Foursome

It has been a long time since I laughed out loud at a movie.

I generally find the canned jokes of most commercial movies to be predictable and only mildly humorous but not so when it comes to the girls of SATC. There are a couple of scenes that are just downright funny and embarrassingly truthful. I appreciate the real humor in the movie and that the characters didn’t take themselves too seriously.

I should also note that it was during the funny parts of the movie that I realized I was in a theater full of gay folks. This was a quirky, funny show on TV that brought people together, and it is to be so in the cinemas as well.

I especially identify with the deeper theme to this movie though that seemed to have escaped most of the silly reviews I have read. The fact that no relationship can grow or mature (or mean much at all) unless its foundation is built on grace.

The real meaning might have been hidden behind the extravagant clothing and shoes, but there are some great points here about how when we forgive friends and lovers, our relationships become free to grow. Friends aren’t perfect, and men sure aren’t either, but any investment in either will require a fair amount of grace to be really worth the effort.

I did not go in expecting anything from this movie. I approach each movie I see with only the expectation that I will be entertained — it did that. I wanted it true to the TV show yet to feel more like a movie — and it does!

Now that Carrie and her crew have left the bittersweet college of cosmo-hedonism, the film treats them shrewdly as cynical wised-up fortysomethings facing life on the other side of the adult divide.