Sex and the City 2
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 27, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
27
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
15
Negative:
19
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail Pennington
Sex and the City 2 will never be compared to "The Godfather, Part II." But it's everything a fan could want in a sequel. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber
So even if Sex and the City 2 consisted of nothing but a two-hour fashion show, it would draw crowds. But it also has the returning cast members in fine comic form, and it has more cutting-edge humor than the first movie. Read full review
65
NPRMia Mask
You don't have to be a fan of Sex and the City to appreciate the kitsch humor here. Part TV-series sequel, part Hollywood sendup, SATC 2 is all satire. It's hard to miss that this film is making gentle fun of itself, of the franchise's materialism, even of its own cinematic allusions. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Although they've left the city behind, the girls haven't forgotten the sex. They're still as frank as ever, as outrageous as ever, as liberated as ever. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Sex and the City 2 is a champagne cocktail on a runaway train -- fizzy, sparkly, giddy-making, and splashing all over the place. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
I enjoyed these characters more when they were rich, rather than obscenely rich, when their self-involvement and life crises had one foot on planet Earth -- and when they weren't all gussied up like Mae West in "Sextette." Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Frothy as it is, SATC2 is best when it's about the women, not the wardrobe. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A long sit in the shallows, the equivalent of five half-hour episodes strung together. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
The Muslim women in “SATC2” are props in the froth. Come to think of it, so are Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Part of the action occurs in the desert, which inadvertently proves apt, since the oases of enjoyable moments -- and they do exist -- suffer from being spaced too widely in what's otherwise a long, arid trek. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
If “the gals” have to bow out, at least they try to do it in a sprint -- in their Manolo Blahniks. It’s a pity nobody told them you can’t run in heels -- in sand dunes. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria Vizcarrondo
The "Fab Four's" dramadies continue for the audiences who love them. Trouble is the surrounding story and its supposedly fun sojourns are as embarrassing as granny panties. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Yes, this is a great time for escapism at the movies. But there's a point at which escapism throws what we're trying to forget back in our faces. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did Sex and the City become so long and mean so little? Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
The satire is sagging, the irony's atrophied and the funny is flabby. Read full review
40
TimeMary Pols
A movie gaudy enough to make Dancing with the Stars seem dignified. Read full review
40
EmpireWilliam Thomas
This feels bigger and more cinematic than the first film, and sees a progression in the lives of the characters. But many of the jokes are beyond broad, and the Middle Eastern stereotypes are shockingly cack-handed. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Sex and the City 2 isn't a feature film as much as it is consumer porn. The audience is not asked to relate to the characters, or at least what we remember of them, as much as to their shoes, their bags, their apartments, their couture, their stuff. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsAmy Diluna
It's over the top, and over the rainbow. But just like Carrie's worries about the "sparkle" leaving her marriage, this movie is like once-brilliant Champagne, carelessly left out overnight. And gone flat. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
One wrongheaded jaw-dropper follows another. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A dunderheaded comic melodrama with clothes to die for and dialogue to shrink from. It’s downright depressing. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
An insult to the memory of the cleverly written show and its celebration of friendship, it's a slap in the face for the four gal pals (often photographed at unflattering angles) and an affront to Muslims. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The problem lies with the unimaginative story premise and the quip/reverse quip dialogue that just may be better-suited to half-hour television shows than this nearly 2½-hour movie feature. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
The most depressing thing about Sex and the City 2 is that it seems to justify every nasty thing said and written about the series and first feature film. Read full review
30
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Like its predecessor, SATC2--with a script that's basically a sack full of not very funny gag-lines wrapped in strung-together episodic mini-scenes--is not suited to be a movie. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of Sex and the City 2 are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
The transformation of the girls from winsome wisecrackers into whiny bling-obsessed chuckleheads is complete. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
The biggest sin of Sex and the City 2 is its lack of beauty. It's garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe, wafer-thin when it should be whip-smart and sophisticated. Read full review
25
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Hits a new low of idiocy and crassness. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubGenevieve Koski
Sex And The City 2 panders to that audience to the point of self-destruction, squandering whatever goodwill the franchise had left after the first so-so movie by plopping its beloved characters into a series of garish vignettes that throw their shallowness into sharp relief. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It's astounding how a movie this long could accomplish so little. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Twenty minutes in, the movie is already operating at a deficit, and it never recovers. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
But the best, most irrefutable reason why Sex and the City 2 deserves one-half a shining star. It’s worse than Sex and the City 1, and that alone is a remarkable achievement. Read full review
12
PremiereJohn DeVore
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie should be a cautionary tale of perpetual adolescence; her character should be out dating any number of Hollywood’s graying beer bellied frat boys. But no. Instead, we are asked to identify and sympathize with a person who gets everything she wants, but complains anyway. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The ugly smell of unexamined privilege hangs over this film like the smoke from cheap incense. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
Thanks to writer-director Michael Patrick King, I now have a fair idea how it might feel to be stoned to death with scented candles. Read full review
10
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Indeed, this movie's offensive on many levels, but Arabs and Muslims don't get to feel special. It relies on stupid stereotypes because it's a stupid movie that's offensive to virtually everyone. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Real feelings lurk just below the surface--Samantha's terror of growing old, Carrie's fear of eventual tedium in a childless marriage. Yet the surface is where the movie stays, like an old submarine with dead batteries. Read full review
10
SlateDana Stevens
And it's true that this movie's absolute tone-deafness, its complete disconnection from our current economic and geopolitical reality, by moments achieves a perverse Warholian profundity. Read full review
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