Thanks for making this my most viewed video! Your deep anger at both me, and the quirks of this movie, has moved and delighted me. My newest video is about the incredible strangeness of Barbie's first movie, 'Barbie in the Nutcracker': ruclips.net/video/Okdrq_UfNJc/видео.html So check that out if you're so inclined, and I may yet make a video on 'And Just Like That' 👀
@@mothcub I'm sure I wasn't referring to you. Somebody must have deleted their reply. Anyway, I can't even remember what my reply was about, sorry 🤣 YT just showed it to me now.
@mothclub I couldn't listen to your nonsensical rambling for more than 13 minutes. BTW, Carrie isn't bored of her husband, she wants to keep going out while he wants to stay in more. For someone that works in finance, when the market drops significantly, it impacts everything from your working hours to stress levels, to earnings, loses and a a result - the overall mood. Calling the nanny miss Big boobies or something as equally moronic, as if your guy chose her over you, claiming Charlotte should've been angry at her husband - cretinous. As was that baby voice. Steve said miranda should get another job, not stop being a lawyer, so again your rambling didn't make any sense. When a husband wants his wife to get a job at a company where she's valued instead of disrespected, and cites spending more time with family while looking is nothing to criticise at all. You're not much of a thinking type......
It always felt to me that they made the nanny gay so Charlotte wouldnt have to worry about Harry cheating on her instead of just making Harry reassure her theres nothing to worry about. It always felt like "oh you dont have to worry about your husband cheating on you because the nanny is gay!" rather than 'he can just be an absolute normal human being who can restrain himself and not cheat because he loves and respects his wife.' It has always bothered me
When in reality that sometimes doesn’t even work to discourage guys from perusing a woman 😅 ig it’s too much effort to expect them to write him as a good reassuring husband lmfao geesh
Yes, and it's just nasty to assume 'oh nanny is gay so basically a non person and no threat at all' like come on. The husband should have definitely stopped staring and reassured Charlotte he wasn't interested regardless,
It feels like this whole show has a huge issue with men. The show seems to view them as some evil terrible other half that can never be better so it feels very in line with that
@@singstreetcar5881 I'm queer too and it wasn't that they were different types but rather that there was absolutely no development and the writers just imagined that two gay people who hated each other would get together because they're "the last two standing" when they both live in fucking New York City.
Thank you! When she said that was her favorite part, I was shocked! I absolutely Hate that this movie begins with a horribly contrived 20 minute wedding scene between two characters who can't stand each other but the writers threw them together bc they're both gay 😒 The writers ruined two of the best side characters!
Carrie can have disorganized avoidant and anxious attachment style. She pines for these relationships, but when she has it, she needs space. That's why she couldn't be with Aidan because he was emotionally secure and stable. However, Mr. Big on the other hand has an avoidant attachment style
I noticed Carrie always wants the "other" thing. Big doesnt want marriage, she suddenly seems like she wants marriage. Aiden wants to marry her, she doesnt want to marry him. Alekzandr doesnt want kids, oh MAYBE she wants kids now. Carrie wants someone to "stand still with her", GIRL HES SITTING ON THE COUCH BEING STILL GO DO IT.
@@AtlasBlizzard he was right to get away, Carrie was a psycho. But it's still gotta suck for his wife to have the ghost of Aiden and Carrie's relationship hanging over theirs. I feel for his wife.
That was so out of pocket. She cheated on him twice, with the same man. Twice. Dude really lost his shit the last time with her. Makes no sense for him to say something like that. He knew she was toxic
I read a book about women like those under the veil in the movie, and that seemed accurate at least according to that book. It was written that women dressed up under the veil to impress other woman when they were able to take it off in women only areas. So that at least seems legit. But everything Carrie and them did besides that was massive cringe.
@@Ocylanot for all. Hijab and abaya aren't worn to protect against male gaze only. Many Muslim women don't even take them off in front of other women (unless they're blood relatives). One group of Muslim women doesn't represent the rest. It all depends on the region, circle, culture and their practice of faith.
I sense that old cliche of lower class women being "fleshy", with sensual physicality and naivete, while rich women are allegedly more "disembodied", are refined minds and spirits.
I don't think that's it at all. You're giving them too much credit. It has to do with body insecurity of a mother of two in the face of a hot nanny. My boobs are significantly larger than my mom's and she imposed the same dysmorphia on my with an extra dose of suggested incest as the reason for my rapid development
@@esm82ifyI don’t think they did it consciously but I agree there’s a horrible tone to women in power and status being threatened by a woman who works for them as a help’s body. It’s gross and layers of classism in there.
As a Samantha fan, I hate what this movie did to her character. I liked the first movie, but I refuse to accept the second one as canon. Or And Just Like That. As far as I'm concerned, the story ends after the first movie.
@@mothcub This movie is a huge reason why I am sure Kim Cattrell refused that horrific series - THAT and the plot lines they wanted to make Samatha do.
I’d only ever seen the first half of this & finding out that the plot line of “Charlotte is worried her husband will have an affair with the nanny he is visibly attracted to” is resolved by the realization that the nanny is gay is actually hilarious
I hated they made her gay just so Charlotte wouldn't have to worry about it instead of just making Harry reassure his wife there's nothing to worry about.🙄
When I watched sex in the city as an adult. I realized that most of the women on the show are incredibly toxic, especially carry. And that samantha really was the best friendto all of them and constantly got crapped on. She was the most open minded and honest with the exception of that one episode. The movies really made me dislike Carrie and big
I'm not familiar with the series but thinking about it. Cuz I also did like Samantha a lot and didn't really like Carrie. Is it better than the movies? And which episode do you mean?
@@LittleBluebirdFireheartI watched the show as an adult for the first time and got my friend to watch it. We were both shocked by how toxic Carrie could be hahahaha
As someone who had exclusively interacted with this franchise by listening to two New Zealand comedians talk about watching this movie 52 times, once a week for a year and then making a weekly podcast about it as they tracked there decent into madness... It was interesting to actually see parts of the movie. The podcast is called The Worst Idea of All Time, and Id recommend it.
My first season of twioat was their sex and the city 2 season, and I am at last listening to the season that started it all now that the boys are re-releasing the first season for the show's 10-year anniversary
Thanks for sharing this info. I immediately checked out the podcast. They kick it all off by rambling about itchy a$$holes. And that seems quite fitting. 😂
Poor Kim Catrell. This is where Samantha was character assassinated. It is beyond cringe. She lost her dignity here. It was appalling what she was made to go through in this movie. Apparently, she objected and was threatened with lawsuits. It led to her fallout with Sarah Jessica Parker who she said was instrumental in the utter wreckage of the second entry's direction into the ditch and is a total vacuous fake.
Right?! Samantha was always so confident and they turned her into this cosmetic procedure-obsessed, anti-aging obsessed middle aged woman. Ugh no wonder Kim Cattrall didn’t want to do this garish sequel Shoulda stopped at the first sex and the city movie 100%
The plot for the 3rd movie that Kim refused starred a 14 year old Brady sending her dickpics and seducing her. Thank you Kim for preserving Samantha's legacy.
Agreed 1000%. I feel like the change in Samantha’s character was an attack on Kim Catrell. The Samantha from the show was brimming with confidence, and was super nonjudgmental and understanding of everyone (remember when she had cancer and befriended that nun at the chemo clinic?) I feel like the way she acted in this second movie was a far cry away from her dignified and classy character.
Carrie is not supposed to be likeable. She’s the first anti-hero female role portrayed in a tv series. She makes mistakes and spends her money on expensive shoes. But in the 1990s that was groundbreaking for the portrayal of a female character. That’s why the show was so popular.
I remember my mom complaining about the show’s finale and the movies because she didn’t like that Carrie ended up with Big. Even non-nerdy moms have their NOTPs 😂
@@Crvenaaafulshe was born spoiled and rich. She acts spoiled and rich the entire run of the show/movies. I think the "reality" is that she never understands how difficult anything is because of being so sheltered. Her becoming a mom thrust her into reality
Semblance of reality? Charlotte? She's characterised as a Connecticut naive blue-blood WASP Princess who starts out very obsessed with finding and wanting a knight in shining armour to sweep her off her feet and with little awareness of her own priviledges and advantages that her upbringing gives to her.
@natalyafisher2571 some people are privileged and sheltered. Some people have very misguided ideas about love and what they're supposed to want. There is nothing unrealistic about her. "realistic" and "relatable to the average person" are two different things
Im bummed that this video didnt include that guy working in the hotel for little to no money who only got to see his wife once a year because they didnt have enough money. And when Carrie asked him if it was hard he was just like -naaahh love conquers all ig…
Yeah, that was incredibly gross. I didn't really get why it bothered me so much, but that hotel employed slave labor. It's ok, though, because Carrie left him a big tip.
it is a fact. There are plenty of married men from South Asia who leave their families behind and work in the middle east straight for almost a year or two before they can afford a break to go home.
The only thing I really don't believe is that Charlotte would have hired someone from Ireland instead of someone who is in that same predicament. Most often the nannies for those types are foreign wmen from the Philippines, African countries Latin America, etc, who leave their families in their respective countries so they can raise the children of their wealthy employers while sending money back home becausethey can pay them much less. Which would truly corroborate the flippant way Carrie treats the hotel "employee."
