For every realistic scenario Sex and the City 2 portrayed, the cast will receive positive points, for every unrealistic and/or tacky scenario, they receive negative points.
Let us begin.
FYI. Stop reading if you don’t want me to ruin the entire plot for you. Seriously, stop reading right now.
(+1) Gays getting married (Hello, I live in Massachusetts, it is very legal here.)
(-2) Carrie wearing that ugly tux…and what was that on her head?! Maid of honor? No, princess of darkness.
(-4) the over-usage of white and Liza Minnelli at the wedding. (Necessary? I think not.)
(+12) Carrie and Big have marital problems because Big only wants to stay home and watch television, while Carrie wants to go live life.
(+2) Charlotte being nervous about Harry and the nanny
(-2) Charlotte being nervous about Harry and the nanny because the nanny is braless.
(-5) anyone waiting on a wait list for that ugly couch.
(-15) Carrie running into Aidan in the middle of a middle east flea market. That. Would. Never. Happen.
(-30) Big buying Carrie jewelry after she tells him about her kiss with Aidan. Yes women of America, cheating definitely deserves jewelry.
(-40) the airbrushing. I am talking to you, Kim Cattral.
(-102) Abu Dhabi as a whole, broken down below
(-2) the plane. Do planes like this actually exist?
(-2) the fact that they thought it was safe to go to the United Arab Emirates without a guide or cultural leader to aid them
(-10) the oasis in the middle of the desert, including the Danish guy who just happened to be wizzing by
(-5) couture and/or heels in the desert. They look ridiculous, not to mention they are not sweating nearly enough for the 115 degree weather they
are camel riding in.
(-40) Carrie losing her passport at said flea market, going back several days later, only to have it be in the same place she left it.
(+5) typical Americans, sticking out like a sore thumb wherever we go.
(-50) the women wear westernized couture under their saris. I mean, I am no expert, but shouldn’t Muslim women be a bit insulted that the producers patronized their culture by saying that they secretly want to be part of ours?
(+2) I mean, it looked like Abu Dhabi, right?
Total Reality Points: -185 meaning this would NEVER happen.
Closing thoughts:
- That’s enough, Samantha, we know you are hormonal, we don’t need you stuffing your face with hummus to drive the point home.
- Why did the producers need to make a mockery of how Americans are stereotypically inconsiderate and uneducated when in other countries? Leave it up to us to objectify ourselves to further scrutiny. Do we really need to go to Abu Dhabi to create a crisis? I think not. Whatever happened to a good old American conflict?
- I have a fever and the only prescription is more Smith Jarred…
SATC2 is just another example of how a sequel is never better than the original. Sigh.
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