Sex and the City had its world premiere in London Monday night, and the reaction
of the audience may have been a lot more enthusiastic than those of the critics.
Will Pavia of the Times acknowledged as much. After outlining numerous complaints
about the film ("It can feel like a never-ending dinner party: however pleasant
the courses, after a while you can hardly eat another one") Pavia remarked, "None
of these problems seemed apparent to the women who sat around me ... laughing and
weeping in quick succession. After a while I began to reason like one of the characters:
maybe the problem was me." The Sun observed, "There were oohs and aahs, cheers,
laughter -- and more than a few tissues dabbed on eyes. Sex and the City will
give its legion of female fans what they want." And Celia Walden in the Daily Telegraph
concluded: "One thing's for sure: fans of the series will lap this film up. It
was coarse, sentimental, and outrageously materialistic -- just as we hoped and exp
ected it would be."
13/05/2008
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