The good, the bad, and the girly
Imagine being the person who chooses the trailers to attach to Sex and the City: The Movie. This is a big job—if the Sex and the City franchise is the royalty of women’s entertainment, you’ve got to figure that the trailers running before it are a kind of State of the Chick Flick address. The news here is good and bad. We saw The Accidental Husband and Mamma Mia!, which, if we’re going with the checking-in political theme, are like the vague assurances about health care and education reform—always there, always agreeable, and either a bit of a letdown (in the case of the latter, possibly) or a complete disaster from the start (which would be the former). And then there were the weird coattail-riders, the things nobody had really heard about and probably didn’t vote for, i.e. the new trailers. Like these:
I’ve got to hand it to Meg Ryan: she’s been trying to get this movie made for a long, long time, and she finally got it to the big screen. Whether the remake will be any good or bear any resemblance at all to the 1939 original remains to be seen—all evidence points to a tentative no on both counts, but we’ll reserve judgment—but the concept of an entirely female cast is intriguing. The main question here is probably whether the movie is more of a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 14 or Heathers, Alive Again; it’s hard to say from the preview. Either way, it’s got Eva Mendes, which means The Men might show up even if The Women don’t.
This looks genuinely interesting. Based on the briefly-popular self-help/comedy book of the same name, this is…an unromantic comedy? A celebration of platonism? Or a falsely-advertised romance? Hard to tell. (Kind of. I mean, come on.) Anyway, it’s about time the excellent Ginnifer Goodwin got a leading role, and her supporting cast isn’t exactly creamed chicken livers on toast, either. Will it be as sharp and refreshing as the trailer leads us to believe? I…can’t say, not being a) psychic or b) a studio exec (not that they’d know either. Oh, burn!). But until then, CH is tentatively on board.
What do you think, readers? State of the Chick Flick? Are we recessing, or just in a pre-recession slump? Is there hope?
Sex and the City, Sex and the City movie, chick flicks, trailers, The Women, Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, The Accidental Husband, Mamma Mia!, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ginnifer Goodwin
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