Have you seen this one? It's about four different female political candidates who all share the same pantsuits. Its conceit stretches credulity -- if not the pantsuits -- but there are worse things in life, and in the movies, then watching these mavericks for two hours. Though the pantsuits remain the same size, these characters are allowed to grow their constituencies, and watching female politicians behave like female politicians is way better than watching grown women act like asparagus (we're talking to you, "Sex and the Herbaceous Perennial.")

Good review, Stefania.

You're better at comedy when you're trying to get people to take you seriously.

I loved her in "Joan of Arcadia" (which I miss, especially for its frank portrayal of adolescent issues). I look forward to seeing her in grown-up roles in the future.

Amber Tamblyn .... 25

Alexis Bledel .... 27

America Ferrara .... 24

Blake Lively .... 22

Yep. Gotta love it when teenagers act like teenagers. Or at least when reviewers don't fact check and act like grown women are teenagers acting like teenagers.

Why do I get the feeling that this movie, despite the favorable (albeit nuanced) review is maybe just not quite as good as The Dark Knight?

Sorry, Steph, I'm actually a big fan, and you write some great reviews, but you were way off the mark there. Had to get my licks in.

"Have Pants Will Travel"

Or this is kinda cute:

"Dig My New Bat Suit"

==Yep. Gotta love it when teenagers act like teenagers. Or at least when reviewers don't fact check and act like grown women are teenagers acting like teenagers.==

I think she's talking about the characters.

Let's also offer up some cheers for these young women, who are all successful working actresses, not unemployed party girls, celubutantes and trampy tabloid trash with little talent and a fear of underwear and obscurity, like some the other "famous" young women their age (paging Paris, Lindsay, Britney, Jamie-Lynn...)

I can take my tween daughter to see Sisterhood, and know that she's going to see young women who have some actual talent, and some dignity to go along with it.

(I really liked Sisterhood 1!!! And anything filmed in Greece -- except Mamma Mia of course -- is ok by me! So we're going to see Sisterhood 2 for sure!)

27 is the new adolescence and 40 is the new Mrs. Robinson.

Bledel: 9/16/81

Tamblyn: 5/14/83

Ferrara: 4/18/84

Lively: 8/25/87

Not a teenager in the bunch.

I read the intro to your article. I am a male who found Sex & the City series mindless very soft porn, but my wife is an avid fan. We are both well past 50. I recited the intro dissing of Sex & the City and got an earful.

Her defense is that the series is based on a premise of equal rights to casual sex, which is the general lifestyle of the teenager through early 20s, but now among women more mature. The series, according to my wife, shows that this behavior is unsuccessful in providing satisfaction for the deeper needs of the women, who, for the most part, would prefer a stable, loving relationship.

I guess it is a morality play, you reckon?

I hate to be snarky, but:

Wall-EE: thumbs down

The Dark Knight: thumbs down

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: thumbs up.

As John McEnroe once said, "You cannot be serious!" Wall-EE topped by the second Traveling Pant movie? Not the first one, the SEQUEL.

You are seriously testing my suspension of disbelief.

I've seen both movies now and while I'm a grown woman (28 years old, woohoo!) now with a basic sense of self and what I want out of life I still worry about 19 year old me. After seeing this second pants movie, it occurred to me that had I'd seen Sex and the City as a 19 year old I would have left feeling poor, deflated, and kinda fat. If I saw this Pants movie at that time, I would have been excited about the future, being a woman, and inspired to do really cool things with my life not to mention take fun trips with my girlfriends. My inner 19 year old really appreciates Stephanie's take on this movie.

How old are you Stephanie? Are you married? Have you given up drinking, partying and expressing glee and energy?

I think there's something wrong when the only people permitted to express joy, playfulness and sexuality are teenagers - or women playing teens - while being adult equals being sexless and boring apparently.

Meanwhile, as others point out, isn't there something utterly creepy about grown women playing teenage girls. Also how Stephanie feels free to bring up such analytical points about age and women, but not this one.

Of course in your rush to judgement about older women (older than you, of cuorse), you obviously miss the point.

Sex and The City is about the shoes, the clothes, the I-want-it attitude that we see out here every single day. So the accessories are not after-the-fact as you put it, but are a part of the narrative.

Why do you all your bloggers have to bash something else in order to make a point? Been watching too much college-days Hardball?

but it is practical due to laws regarding underaged actors. Also, you don't have to deal with stage moms and dads. And I'm sorry, the pool of talent of people who've actually studied acting in any meaningful way is larger for the 20-somethings. I used to look at a lot of actor resumes on television and you'd be surprised how many of the folks studied at Yale and Juliard...studied to be able to play some awful teenager on a WB drama, but at least had rudimentary understanding of acting as a craft and not as, I'm mugging for the camera. Which is how child actors in television and some movies are taught to act.

If they look like teenagers then whats the harm in them playing teenagers? It's acting!

Anyhoo...I like the original pants because I love America Ferrara. I mean, that whole thing with her dad...it makes me verklempt. And she's awesome as Ugly Betty.