Can't wait for Sexy and the City to come out on theater~~ I love this show!!! Box office performance The film has so far experienced great commercial success, making $26.93 million domestically on its opening day. On its Saturday showing, the gross total was down roughly 30%, but its three-day opening weekend total was still an impressive $56,848,056 - a total that makes it the biggest opening ever for a romantic comedy as well as the best debut ever for an R-rated comedy. This is also the biggest opening box office for a movie with a female lead cast. Overseas, the film has grossed $37,214,577 in its first week of release, bringing the worldwide total to $94,062,633. As of June 8, 2008, the film has grossed a worldwide total of $136,786,392. Critical reception The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of June 8, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 53% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 121 reviews — with the consensus that "Sex and the City loses steam in the transition to the big screen, but will still thrill fans of the show." The movie received an average score of 65.9% from 60 film critics according to Movie Tab. It has a 4.8 score from 11,651 voters on the IMDB as of June 3, 2008. Brian Lowry of Variety said the film "..feels a trifle half-hearted", while Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times stated "[the film] tackles weighty issues with grace but is still very funny". She praised Michael Patrick King's work saying very few movies "are willing to go to such dark places while remaining a comedy in the Shakespearean sense". Colin Bertram of the New York Daily News dubbed the film a "great reunion", and was happy with the return of "The 'Oh, my God, they did not just do that!' moments, the nudity, the swearing, the unabashed love of human frailty and downright wackiness". The Chicago Tribune's Jessica Reeves described it as "Witty, effervescent and unexpectedly thoughtful." Michael Rechtshaffen at The Hollywood Reporter praised the performances of the four leading ladies and said the film kept the essence of the series, but resembled a super-sized episode. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times found the film "a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow — and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong — addendum to a show", while The Daily Telegraph's Sukhdev Sandhu panned the film saying "[the ladies] have become frozen, Spice Girls-style types - angsty, neurotic, predatory, princess - rather than individuals who might evolve or surprise us".Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail agreed, adding that he found the blatant product placement to be disconcerting. He gave the film zero stars out of four. Above information cited from Wikipedia---my favorite website other than Google..... |
