Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they surmise that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to eschew their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down.
An enervated, crass and gruesomely caricatured trip to nowhere [that] seems conceived primarily to find new and more cynical ways to abuse the loyalty of its audience.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
28 May 2010
rotten:
It's an almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
28 May 2010
fresh:
In the end it's the fun movie it's supposed to be. Raise your cosmos in a modest toast.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
28 May 2010
rotten:
I realize that gaudy fantasy is essential to this franchise, but why does the fantasy have to be so stunted?
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Jun 2010
rotten:
Sarah Jessica Parker is now 45 years old, and, frankly, I cannot stomach another moment of the simpering, mincing, hair-tossing, eyelash-batting little-girl shtick she's been pulling ever since L.A. Story.