Sex and the City Movie Review, from an Addicted Fan

We did it all: The outfits, the drinks, the last episodes. Everything one can do to prepare themselves for a great movie premiere, we did before the great night of the Sex and the City movie premiere in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Friday, May 30th, 2008, New Line Cinema brought back our four favorite girls: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. The excitement had grown in the insanely popular fan base for this big event. When the music began, and it opened to four new girls walking down a New York City Street and then flashed to Carrie in an amazing white gown with a flower bigger than her head, we knew it was on.

Following years of re-runs, all SATC fans' expectations were high, and this movie did not disappoint. The glamour, the accessories, the dresses, the hair, the wedding dress...all things material that we had grown to love and adore were more than we could behold during the movie. The fashion was a visual feast for the eyes, of beauty and glamour, that was beyond our imagination.

Come armed with tissues: the dramatic opening 30 minutes is sure to break the hearts of fans everywhere. You cry, you feel, and you mourn with those characters who have become your best friends over the past 10 years. The movie is a roller coaster of emotion that packs punches and cuddles within instants of each other.

Sarah Jessica Parker, who reprised her role as Carrie Bradshaw, now successful author, brings to the table the platter of emotional turmoil while continuing the relationship battles with Big. A.K.A. John James Preston, Chris Noth plays the emotionally detached character who has grown in leaps and bounds as we last saw him in Sex and the City. He still carries the boyish charm we love, but also brings back the emotions that originally caused our love/hate relationship with him in the tv series.

Kim Cattrall, playing Samantha Jones, is the sexual goddess of the series, evermore. Still tied to her younger lover, Smith Jerrod (played by hottie Jason Lewis), she battles living far from her friends and deciding whether to stay committed to one man. As much as she loves her Smith, she also loves exploring.

Harry and Charlotte Goldenblatt, played by Evan Handler and Kristin Davis, bring back the loveable couple: now a family. Their lives are moving smoothly along with their adopted daughter, when the surprise that Charlotte has dreamed of, comes knocking at their door.

Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is sharing life with her son Brady, and husband Steve Brady played by David Eigenburg. They are battling life with indiscretions. As Miranda's cynical side kicks in and creates waves within her friends' relationships, she comes to realizations of what it means to be true to her own family.

The movie is filled with emotional turmoil, and the beauty of fashion, love and relationships. It carries the unexpected emotion that the TV series never quite touched upon. Sex and the City, the movie, goes into the realms of deep passion, understanding and pain. It catches the humor and wittiness of the original series, yet stirs in you something much deeper.

By the end of the movie, you feel deeper connected to these four amazing women and their lives than ever before. You carry with you their pain and their burden, and hope for another step ahead to continue the addiction we all have with the four epic characters of Sex and the City.