NGL, the bright spot in this dark, DARK movie is Miranda for me. She's such a fun cinnamon roll the entire movie, and the one person who seems to respect the culture of Abu Dhabi. Samantha is repeatedly humiliated via the scenarios & the dialogue Kim Cattrall is given, and I hate it.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 Oh my god, me too! I was so so mad about what they did to her. Yes, Sam loves Sex, but she's also a skilled businesswoman who would never EVER behave like that, under no circumstances. The hate for Cattrall really shone through in that movie.
The movie bothered me because Samantha is a smart PR business woman who would no doubt be smart enough to know of the customs there - wardrobe, behavior in public. The writers of this crap denigrated her.
This is such a good point - just because Samantha is the “horny one” does not mean she wouldn’t be savvy or intelligent enough to understand cultural differences and tailor herself accordingly since she sells images to various audiences, especially as wealthy white women in lavish settings who have less rigid expectations of dress and behavior anyway. The problem is that they turned her into a caricature in service of some weird shallow attempt at feminism that ironically degrades her and does the women of Abu Dhabi even worse.
kim catrall said samantha's humiliating storylines was the reason she did not want to make another sequel (among other things behind the cameras ofc) which is totally understandable, they ruined the most complex and intriguing character on the show
Carrie always exploits her friends’ lives for her column rather than use the journalistic confessional format to embarrass herself for her art/paycheck. She’s also very judgemental of Samantha, who is the one having all of the sex for her to write about
I agree wholeheartedly that the conversation between Miranda and Charlotte is by far the best / only worthwhile scene of the movie. It's really heartwarming and relatable to see them being real and honest about how hard being a mother actually is.
Would just like to offer my very irish experience of seeing this movie in a very small town in countryside ireland and when the irish tune played and the "irish" woman was running towards the camera, 2 women behind me groaned and said "For fook saaake" and i laughed so hard it gave me a headache and i couldn't remember the rest of the movie until i wayched this video :)
Fun fact - A year ago I was stuck in a rural town for 3 months with very limited internet access and this movie was somehow the only one downloaded on my phone. It was a sad time.
This is existentially frightening, I went to reassure myself I still had 18 hours of mystery science theater available at any time no matter what. Safe
@@yesterdayseyesnot at all. By definition (like mentioned in the video) if you have an arrangement it’s not cheating. Just because it’s not your preferred lifestyle doesn’t mean that open relationships or polyamory don’t work for anyone
@@its-beady-eyes5120 Surprisingly enough, Carrie is not an idiot. She's just shit, she's a mess and she knows it. When you are such a mess, it's quite wise to be with people who also put an effort on keeping the distance (because they know they are shit too). So, two people "secretly" agree to keep a big enough distance to hide or at least blur down the mess. Aiden was too healthy and too ready for a close relationship. So, Carrie reasonably felt threatened as she knew she wasn't strong enough to hold the wall alone and he would eventually come close enough to see how shit she is.
When I was in my 20’s living in NYC SATC was a fun kind of fantasy to watch. Now in my 40’s, grown up, it’s an absolute mess of a nightmare. Carrie is the absolute worst.
@@mothcub 🤣 objectification much, that 'threat' is a whole living, breathing thinking and feeling person too, it was childish to make her gay simply to bring a happy resolution.
To be honest anything after around season 4 is weirdly out of character, the movies only leaned harder towards the campy side and they got richers and glossier and less relatable.
I'm sorry but I am a firm believer Charlotte pressured Miranda to keep her baby and be with Steve by projecting her wishes on her. Every movie Miranda says she regrets her life but then ppl are shocked by the character assassination in "Just like that". That is my gripe with Charlotte
The movie came out after the 2008 financial crash so its extravagant displays of 1% consumerism were also in very poor taste. Michael Patrick King, inexplicably promoted to showrunner (probably because he flattered SJP and not because of his life experience as a single woman) has said he wanted to cheer up the audience, but he is bad at his job and lying. It’s that all the luxury brands paying to be in the movie didn’t want to be featured alongside realistic financial struggles, but rather displayed against a background of grotesque opulence. Really emblematic how this show about sex became a show about non-essential lifestyle spending, in the grand tradition of US culture converting basic human needs and desires into overpriced consumer goods. Sad and pathetic loss of a once groundbreaking project.
Called it. The movie-like the franchise as a whole-has always been a showcase for paid product placements. Which meant it could only glorify conspicuous consumption-never seriously critique it, or even satirize it with any but the most gentle humor.
This is also why the show and series as a whole became a time capsule. It captured an era of prosperity and youthful exuberance, chasing dreams in a place that no longer exists. While providing social commentary and exploring various social issues in a unique way, featuring countless famous and upcoming actors/actresses.
But I mean even in a long gone era of prosperity WHO the everlasting freck could ever have been able to afford these gigantic apartments or 500 dollar shoes every Tuesday or any of this wealth?! This was always a vehicle for consumerism under the guise of sexual liberation imo 🤷🏼♀️
@@GHC3 I wouldn't say the 2000s was an "era of prosperity". Even before the 2007 recession, the cost of living was already high and people were suffering financially compared to the 80s or 90s.
Can we also say, that the whole running through the streets of Abu Dhabi was because we didn’t want to fly back in ‘coach’. Like they weren’t trying to flee a Gulag. Just didn’t want to fly economy.
I can somewhat understand them, think abt it from this perspective they have to be on the flight for over 7 hours I would at least wanna be in decent seats too, if you were going to buy first class or any upgrades like that a long flight is the only time it’s worth it
I feel like there's some kind of next level ennui I don't understand that comes with being able to afford two New York apartments... surely that's somehow part of why the idea of staying home for an evening instead of endlessly attending dinners at restaurants called "Le Sink" is so terrifying to her, right? She needs the impending notion that she's about to be approached by a server and offered a menu, lest the thoughts about her life begin to creep in.
The only reason why she was able to afford her first apartment is because it was rent controlled. Then, when the building went co-op, Aiden came in to save the day by buying it for her. Then, after she cheated on him with Big, lying to all her friends about it, making his wife faceplant at the base of a stairwell busting her face, and manipulating Charlotte who got her "nice" apartment from her own divorce settlement (it's not like she and Trey didn't try to make things work) as well as Charlotte's inability to find a good job because she was over qualified (docents are supposed to be retired people who love art) by making her sell her engagement ring because Aiden was suing her for money lost. I think my point in that rambling was: Carrie paid a cheap rent since the 1980s, then never had to make any sacrifices to buy it.
She's addicted to drama, she had no problem staying in and eating a home cooked dinner when she was agonizing about where her relationship with Big was going
Lol Carrie did not manipulate Charlotte into doing anything. She rightfully pointed out that she was being rude when she was talking about her financial woes and Charlotte interrupted her. She even said that even if Charlotte had offered the money, she wouldn't have accepted. Because it was the principle. @@ggsilik
I felt bad for Charlotta already when she, by the initiative of her husband, had to give up her Christian faith, which was a part of her personality, just in order to get the chance to be with him, because he admitted, that he would only marry a Jewish woman. And after she did it - for his sake! - and started learning, how to be a proper Jewish wife, - he not only did not appreciate her sacrifice, but left her! If that was not a huge red flag, then what was it?! Dear ladies, - never, - and I mean NEVER! - sacrifice anything for a man. Men just don't appreciate it. If a man wants you to sacrifice your faith, or dignity, or career, - he does not love you. And men, who don't love - they cheat. Period.
>>Dear ladies, - never, - and I mean NEVER! - sacrifice anything for a man. Men just don't appreciate it. If a man wants you to sacrifice your faith, or dignity, or career, - he does not love you.
That always rubbed me the wrong way. He was her divorce layer for her first marriage, told her how much he adored her, then pulled a trap card and went, 'sorry, I can only marry you if you're Jewish like me'. Like, first of all, that's BS (even back in the 90s Fran Drescher's character married a Christian man), but also like, that should've been Charlotte's cue to run.
Other than that Christmas tree, She didn’t express being a Christian, and had lots os sex partners (“up the butt girl” etc.). Her values were more traditional than the others, but let’s not forget that. Is it in fact acceptable for a woman with a culturally religious background but no faith to convert?
I think Carrie was scared she would lose her marriage by being bored on it, she idolizes and seems to have deep fears in terms of being "conventional", she tried too hard to be special, and it seems she never learns, she never did.
Carrie cannot write. I’m sorry even watching the first 4 seasons(I can’t get past it, I’ve tried twice). Her writing is so superficial and most of the time the point goes over her head😂😂 this was fun to watch
They didn't finance it, in fact they refused to give permission to film the movie in Abu Dhabi because they thought it was offensive to the culture. The movie was instead shot in Morocco
Literally everything they depicted about the middle East was incredibly offensive. No way the UAE would ever fund it. No, in reality, upper class liberal white women simply love to fetishize and degrade "exotic" cultures.
I hate how they turned Aiden into a douche bag. He knows his wife is insecure about Carrie and asks her out to dinner and cheated. SMH he was supposed to be the good guy
@@esm82ifyThe average European family can't afford to go to Abu Dhabi. So they book the next best thing - all inclusive vacation in egypt / tunisia etc. Abu Dhabi in Sex and the City 2 does not have any particular qualities - it's all the same thing - "the new middle east". You go to a market, ride camels, have a hotel where natives do your bidding. This movie exist so that this profile of customer can say: "omg i'm just like the sex and the city girls
I've seen a few comments like this and it's like, ok sure, but it's not really cooking that gets her dirty. I fully believe Charlotte would have the ability to remain clean and pristine while cooking tbh.
