As though the creative team behind “Sex and the City” hadn’t done enough to set back women’s rights twenty years, the producers are back with a sequel to make sure they finish them off.
Hollywood Insider confirmed the rumors of a sequel to the original film late last week and fabulous ladies are shrieking with delight. Warner Brothers had expressed interest in the film since the box-office success of “Sex and the City” was so unexpectedly and now it seems that they plan to follow through. This would be all fine and dandy if it were just another forgettable blockbuster movie, but the original movie happens to be one of the most eye-searing experience known to man, not to mention the television series. When the series began in 1998, it was chronicled the sex lives of three women in the early thirties and one in their forties (Kim Cattrall), and while extremely shallow and vapid, it was at least smart and a little sexy too. As of the movie ten years later, we are following the sex lives (which are slowly becoming less sexy) of three women in their forties and one in her fifties.
Are we to believe that women of this age are slaying young studs on a regular basis? And isn’t this already getting too close to grandma sex for comfort? By the time the sequel gets filming Kim Cattrall will be at least fifty-two. With everything that’s gone done (Sarah Jessica Parker and Big married) what more could they possibly do with this story that’s come to its logical conclusion? Is Carrie Bradshaw’s (SPJ) heroine addiction going to drive away Mr. Big? Is Samantha Jones Cattrall) finally going to come clean about the heinous amount of sexually transmitted diseases she’s contracted over the years, will Charlotte confess that her good-girl image has been a front and she is really a high-priced call girl, and will Miranda stop annoying us?
Hopefully this sequel will be the death of “Sex and the City,” but certainly someone will think it has the gams for a third movie. We can only pray the backlash comes back hard by the time the sequel hits the theaters, but either way, we’re not making the mistake of paying to see this one no matter how loud the cultural zeitgeist is buzzing at the time.
