashion than is decent for one movie. Fans of the series, which ran for six seasons between 1998 and 2004, will not be disappointed by the film, which runs to 140 minutes and plays like a new season in itself."

Updates, 5/20: "With 10 days until Carrie Bradshaw and friends return in Sex and the City: The Movie, Hollywood is sensing the kind of excitement that usually has more to do with light sabers than with stilettos," reports Michael Cieply in the New York Times.

And there's another review to catch up with: Michael Rechtshaffen's in the Hollywood Reporter: "Bottom Line: Not enough sex; too much city."

Posted by dwhudson at May 13, 2008 6:28 AM