When Liza started singing "Single Ladies" I became rage-filled. I got the worst case of secondhand cringe in my life. It was visceral, it was feral and it primed me for the rest of the movie. Oh, yeah! And I remember the audience in the theater cheering at the Charlotta and Miranda at the bar scene. It was literally the only relatable thing in the movie! I felt so bad for all of us, lmao.
SATC II is an empty, capitalist nightmare. There's literally nothing but pointless opulence. Even fashion is lacking. Before it was personal, interesting and innovative. The fashion department mixed street fashion with designer pieces. It was bold, unique and eye-catching. SATC II is an endless ad spot with poor writing, bad characters and a boring story. It was when all characters underwent the process of flanderization, and this was the moment when they stripped Miranda of her pride, and made her a cringy, socially inept and silly person. Miranda was smart, was clever and learned quickly but in SATC II she was unable to pronounce words she asked people to teach her. This deafness has been borrowed during the writers' panel for the TV reboot. SATC was never an intellectual feast with minimum of luxury but the second movie is just a travesty.
No depth. It should be an embarrassment but people continue to celebrate this show. There's a vlog about how SATC has destroyed women's relationship with money. Well worth a look.
I lived in the ME for 10 years. Believe me, at least for the upper classes, that taking off the burka to reveal louis vuitton scene was the only part that struck me as real.
It was most definitely Carrie's whiniest movie. She finally got the guy and now she whined throughout the whole movie about how 'boring' they were becoming. It actually became a fear of hers turning into a boring old couple even though theres literally nothing wrong with that. She pushed Big into going to a movie premier with her even though he was exhausted then got annoyed with what he did whilst there. Then goes to Abu Dhabi and argues about how seeing Aiden 'means something'. She was absolutely insufferable. The definition of a spoilt girl - never satisfied.
Which it didn’t make sense for her to be into Aiden again if she was afraid of being in a boring relationship if he would want to just chill in a cabin. It would have at least made sense if they would have switched it and had Carrie wanting them to have more of a down to earth relationship and Big wanting to keep the lavish lifestyle.
23:59 i mostly can’t stand charlotte but I love that charlotte has no advice after Carrie went after her for saying it was a bad idea. It’s really too much to expect her to be supportive and “I told you so” would have been a disaster so “I don’t know I’m drunk” is pretty much her best play.
Idk, i love how this is a whole nothing movie, pure mind-unplugging entertainment, 2010 was the year of “sequels about nothing” along Grown Ups 2 and Eclipse
I always heard comments from people comparing themselves to the characters on the show, like " i'm a miranda" or "i'm a Carrie". Just recently watched all seasons and the movies at the age of 32 and I couldn't relate to any of them.
@@maddieb.4282 There was some funny moments which was still entertaining so I continued watching. I don't always feel the need to see myself in a character, take the show It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia for example. The characters in that are mental but it's just fun the watch all the chaos.
I've never watched the SATC movies because everything I hear about them just veers into character/relationship assassination territory. Like the idea that Harry or Steve would ever cheat in the show itself is so baffling I can't fathom it, they were both so aggressively Wife Guys™ before we had that terminology 😂 good to know Carrie is consistently terrible though??
As someone who watched the show it would’ve made wayyyyyyyyy more sense for Miranda to cheat on Steve because she always felt above him. But I guess they wanted to make women feel normal for taking back a cheating husband. 😑😑😑
@@belun6462in Miranda’s defense, she was above him tho. Let us not forget that the man couldn’t be bothered to wipe his own ass and Miranda inexplicably washed the skid marks out of his underwear. It’s a no from me
@@slimjen1000 It scared her bc she felt she didn’t deserve Robert. She even said she didn’t know what he saw in her so she sabotaged it by choosing Steve.
I need to circle back to the INSANE notion that the New Yorker, weekly magazine beloved by intellectual snobs everywhere, would EVER deign to review a book written by a former sex columnist for, basically, the New York Post, titled, "I do, Do I?" No. Absolutely not.
I think it's interesting to think that the movie's bad humanization of the women in Abu Dhabi makes a bit more sense when looking at this movie at the time it was released. Part of the Sex and the City series was made post 9/11 when there was a lot of racism and discrimination against Middle Eastern people. Patriotism and islamophobia seeped its way into every corner of American media. So the only way for these white, probably WASP-y writers to humanize these women is to do a very distasteful "they're just like us" scene. "These women actually LOVE America!! They HATE their own culture and WORSHIP ours!!" It's gross, it's icky, and it perfectly encapsulates how many American writers tried to not be racist. By instead being nationalist.
You're insane. The only genuine part of the film is to display how actual women and men live in these societies. The man separated from his wife serving Carrie, the women not allowed to wear what they want. I guess the insanity for the women in Afganistan today must have escaped your brain.
is it just me or the whole encounter with Aidan in the market is a big cringefest? first of all the bad acting and the worse jokes🤦And then hunky Aidan acting like Carrie in her worst, less becoming outfit and hairdo ever is the most beautiful creature he's ever seen?? 🤦🤦not to mention her still talking in a baby voice well into her forties thinking it's cute?? Oh and another thing that always bothers me when I watch these sketches: why is Carrie always so full of contempt for Charlotte that she doesn't let an opportunity pass by to spit out cruel unkind words at her? what's with that?? If someone talked to me like that they wouldn't see me again!
The Charlotte and Miranda bonding scene is the only thing about this movie I like, and Miranda's overall happy streak. I was definitely not a fan of the second movie overall for so many reasons.
@@xbjrrtc Alice Eve’s accent, her character’s name (Erin/Eireann means *Ireland* in Gaelic), the jiggy music that is her *leitmotif* … Does the director have an anti-Irish bias?
Carrie was an exceptionally insufferable person in the original series and she naturally matured into a horrible woman, that was actually quite consistent of the movie.
Lmao not her spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an apartment as big as two houses only for her to never want to be home. Especally after EVERYTHING that happend in the first movie????? The two of them looking for a place to live was a giant plot line and now she just abandons all of this? I feel like C has FOMO and is also afraid to actually spent time with her husband. As long as everything is new and shiny and they are always on the move, C is kind of happy. But the moment C and Big actually have to sit together and just be with each other I think she realizes that they are not compatible at all. She doesnt want to face that since she spent so much time hunting him down.
At the exact moment you said Carrie has bad taste, I was thinking to myself "Awesome, the dress I'm wearing tonight for dinner looks just like Carrie's but in red! I'm a style icon!" 🥴
@@glittery_cucumber it's okay to have different styles and different tastes. carrie's was always "out there" for some people. personally i'm a big sweatpants and a hoodie gal, so.... you enjoy your dress.
The white Halston dress she wore early in the movie was great. Everything else was crap, including her dark, fussy, ugly apartment she shares with big. Miranda was the best dressed in the movie for once.
I saw this movie in theatres having not seen the show or the previous movie at the time. it was like being hit in the head with a brick. thank u for helping me heal
I didn't get why Miranda was the prude police (Abu Dhabi expert) when charlotte spent 6 seasons being just that, and we know how much she likes to study and hates being inappropriate. I also didn't like that Miranda only ever told Samantha to cover up but Carrie is almost tits out in the desert and she said nothing to her. As an Arab obviously a lot of things bothered me about how they showed Arab women (especially that woman eating a fry was somehow like a zoo animal. But definitely top tier insane in my opinion is Aidan being so happy to see and be with Carrie like....really?????
Lol for Carrie raging about Big’s tv. Do you remember her relationship with that Russian artist? In the end of the series. It was a blatant proof for how uninteresting she was. Claiming to be a writer, no interest or ability to talk about poetry, art, any conversation apart from flirting. That was sad. Even with that fashionista thing, the series was showing her as simply shopaholic and not someone as involved in history of fashion or any philosophy to it, like i would think about art History, for example. She failed with the column in Vogue, for god’s sake! That was soooo sad…
oh my god my jaw dropped at the local women revealing themselves to be fashionistas like the SATC crew followed by a burka escape. HOW does stuff like this get written and greenlit without ANYONE seeing how distasteful it is lmaoo just absolute insane television for a series that originally started as social commentary.
1. I took a class with a nurse who used to regularly travel from Saudi Arabia to France (I know, fancy) and she said that they used to announce when they left Saudi airspace they would announce it and everyone wearing head coverings would start removing them - and many of them revealed them to cocktail dresses. It likely would have been around the 1970s, so that also tracks with how people used to dress for travel (it used to be a bit more formal to travel). 2. Once a woman at my gym wore a burqini! I was rather surprised, I live in suburbia, but I’m curious not rude, so I glanced at her occasionally… and I couldn’t help but be filled with the feeling that it seemed SO COMFORTABLE? She was wrangling a toddler, getting in and out of the water… that’s kind of a lot of movement for a garment, and it looked to be moving seamlessly with her, I did not see her having to readjust. It was, in fairness, like a brand name (I think it may have even been Nike?) burqini, so I’m sure you could get ones that are worse, but this looked like actual swimwear. And I’ve found out since that there are people with certain sensory issues and disorders who benefit from head coverings? I’m not sure I’m that person, but… well, it would probably be useful to both Muslims AND people with these specific medical problems if we stopped having a huge stick up our butts about head coverings…
My family burns very easily and my dad keeps getting skin cancers removed so my sister and I have been wearing versions of burkinis for well over a decade(we have to cover our faces more than women who wear them for religious reasons). They make some really good ones but I have been having terrible allergic reactions to random things outside so I haven’t needed to wear one for a long time.
