Sex and the City: The Movie: Review By Brokaw

Several years ago four young women came into our lives. Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte appeared on our TV screens and showed us a new kind of family - friends. Now they appear on the big screen, a little older and wiser. The long awaited feature film has finally arrived. The women are back and better than before.

The on-again-off-again romance between Carrie and "Big" has reached fruition and as they plan for their small, intimate wedding of about 75 guests, which swells to over 200, the foursome discovers love is, at best, very difficult. Miranda and Steve face an obstacle which threatens the survival of their marriage, and Samantha is discovering what she knew all along. She is not the type of woman to give up her own life for a man, even if it is Smith Jerrod.

The only one who is living her fantasy life is Charlotte, who has a beautiful adopted daughter, a loving husband, and is finally pregnant herself.

As I watched this movie - all two hours twenty two minutes - I found myself jealous of the relationship they have. Not the relationship between Carrie and John (aka Big), or that of Charlotte and Harry, but the relationship between the four women. They have the most solid bond, and their friendship sustains them through all their ups and downs. As Kim Cattall says, it's "about women joining together as the new family ... sticking together through thick and thin."

In the end, these four women start a new chapter in their lives. This one is mature, responsible, and as the credits roll, the audience will find themselves looking forward to the foursome in middle age.

The fashions (Chanel, Manolo, Oscar De la Renta and all the others) are still there, the sex is still there, the women are still as feisty as ever, and New York still holds challenges for them all. While this could have been a little shorter in length, the movie does round out the lives of the four women and closes this next chapter in the saga of Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York, and Miranda Hobbes.