Issue date: 6/3/08 Section: Aggielife

Sex has its great moments - like Carrie's emotional clubbing of Big in the middle of New York traffic with a bundle of flowers and Steve's stunning admission - but these are too few and too disconnected and too drawn out to keep a dumb male like me interested. I felt like the girls didn't really get anywhere given where the TV series ended. Charlotte and Harry are completely static, Miranda and Steve finish exactly where the started and Carrie ends up with the guy we all knew she would end up with. Only Samantha's resolution with Smith Jared was a courageous step for executive producer Michael Patrick King and his writers, and even that felt like a little bit of a cop-out designed to balance out the lack of movement with the other principal characters.

Truthfully, the series just doesn't translate well to the contained plot box in movie world. Movies encourage contrived and predictable plots because there is no next episode. Even though the movie still has that "Sex and the City" feeling and style, it was the chances that the writers took with the series that made it sharp and progressive. Without the boldness, "Sex and the City" is a lot less sexy.

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