Middle eastern girls wore black yoga pants and long sleeve black shirts at the indoor water park I went to with family up north. Held a lot of water getting in and out for pools but no one had any issues.
you forgot about how Carrie talked to one of the servant guys. and how she left him cash so that he's able to see his wife sooner, even though they were rushing out of the hotel.
Thanks for making this my most viewed video! Your deep anger at both me, and the quirks of this movie, has moved and delighted me.
My newest video is about the incredible strangeness of Barbie's first movie, 'Barbie in the Nutcracker': ruclips.net/video/Okdrq_UfNJc/видео.html
So check that out if you're so inclined, and I may yet make a video on 'And Just Like That' 👀
This outfit is stinky!! omg, YOUR opinion!
@rose_yts my opinion? In my own video? Damn, that's crazy
@@mothcub I'm sure I wasn't referring to you. Somebody must have deleted their reply. Anyway, I can't even remember what my reply was about, sorry 🤣 YT just showed it to me now.
@@mothcub
The whiny baby voices were really annoying
@mothclub
I couldn't listen to your nonsensical rambling for more than 13 minutes.
BTW, Carrie isn't bored of her husband, she wants to keep going out while he wants to stay in more.
For someone that works in finance, when the market drops significantly, it impacts everything from your working hours to stress levels, to earnings, loses and a a result - the overall mood.
Calling the nanny miss Big boobies or something as equally moronic, as if your guy chose her over you, claiming Charlotte should've been angry at her husband - cretinous. As was that baby voice.
Steve said miranda should get another job, not stop being a lawyer, so again your rambling didn't make any sense. When a husband wants his wife to get a job at a company where she's valued instead of disrespected, and cites spending more time with family while looking is nothing to criticise at all.
You're not much of a thinking type......
It always felt to me that they made the nanny gay so Charlotte wouldnt have to worry about Harry cheating on her instead of just making Harry reassure her theres nothing to worry about. It always felt like "oh you dont have to worry about your husband cheating on you because the nanny is gay!" rather than 'he can just be an absolute normal human being who can restrain himself and not cheat because he loves and respects his wife.' It has always bothered me
When in reality that sometimes doesn’t even work to discourage guys from perusing a woman 😅 ig it’s too much effort to expect them to write him as a good reassuring husband lmfao geesh
Yes, and it's just nasty to assume 'oh nanny is gay so basically a non person and no threat at all' like come on. The husband should have definitely stopped staring and reassured Charlotte he wasn't interested regardless,
Oh damn, so true.
Yeah they do that in movies a lot.
It feels like this whole show has a huge issue with men. The show seems to view them as some evil terrible other half that can never be better so it feels very in line with that
The writers forcing Anthony and Stanford together when they literally couldn't stand each other throughout the entire series was so lazy
I'm gay and those 2 type of gays with never get together
@@singstreetcar5881Right...because all people are the same and have to fit into a bubble 😊
Yes, HATED IT!!
@@singstreetcar5881 I'm queer too and it wasn't that they were different types but rather that there was absolutely no development and the writers just imagined that two gay people who hated each other would get together because they're "the last two standing" when they both live in fucking New York City.
Thank you! When she said that was her favorite part, I was shocked!
I absolutely Hate that this movie begins with a horribly contrived 20 minute wedding scene between two characters who can't stand each other but the writers threw them together bc they're both gay 😒
The writers ruined two of the best side characters!
Its like she spent so much time chasing and obsessing over Mr Big, now she has him she doesn't want him.
That's so Carrie. She was all about the chase. She did the same thing with Aidan -- both times.
I was very similar to Carrie that way in my 20s. I did the same thing, learned the hard way, and then finally grew up. Lol
My thoughts exactly Big could be happy with someone else.
She likes the drama
Carrie can have disorganized avoidant and anxious attachment style. She pines for these relationships, but when she has it, she needs space. That's why she couldn't be with Aidan because he was emotionally secure and stable. However, Mr. Big on the other hand has an avoidant attachment style
Carrie marries tired, old man then gets mad when he acts like a tired, old man.
Exactly 😂
Like Don Draper's third wife.
How is he old... he's not
@@lxtatar7773Hollywood old
Your comment has literally made me LOL, it's so true
I noticed Carrie always wants the "other" thing. Big doesnt want marriage, she suddenly seems like she wants marriage. Aiden wants to marry her, she doesnt want to marry him. Alekzandr doesnt want kids, oh MAYBE she wants kids now. Carrie wants someone to "stand still with her", GIRL HES SITTING ON THE COUCH BEING STILL GO DO IT.
Carrie has constant FOMO.
Aiden letting us know he let HIS WIFE AND MOTHER OF HIS KIDS know that Carrie was "the one that got away" 🤮🤮🤮
Yeah, like what? HE was the one that got away, not her.
@@AtlasBlizzard he was right to get away, Carrie was a psycho. But it's still gotta suck for his wife to have the ghost of Aiden and Carrie's relationship hanging over theirs. I feel for his wife.
Shows that Aiden wasn’t this perfect saint everyone paints him out to be. He’s just like Carrie just more covert
That was so out of pocket. She cheated on him twice, with the same man. Twice. Dude really lost his shit the last time with her. Makes no sense for him to say something like that. He knew she was toxic
so gross
I always enjoyed how the movie seems to suggest that all women are connected through rampant consumerism.
I read a book about women like those under the veil in the movie, and that seemed accurate at least according to that book. It was written that women dressed up under the veil to impress other woman when they were able to take it off in women only areas. So that at least seems legit. But everything Carrie and them did besides that was massive cringe.
This film IS white imperialist feminism and all that is wrong with it. It should be studied.
Or the non-existent "strength" of international religions & ideologies as if they're ALL compatible.
@@Ocylanot for all. Hijab and abaya aren't worn to protect against male gaze only. Many Muslim women don't even take them off in front of other women (unless they're blood relatives). One group of Muslim women doesn't represent the rest. It all depends on the region, circle, culture and their practice of faith.
Thats because thats the truth.
Carrie acted more upset when Big left her at the alter than when he literally died in her arms 😂
lmao
omg that is so true through
It was always about her and what she wants so that's no surprise
Spoilers, sweetie…
Agree! I kept waiting for her to have an ugly cry broken sobbing moment about the sudden death of the love of her life, but it never happened
I hated the nanny storyline. Also as a woman with a large chest all that bouncing around hurt me haha like physically.
I sense that old cliche of lower class women being "fleshy", with sensual physicality and naivete, while rich women are allegedly more "disembodied", are refined minds and spirits.
I don't think that's it at all. You're giving them too much credit. It has to do with body insecurity of a mother of two in the face of a hot nanny.
My boobs are significantly larger than my mom's and she imposed the same dysmorphia on my with an extra dose of suggested incest as the reason for my rapid development
@@esm82ifyI don’t think they did it consciously but I agree there’s a horrible tone to women in power and status being threatened by a woman who works for them as a help’s body. It’s gross and layers of classism in there.
@@esm82ifyI hope you know what decency is.
If you have a big chest you ain't bopping around without proper support, or at all, for that matter. Men writing for women is what this stinks of.
As a Samantha fan, I hate what this movie did to her character. I liked the first movie, but I refuse to accept the second one as canon. Or And Just Like That. As far as I'm concerned, the story ends after the first movie.
I haven't seen the second season of 'And Just Like That' and at this point I'm too afraid lol
same
I never could understand how someone with her job would run around being a clueless idiot in another country.
@@mothcub This movie is a huge reason why I am sure Kim Cattrell refused that horrific series - THAT and the plot lines they wanted to make Samatha do.
I couldn’t finish watching And Just Like That. What a waste of film!
I’d only ever seen the first half of this & finding out that the plot line of “Charlotte is worried her husband will have an affair with the nanny he is visibly attracted to” is resolved by the realization that the nanny is gay is actually hilarious
I for one am rooting for the Irish nanny and her nanny girlfriend
Well she actually said her fear is that him sleeping with her will make the nanny leave, and she wants the nanny to stay most of all lol
Not only is it a silly plot point, but it was likely taken from a Friends episode from the 90's.
@@christianandjesse7370 lmao now that's a real fear
I hated they made her gay just so Charlotte wouldn't have to worry about it instead of just making Harry reassure his wife there's nothing to worry about.🙄
Nobody will ever convince me Big didn’t immediately cheat after Carrie told him. Which is why he was super chill when she got back. 😂
The nanny is bi and he cheated with her 😂
@@purpurina5663 And her girlfriend.
You know it.
they both cheat on their partner before. and Big just want some chill life less drama since he is not 30/40s anymore.
He really was freaking chill.
Growing up is realising that Carrie Bradshaw is truly an insufferable and toxic character
actually growing up is realizing carrie is a great character because of how imperfect she is (much like how real people are)
@@cybramirnah, the way she treated Aidan was unforgivable.
You must live between horrible women
You’re no prize
Yup and very annoying 😂😂
When I watched sex in the city as an adult. I realized that most of the women on the show are incredibly toxic, especially carry. And that samantha really was the best friendto all of them and constantly got crapped on. She was the most open minded and honest with the exception of that one episode. The movies really made me dislike Carrie and big
I'm not familiar with the series but thinking about it. Cuz I also did like Samantha a lot and didn't really like Carrie. Is it better than the movies? And which episode do you mean?
Ah, do you mean the transphobia episode?
PREACH!
There's also the weird one when she dates a Black man and the script loses its mind @@quite_contrary_9956
@@LittleBluebirdFireheartI watched the show as an adult for the first time and got my friend to watch it. We were both shocked by how toxic Carrie could be hahahaha
carrie hauls ass to avoid flying in coach but wont call
911 when big had a heart attack
😂she saw an out, she took it
And rode a train to L.A. bc she’s afraid to fly
She flew home first class with Samantha ,so I’m guessing that cured her fear of flying.
Well he was a boring husband according to this movie, and he was a mistake all along according to the new series... lol
My headcanon : She wanted big dead at that moment, for everything he put him through. The only smart thing she did .🫣
the irish-esque music they play whenever the nanny is on screen is crazy work 😭💀
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They do the same thing with gabby on desperate housewives
As someone who had exclusively interacted with this franchise by listening to two New Zealand comedians talk about watching this movie 52 times, once a week for a year and then making a weekly podcast about it as they tracked there decent into madness... It was interesting to actually see parts of the movie.
The podcast is called The Worst Idea of All Time, and Id recommend it.
Sounds beautiful, thank you
Thanks for the recommendation. It sounds fun.
My first season of twioat was their sex and the city 2 season, and I am at last listening to the season that started it all now that the boys are re-releasing the first season for the show's 10-year anniversary
It was pretty jarring seeing what Brady the Rat King actually looks like
Thanks for sharing this info. I immediately checked out the podcast. They kick it all off by rambling about itchy a$$holes. And that seems quite fitting. 😂
Poor Kim Catrell. This is where Samantha was character assassinated. It is beyond cringe. She lost her dignity here. It was appalling what she was made to go through in this movie. Apparently, she objected and was threatened with lawsuits. It led to her fallout with Sarah Jessica Parker who she said was instrumental in the utter wreckage of the second entry's direction into the ditch and is a total vacuous fake.
Right?! Samantha was always so confident and they turned her into this cosmetic procedure-obsessed, anti-aging obsessed middle aged woman. Ugh no wonder Kim Cattrall didn’t want to do this garish sequel
Shoulda stopped at the first sex and the city movie 100%
The plot for the 3rd movie that Kim refused starred a 14 year old Brady sending her dickpics and seducing her. Thank you Kim for preserving Samantha's legacy.
kim deserved better
Agreed 1000%. I feel like the change in Samantha’s character was an attack on Kim Catrell. The Samantha from the show was brimming with confidence, and was super nonjudgmental and understanding of everyone (remember when she had cancer and befriended that nun at the chemo clinic?) I feel like the way she acted in this second movie was a far cry away from her dignified and classy character.
Carrie really is just one of the most insufferable fictional characters ever put to screen, isn’t she?
No, that's Ted Mosby.
@@keepingitkianaturalthey’re BOTH annoying tbh
Together with Lorelai from Gilmore Girls
Carrie is not supposed to be likeable. She’s the first anti-hero female role portrayed in a tv series. She makes mistakes and spends her money on expensive shoes. But in the 1990s that was groundbreaking for the portrayal of a female character. That’s why the show was so popular.
@@evafinkemeier4111 this comment section is populated by my kinda ppl...
I remember my mom complaining about the show’s finale and the movies because she didn’t like that Carrie ended up with Big.
Even non-nerdy moms have their NOTPs 😂
Your mom is correct, we in the anti-Big leagues salute her 🫡
No way a man mr big would date an old women like Carrie he would be going after younger more fertile women not the one that has an egg left
@Mikhail210 ironic that incels clearly watch Sex and the City, judging by this comment.
@@VanityDivined had more women then mr big ever did or will...nice try
@@Mikhail210ok 😂
Honestly I have always thought Charlotte and Miranda are the best characters because they at least live in some semblance of reality.
Char? In reality? 😂
@@Crvenaaafulshe was born spoiled and rich. She acts spoiled and rich the entire run of the show/movies.
I think the "reality" is that she never understands how difficult anything is because of being so sheltered. Her becoming a mom thrust her into reality
Semblance of reality? Charlotte? She's characterised as a Connecticut naive blue-blood WASP Princess who starts out very obsessed with finding and wanting a knight in shining armour to sweep her off her feet and with little awareness of her own priviledges and advantages that her upbringing gives to her.
@natalyafisher2571 some people are privileged and sheltered. Some people have very misguided ideas about love and what they're supposed to want. There is nothing unrealistic about her.
"realistic" and "relatable to the average person" are two different things
Charlotte was literally the most bigoted and classist character in the whole show. I would chose Miranda, Samantha, and Carrie before her any day!
Im bummed that this video didnt include that guy working in the hotel for little to no money who only got to see his wife once a year because they didnt have enough money. And when Carrie asked him if it was hard he was just like -naaahh love conquers all ig…
Ok real
Yeah, that was incredibly gross. I didn't really get why it bothered me so much, but that hotel employed slave labor. It's ok, though, because Carrie left him a big tip.
it is a fact. There are plenty of married men from South Asia who leave their families behind and work in the middle east straight for almost a year or two before they can afford a break to go home.
The only thing I really don't believe is that Charlotte would have hired someone from Ireland instead of someone who is in that same predicament. Most often the nannies for those types are foreign wmen from the Philippines, African countries Latin America, etc, who leave their families in their respective countries so they can raise the children of their wealthy employers while sending money back home becausethey can pay them much less. Which would truly corroborate the flippant way Carrie treats the hotel "employee."
Aidan was by no means poor. He owned a successful Bar and he was a sought after furniture designer. Aidan was just a guy who liked to live simply.
NGL, the bright spot in this dark, DARK movie is Miranda for me. She's such a fun cinnamon roll the entire movie, and the one person who seems to respect the culture of Abu Dhabi. Samantha is repeatedly humiliated via the scenarios & the dialogue Kim Cattrall is given, and I hate it.
The humiliation of Sam infuriated me
A misogyny wrapped as a culture sure
As if Sam isn’t a worldly well traveled New Yorker and world renowned publicist like she would not be the bumbling dumb American here!
@@lizziebkennedy7505 Oh my god, me too! I was so so mad about what they did to her. Yes, Sam loves Sex, but she's also a skilled businesswoman who would never EVER behave like that, under no circumstances. The hate for Cattrall really shone through in that movie.
Women change a bit during menopause
The movie bothered me because Samantha is a smart PR business woman who would no doubt be smart enough to know of the customs there - wardrobe, behavior in public. The writers of this crap denigrated her.
HOLY SHIT I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THIS!!!! you're right
This is such a good point - just because Samantha is the “horny one” does not mean she wouldn’t be savvy or intelligent enough to understand cultural differences and tailor herself accordingly since she sells images to various audiences, especially as wealthy white women in lavish settings who have less rigid expectations of dress and behavior anyway. The problem is that they turned her into a caricature in service of some weird shallow attempt at feminism that ironically degrades her and does the women of Abu Dhabi even worse.
Yeah but as a blonde white woman from that time she probably didn’t think the laws and rules applied to her.
@@MissAnkh_ah My, aren’t you smug.
kim catrall said samantha's humiliating storylines was the reason she did not want to make another sequel (among other things behind the cameras ofc) which is totally understandable, they ruined the most complex and intriguing character on the show
Carrie always exploits her friends’ lives for her column rather than use the journalistic confessional format to embarrass herself for her art/paycheck. She’s also very judgemental of Samantha, who is the one having all of the sex for her to write about
I agree wholeheartedly that the conversation between Miranda and Charlotte is by far the best / only worthwhile scene of the movie. It's really heartwarming and relatable to see them being real and honest about how hard being a mother actually is.
Would just like to offer my very irish experience of seeing this movie in a very small town in countryside ireland and when the irish tune played and the "irish" woman was running towards the camera, 2 women behind me groaned and said "For fook saaake" and i laughed so hard it gave me a headache and i couldn't remember the rest of the movie until i wayched this video :)
lmao
Those two women were right.
Thank you for this gift of a comment 😂 and my condolences to Ireland
Literallyyy like what tf was that accent and music
Fun fact - A year ago I was stuck in a rural town for 3 months with very limited internet access and this movie was somehow the only one downloaded on my phone. It was a sad time.
You poor thing.....how much have you spent on therapy since then?
This is existentially frightening, I went to reassure myself I still had 18 hours of mystery science theater available at any time no matter what. Safe
@@beth-bi9yv about a billion dollars
@@0meAcat1 lolll
Omg, how did you survive??😭
Carrie married an older man and then is upset that he acts like an older man.
That is a good point!!
Plus Mr. Big never was into Carrie. From the beginning smh
He's allowed to cheat on him? What is with that line? They could have just said they have an open marriage it's not that complicated.
Exactly “he can cheat on me” the animosity that comes with that phrase
Same thing
@@yesterdayseyesnot at all. By definition (like mentioned in the video) if you have an arrangement it’s not cheating. Just because it’s not your preferred lifestyle doesn’t mean that open relationships or polyamory don’t work for anyone
an open marriage/relationship is IMMEDIATELY complicated lol
If only one is allowed to have relationships it’s not open marriage but cheating and the other is pressured to accept it
who honestly would choose Mr Big over Aiden ???
Aiden was a sweet man who wanted to hang out in a cabin with a dog. He was the real catch. Carrie was an idiot.
@@its-beady-eyes5120 Surprisingly enough, Carrie is not an idiot. She's just shit, she's a mess and she knows it. When you are such a mess, it's quite wise to be with people who also put an effort on keeping the distance (because they know they are shit too). So, two people "secretly" agree to keep a big enough distance to hide or at least blur down the mess. Aiden was too healthy and too ready for a close relationship. So, Carrie reasonably felt threatened as she knew she wasn't strong enough to hold the wall alone and he would eventually come close enough to see how shit she is.
I've always maintained that Carrie ended up with exactly who she deserved. She was never good enough for Aiden.
@@its-beady-eyes5120Carrie couldn't handle not going to expensive restaurants every night let alone live in a cabin
He also tried to force Carrie into marrying him because he couldn't trust her. How "sweet"@@its-beady-eyes5120
Someone told me that they thought the SATC2 movie was solely made to embarrass Kim Cattrall. It kinda sounds plausible. 🤷♀️
And yet, she rises above it, as usual.
She made $10 million, I’d embarrass myself too lol
@@maddieb.4282 According to what I read, they didn’t give her any script until she got to Dubai. Sounds kinda dirty-dealing. 🤷♀️
We still love her and miss her❤
@@marcilynn2943that is so sleezy!!!
So where is my fix it fic where Charlotte leaves her husband and gets together with the irish nanny?
Wasn't it the plot of that one Netflix movie?
If you find one post it
Link the video when you find it.
Now I want to write the fic now.
do it@@sparklingdaisy3169
A kid in that school DEFINITELY made something better than a "mouse maze"
What kind of maze is it? That container is TINY! 😂
Lmfao!!!
Lmaooooo I AM SCREAMING! Literally giving me an "it's always sunny in Philadelphia" vibe
@@hannahjoy8623 worm hat
@@laurenm3148 I was thinking the big reveal of Charlie's cat box communication creation 😂 same misplaced pride
When Samantha said "Oh Lawrence of my labia" I shut it off.
Aaand were walking lmfao
That's sadly on brand for the character
And then they wonder why poor Kim Cattrall didn't wanna do more of this series 😭
Exactly lol
💀
“Gay wedding” … sorry I was feeling left out
"gay wedding" I didn't want you to be alone and I felt left out too
Well it is a... GAY WEDDING 😀
Wait, you mean it’s a gay wedding?
When I was in my 20’s living in NYC SATC was a fun kind of fantasy to watch. Now in my 40’s, grown up, it’s an absolute mess of a nightmare. Carrie is the absolute worst.
SAME.
The way they try to make the mistress sleeping with a married man the victim instead of the wife...
Why did any if them believe the hot nanny would ever hook up with Harry?
TRULY
@@mothcub 🤣 objectification much, that 'threat' is a whole living, breathing thinking and feeling person too, it was childish to make her gay simply to bring a happy resolution.
why would any nanny hook up with Harry? Why the assumption of adultery at all?
Money? Green card? Lazy evil attractive nanny trope? 🤔
Because she took every opportunity to jump around brakes in front of him like an insane person.
As a fan of the series that I am, I pretend that the movies and the new series DO NOT EXIST.
Same
To be honest anything after around season 4 is weirdly out of character, the movies only leaned harder towards the campy side and they got richers and glossier and less relatable.
Same. My head canon begins and ends with the series.
i just rewatched the series fully and im not gonna watch the movie 😭 its gonna spoil the good ending i was left with
@@taeey2kktbh i lie to myself and tell myself it's a stand alone movie and it makes great 😂👍🏽
i wrote a mean comment about how i dont like charlotte but you made me realise that ive treated her too harshly over the years
lmao
Nah, Charlotte is a prude :D
@@esikazemese Just because she didn't want to be the up the butt girl?!
Now I’m thinking of thanos saying this lol
I'm sorry but I am a firm believer Charlotte pressured Miranda to keep her baby and be with Steve by projecting her wishes on her. Every movie Miranda says she regrets her life but then ppl are shocked by the character assassination in "Just like that". That is my gripe with Charlotte
Ok but Samanatha screaming "CONDOMS" & "I HAVE SEX"might just be the best scene for me, like wtf 😂😂😂
It's easily my favourite moment haha
Came looking for this
No seriously. I died laughing because of that scene. Will never forget 😂
That's most memorable moments
She'd have been arrested immediately over there. Stupidest Hollywood tripe ever.
shrek and the city 2 is a tasty movie.
Me imagining a shrek/satc crossover movie inside my own gorgeous mind: nice
@@mothcub “This lingerie is like an onion”
The movie came out after the 2008 financial crash so its extravagant displays of 1% consumerism were also in very poor taste. Michael Patrick King, inexplicably promoted to showrunner (probably because he flattered SJP and not because of his life experience as a single woman) has said he wanted to cheer up the audience, but he is bad at his job and lying.
It’s that all the luxury brands paying to be in the movie didn’t want to be featured alongside realistic financial struggles, but rather displayed against a background of grotesque opulence.
Really emblematic how this show about sex became a show about non-essential lifestyle spending, in the grand tradition of US culture converting basic human needs and desires into overpriced consumer goods. Sad and pathetic loss of a once groundbreaking project.
Called it.
The movie-like the franchise as a whole-has always been a showcase for paid product placements. Which meant it could only glorify conspicuous consumption-never seriously critique it, or even satirize it with any but the most gentle humor.
This is also why the show and series as a whole became a time capsule. It captured an era of prosperity and youthful exuberance, chasing dreams in a place that no longer exists. While providing social commentary and exploring various social issues in a unique way, featuring countless famous and upcoming actors/actresses.
But I mean even in a long gone era of prosperity WHO the everlasting freck could ever have been able to afford these gigantic apartments or 500 dollar shoes every Tuesday or any of this wealth?! This was always a vehicle for consumerism under the guise of sexual liberation imo 🤷🏼♀️
Oh my god let people enjoy things Jesus fucking Christ. No one wants to see evictions and debt suicides in fucking Sex and the City 2
@@GHC3 I wouldn't say the 2000s was an "era of prosperity". Even before the 2007 recession, the cost of living was already high and people were suffering financially compared to the 80s or 90s.
Can we also say, that the whole running through the streets of Abu Dhabi was because we didn’t want to fly back in ‘coach’. Like they weren’t trying to flee a Gulag. Just didn’t want to fly economy.
But isn’t flying coach like being in a gulag? /s 😂 at least in this movie’s world
What a bunch of spoiled women. Lmao
I can somewhat understand them, think abt it from this perspective they have to be on the flight for over 7 hours I would at least wanna be in decent seats too, if you were going to buy first class or any upgrades like that a long flight is the only time it’s worth it
I feel like there's some kind of next level ennui I don't understand that comes with being able to afford two New York apartments... surely that's somehow part of why the idea of staying home for an evening instead of endlessly attending dinners at restaurants called "Le Sink" is so terrifying to her, right? She needs the impending notion that she's about to be approached by a server and offered a menu, lest the thoughts about her life begin to creep in.
The only reason why she was able to afford her first apartment is because it was rent controlled. Then, when the building went co-op, Aiden came in to save the day by buying it for her. Then, after she cheated on him with Big, lying to all her friends about it, making his wife faceplant at the base of a stairwell busting her face, and manipulating Charlotte who got her "nice" apartment from her own divorce settlement (it's not like she and Trey didn't try to make things work) as well as Charlotte's inability to find a good job because she was over qualified (docents are supposed to be retired people who love art) by making her sell her engagement ring because Aiden was suing her for money lost.
I think my point in that rambling was: Carrie paid a cheap rent since the 1980s, then never had to make any sacrifices to buy it.
She's addicted to drama, she had no problem staying in and eating a home cooked dinner when she was agonizing about where her relationship with Big was going
Lol Carrie did not manipulate Charlotte into doing anything. She rightfully pointed out that she was being rude when she was talking about her financial woes and Charlotte interrupted her. She even said that even if Charlotte had offered the money, she wouldn't have accepted. Because it was the principle.
@@ggsilik
@@radhiadeedou8286well, not homecooked, but delivery at least 😂
Big literally hates Carrie and settled for her can’t convince me otherwise
Agreed
me swimming to the bottom of the ocean to tap on the side of big's plastic box, distressing him immensely
this is such a funny comment 😭
Heyy!! Harry was a wonderful husband in the series... Him and Smith were the only 2 guys that matters
Yeah I like Harry in the original series for the most part. Rare normal type person.
@@60wwedivaAre you new here? 😂😂😂 Who hurt you? Harry was obsessed with Charlotte, neither of them settled for each other.
Yes, Harry and Smith were the only two men that I loved the most on this show
Right I love Harry lol
I felt bad for Charlotta already when she, by the initiative of her husband, had to give up her Christian faith, which was a part of her personality, just in order to get the chance to be with him, because he admitted, that he would only marry a Jewish woman. And after she did it - for his sake! - and started learning, how to be a proper Jewish wife, - he not only did not appreciate her sacrifice, but left her! If that was not a huge red flag, then what was it?!
Dear ladies, - never, - and I mean NEVER! - sacrifice anything for a man. Men just don't appreciate it. If a man wants you to sacrifice your faith, or dignity, or career, - he does not love you. And men, who don't love - they cheat. Period.
>>Dear ladies, - never, - and I mean NEVER! - sacrifice anything for a man. Men just don't appreciate it. If a man wants you to sacrifice your faith, or dignity, or career, - he does not love you.
That always rubbed me the wrong way. He was her divorce layer for her first marriage, told her how much he adored her, then pulled a trap card and went, 'sorry, I can only marry you if you're Jewish like me'. Like, first of all, that's BS (even back in the 90s Fran Drescher's character married a Christian man), but also like, that should've been Charlotte's cue to run.
@@AtlasBlizzard My sentiments exactly!
Other than that Christmas tree, She didn’t express being a Christian, and had lots os sex partners (“up the butt girl” etc.). Her values were more traditional than the others, but let’s not forget that. Is it in fact acceptable for a woman with a culturally religious background but no faith to convert?
Wait, Harry left her???
I feel like Carrie was written using every psychology textbook on childhood trauma and self-sabotage...
I think the fact this movie exists might be a hate crime
I think Carrie was scared she would lose her marriage by being bored on it, she idolizes and seems to have deep fears in terms of being "conventional", she tried too hard to be special, and it seems she never learns, she never did.
That 'high fashion' Big Bird outfit the Abu Dhabi woman proudly reveals under her Burqa always gets me. 🤣
HeeeeeY!! I loved that Big Bird skirt!! ❤😊❤
Same 😂😂😂 why did they do her like that? she looks like the big bird in Sesame Street lol
😂
ABU DHABI DOO
Imagine staying at home and watch tv, oh the humanity
Carrie cannot write. I’m sorry even watching the first 4 seasons(I can’t get past it, I’ve tried twice). Her writing is so superficial and most of the time the point goes over her head😂😂 this was fun to watch
The magazine review was a little harsh, but maybe deserved because why does this universe pretend that Carrie is a good writer?
Popular writer, not a great writer
True to life for some columnists.
she writes a column, not philosophical essays x)
She's a thought catalogue writer at best
I got a silly sensation that the United Arab Emirate had something do with the financing of this movie.
They didn't finance it, in fact they refused to give permission to film the movie in Abu Dhabi because they thought it was offensive to the culture. The movie was instead shot in Morocco
Literally everything they depicted about the middle East was incredibly offensive. No way the UAE would ever fund it.
No, in reality, upper class liberal white women simply love to fetishize and degrade "exotic" cultures.
@@summeroflove394that's so interesting!!!
If they did it backfired. I will NEVER go to the Middle East, especially Abu Dabi.
What a rollercoaster. Veil-discourse in the 2000s was absolutely cursed
*Proud of my brain for devoting 0% memory to this flick.* 👍
LOL me too but I did recall the ugly outfits and the camels.
I hate how they turned Aiden into a douche bag. He knows his wife is insecure about Carrie and asks her out to dinner and cheated. SMH he was supposed to be the good guy
2010 middle aged woman Egypt vacation hyperreality
this inflicted psychic damage
Fun Fact: Abu Dhabi is not in Egypt
@@esm82ifyThe average European family can't afford to go to Abu Dhabi. So they book the next best thing - all inclusive vacation in egypt / tunisia etc. Abu Dhabi in Sex and the City 2 does not have any particular qualities - it's all the same thing - "the new middle east". You go to a market, ride camels, have a hotel where natives do your bidding. This movie exist so that this profile of customer can say: "omg i'm just like the sex and the city girls
Yeah I think what they meant is actual people cannot afford to go to Abu Dhabi 😅
@@esm82ifyfun fact: that actually was likely on purpose to make the comment funnier
11:30 that scene always kills me when she gets upset cause skirt was so special but then...WHY ARE YOU COOKING IN WHITE, FAV SKIRT? 😂 like tf
I've seen a few comments like this and it's like, ok sure, but it's not really cooking that gets her dirty. I fully believe Charlotte would have the ability to remain clean and pristine while cooking tbh.
When Liza started singing "Single Ladies" I became rage-filled. I got the worst case of secondhand cringe in my life. It was visceral, it was feral and it primed me for the rest of the movie. Oh, yeah! And I remember the audience in the theater cheering at the Charlotta and Miranda at the bar scene. It was literally the only relatable thing in the movie! I felt so bad for all of us, lmao.
You were not strong enough, and that's okay. However, you will be punished by the eternal spirit of Liza. Good luck xoxo
Liza punished herself for signing on for this movie. What was she thinking stooping so low?! With THOSE knees? Good luck to you too, baby
I was like…is this what mommy issues does to a woman? 😭 😂
I just wish Charlotte would have actually sipped the drink in that scene. I was so distracted by her fake drinking! 😂
@@pennypenny376😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 not “ with those knees.” 😂😂😂😂
SATC II is an empty, capitalist nightmare. There's literally nothing but pointless opulence. Even fashion is lacking. Before it was personal, interesting and innovative. The fashion department mixed street fashion with designer pieces. It was bold, unique and eye-catching. SATC II is an endless ad spot with poor writing, bad characters and a boring story. It was when all characters underwent the process of flanderization, and this was the moment when they stripped Miranda of her pride, and made her a cringy, socially inept and silly person. Miranda was smart, was clever and learned quickly but in SATC II she was unable to pronounce words she asked people to teach her. This deafness has been borrowed during the writers' panel for the TV reboot. SATC was never an intellectual feast with minimum of luxury but the second movie is just a travesty.
Thanks, I hate it. They are all the worst.
No depth. It should be an embarrassment but people continue to celebrate this show.
There's a vlog about how SATC has destroyed women's relationship with money.
Well worth a look.
@@deborahcurtis1385it was written by men right?
Haven't the Irish suffered enough?
😂
This movie is my go-to for inflicting psychic and spiritual damage
Not to mention clothes-fails
I lived in the ME for 10 years. Believe me, at least for the upper classes, that taking off the burka to reveal louis vuitton scene was the only part that struck me as real.
“It has slayed too soon. We now must begin our descent into hell.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was most definitely Carrie's whiniest movie. She finally got the guy and now she whined throughout the whole movie about how 'boring' they were becoming. It actually became a fear of hers turning into a boring old couple even though theres literally nothing wrong with that. She pushed Big into going to a movie premier with her even though he was exhausted then got annoyed with what he did whilst there. Then goes to Abu Dhabi and argues about how seeing Aiden 'means something'. She was absolutely insufferable. The definition of a spoilt girl - never satisfied.
Which it didn’t make sense for her to be into Aiden again if she was afraid of being in a boring relationship if he would want to just chill in a cabin. It would have at least made sense if they would have switched it and had Carrie wanting them to have more of a down to earth relationship and Big wanting to keep the lavish lifestyle.
23:59 i mostly can’t stand charlotte but I love that charlotte has no advice after Carrie went after her for saying it was a bad idea. It’s really too much to expect her to be supportive and “I told you so” would have been a disaster so “I don’t know I’m drunk” is pretty much her best play.
Idk, i love how this is a whole nothing movie, pure mind-unplugging entertainment, 2010 was the year of “sequels about nothing” along Grown Ups 2 and Eclipse
That's how I feel with pretty much all the fast and furious or marvel universe.
Eclipse is one of my favorites in the Twilight franchise 😆
I always heard comments from people comparing themselves to the characters on the show, like " i'm a miranda" or "i'm a Carrie". Just recently watched all seasons and the movies at the age of 32 and I couldn't relate to any of them.
That’s not surprising! Carrie’s friends are her id, ego, and super ego. They’re all 1/4 of a whole woman.
Why did you continue watching all of it if you didn’t find any of the characters relatable? Seems kind of depressing
@@maddieb.4282 There was some funny moments which was still entertaining so I continued watching. I don't always feel the need to see myself in a character, take the show It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia for example. The characters in that are mental but it's just fun the watch all the chaos.
@@maddieb.4282many people watch movies & tv shows for entertainment, not for relatability lol
Your judgment is from a show that is almost 30 years old. Times and attitudes have changed so much.
I've never watched the SATC movies because everything I hear about them just veers into character/relationship assassination territory. Like the idea that Harry or Steve would ever cheat in the show itself is so baffling I can't fathom it, they were both so aggressively Wife Guys™ before we had that terminology 😂 good to know Carrie is consistently terrible though??
You know the original Wife Guy (Ned something wasn't it?) turned out to be a big time cheater, right? Turns out the wife guys usually are™.
As someone who watched the show it would’ve made wayyyyyyyyy more sense for Miranda to cheat on Steve because she always felt above him. But I guess they wanted to make women feel normal for taking back a cheating husband. 😑😑😑
I appreciated the trademark, dude
@@belun6462what the fuck
@@belun6462in Miranda’s defense, she was above him tho. Let us not forget that the man couldn’t be bothered to wipe his own ass and Miranda inexplicably washed the skid marks out of his underwear. It’s a no from me
Miranda should've never gotten married.
There, I said it!
Not to Steve. She should have chose Robert
@@missnicolemarleyShe wasn't in love with Robert (and Im not sure why) but that big cookie he gave scared her
@@slimjen1000 It scared her bc she felt she didn’t deserve Robert. She even said she didn’t know what he saw in her so she sabotaged it by choosing Steve.
I was socially exiled from my friends CAUSE THEY loved this show, and I HATED IT
PS I still hate it
You were right.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.
I have yet to watch a single episode despite my (male and female) friends liking it. I do enjoy the many videos that analyze it however.
Irish person and first-time watcher here - subscribed as soon as you referred to the nanny's accent as a hate crime.
The truth must be stated! ❤️
I need to circle back to the INSANE notion that the New Yorker, weekly magazine beloved by intellectual snobs everywhere, would EVER deign to review a book written by a former sex columnist for, basically, the New York Post, titled, "I do, Do I?" No. Absolutely not.
Idk, if it was good they might review it. They’re all about cultural diversity lol
The New Yorker has had some dumbass reviews and articles realistically.
Oh the Islamophobia of this movie never fails to shock me
Womp womp
I think it's interesting to think that the movie's bad humanization of the women in Abu Dhabi makes a bit more sense when looking at this movie at the time it was released. Part of the Sex and the City series was made post 9/11 when there was a lot of racism and discrimination against Middle Eastern people. Patriotism and islamophobia seeped its way into every corner of American media. So the only way for these white, probably WASP-y writers to humanize these women is to do a very distasteful "they're just like us" scene. "These women actually LOVE America!! They HATE their own culture and WORSHIP ours!!" It's gross, it's icky, and it perfectly encapsulates how many American writers tried to not be racist. By instead being nationalist.
You're insane. The only genuine part of the film is to display how actual women and men live in these societies. The man separated from his wife serving Carrie, the women not allowed to wear what they want. I guess the insanity for the women in Afganistan today must have escaped your brain.
SATC was made *before* 9/11. 9/11 happened while Season 4 was filming, I believe
Seriously, good thought but SATC came YEARS before 9/11 😳
@@j.wynona8342 you're right, I meant "part of the sex and the city series was made post 9/11" that's my bad lol!
Enjoy the diversity, dear. Hope you get enriched beyond your wildest dreams
I hate that the 'jude law' joke got a laugh out of me
I'm not sure I get the joke? 😅 What does Judeyboy have to do with big-breastfed nannies? Pls educate me
@@pringlebatch so... way, waaaaay back, like, late 90s early 2000s, jude law had an affair with the nanny of his kids
@@murciadoxial8056woahhh
is it just me or the whole encounter with Aidan in the market is a big cringefest? first of all the bad acting and the worse jokes🤦And then hunky Aidan acting like Carrie in her worst, less becoming outfit and hairdo ever is the most beautiful creature he's ever seen?? 🤦🤦not to mention her still talking in a baby voice well into her forties thinking it's cute??
Oh and another thing that always bothers me when I watch these sketches: why is Carrie always so full of contempt for Charlotte that she doesn't let an opportunity pass by to spit out cruel unkind words at her? what's with that?? If someone talked to me like that they wouldn't see me again!
If my ex had cheated on me and that's why we broke up, no way would I be that happy to see them again.
The Charlotte and Miranda bonding scene is the only thing about this movie I like, and Miranda's overall happy streak. I was definitely not a fan of the second movie overall for so many reasons.
"Erin go braless" has lived rent-free in my head for 14 years 😩😩
Same!
Mine too 😉
It's been 14 years??? *cries*
Kids said it all the times in the 70’s
@@xbjrrtc Alice Eve’s accent, her character’s name (Erin/Eireann means *Ireland* in Gaelic), the jiggy music that is her *leitmotif* … Does the director have an anti-Irish bias?
Aiden ever having ANYTHING to do with Carrie after the show time frame made no sense, much less "haha, one that got away!"
Carrie was an exceptionally insufferable person in the original series and she naturally matured into a horrible woman, that was actually quite consistent of the movie.
You got me there
Lmao not her spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an apartment as big as two houses only for her to never want to be home. Especally after EVERYTHING that happend in the first movie????? The two of them looking for a place to live was a giant plot line and now she just abandons all of this? I feel like C has FOMO and is also afraid to actually spent time with her husband. As long as everything is new and shiny and they are always on the move, C is kind of happy. But the moment C and Big actually have to sit together and just be with each other I think she realizes that they are not compatible at all. She doesnt want to face that since she spent so much time hunting him down.
At the exact moment you said Carrie has bad taste, I was thinking to myself "Awesome, the dress I'm wearing tonight for dinner looks just like Carrie's but in red! I'm a style icon!" 🥴
lmao I'm sorry cucumber 🥒 I'm sure you look incredible 💕
@@mothcub 🤗 Thanks - green does look interesting in red!
@@glittery_cucumber it's okay to have different styles and different tastes. carrie's was always "out there" for some people. personally i'm a big sweatpants and a hoodie gal, so.... you enjoy your dress.
The white Halston dress she wore early in the movie was great. Everything else was crap, including her dark, fussy, ugly apartment she shares with big. Miranda was the best dressed in the movie for once.
Lmao I actually loved that blue glittery dress, you're fine.
I saw this movie in theatres having not seen the show or the previous movie at the time. it was like being hit in the head with a brick. thank u for helping me heal
I didn't get why Miranda was the prude police (Abu Dhabi expert) when charlotte spent 6 seasons being just that, and we know how much she likes to study and hates being inappropriate. I also didn't like that Miranda only ever told Samantha to cover up but Carrie is almost tits out in the desert and she said nothing to her. As an Arab obviously a lot of things bothered me about how they showed Arab women (especially that woman eating a fry was somehow like a zoo animal. But definitely top tier insane in my opinion is Aidan being so happy to see and be with Carrie like....really?????
Let's be honest these women were not even Arabs, they were Indian or something else.......
Lol for Carrie raging about Big’s tv. Do you remember her relationship with that Russian artist? In the end of the series. It was a blatant proof for how uninteresting she was. Claiming to be a writer, no interest or ability to talk about poetry, art, any conversation apart from flirting. That was sad. Even with that fashionista thing, the series was showing her as simply shopaholic and not someone as involved in history of fashion or any philosophy to it, like i would think about art History, for example. She failed with the column in Vogue, for god’s sake! That was soooo sad…
‘She always kept one eye on you’
Aidan and Carrie immediately proving why she needed to
It really annoyed me that they said “haan ji” was Arabic when it’s Punjabi! They also pronounced the Arabic words wrong.
Hindi also
You don't like it cause its missing Danny Devito
It could have done with just a touch of Danny
Wait… let them cook
oh my god my jaw dropped at the local women revealing themselves to be fashionistas like the SATC crew followed by a burka escape.
HOW does stuff like this get written and greenlit without ANYONE seeing how distasteful it is lmaoo just absolute insane television for a series that originally started as social commentary.
1. I took a class with a nurse who used to regularly travel from Saudi Arabia to France (I know, fancy) and she said that they used to announce when they left Saudi airspace they would announce it and everyone wearing head coverings would start removing them - and many of them revealed them to cocktail dresses. It likely would have been around the 1970s, so that also tracks with how people used to dress for travel (it used to be a bit more formal to travel).
2. Once a woman at my gym wore a burqini! I was rather surprised, I live in suburbia, but I’m curious not rude, so I glanced at her occasionally… and I couldn’t help but be filled with the feeling that it seemed SO COMFORTABLE? She was wrangling a toddler, getting in and out of the water… that’s kind of a lot of movement for a garment, and it looked to be moving seamlessly with her, I did not see her having to readjust. It was, in fairness, like a brand name (I think it may have even been Nike?) burqini, so I’m sure you could get ones that are worse, but this looked like actual swimwear. And I’ve found out since that there are people with certain sensory issues and disorders who benefit from head coverings? I’m not sure I’m that person, but… well, it would probably be useful to both Muslims AND people with these specific medical problems if we stopped having a huge stick up our butts about head coverings…
My family burns very easily and my dad keeps getting skin cancers removed so my sister and I have been wearing versions of burkinis for well over a decade(we have to cover our faces more than women who wear them for religious reasons). They make some really good ones but I have been having terrible allergic reactions to random things outside so I haven’t needed to wear one for a long time.
If only women stopped getting murder3d in some parts of the world because of a "head covering", like that girl in Iran...
Middle eastern girls wore black yoga pants and long sleeve black shirts at the indoor water park I went to with family up north. Held a lot of water getting in and out for pools but no one had any issues.
ياليل
jewish people wear head coverings yet nobody bats an eye, muslim women? shock and horror
you forgot about how Carrie talked to one of the servant guys. and how she left him cash so that he's able to see his wife sooner, even though they were rushing out of the hotel.
I didn't forget it I just didn't have anything to say about that lol
When carrie complained about staying in i was like gorl please!!!
Same. I love being at home with a good movie or RUclips video, you know?