Sex and the City 2 
 
 'Sex and the City 2' review: Ladies at premiere may dazzle, but movie offers sloppy seconds 
 
 Blankenhorn/AP Like Champagne left out overnight, Samantha, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte have lost their sparkle in 'Sex and the City 2'. This picture is going to be a smash.Some of us who enjoyed the outrageous antics showcased in the HBO series created by Darren Star and executed in later years by Michael Patrick King (the writer-director of both films) found the first movie disappointingly bland.
– Sex and the City 2 premiered in New York last night, and the early reviews are not good, to say the least. Read on—or, if you’d rather see the red carpet fashions from the premiere, click here. “The only thing memorable about Sex and the City 2 is the number two part, which describes it totally, if you get my drift,” writes Rex Reed in a scathing New York Observer review that goes on to call the movie a “deadly, brainless exercise in pointless tedium” and its characters “vain, narcissistic, selfish, superficial, and really rather stupid.” “The film is an epic eyesore,” declares David Edelstein of New York. Sarah Jessica Parker’s skin looks “leathery,” Cynthia Nixon is “mummified,” and Kim Cattrall looks “like a cross between (late) Mae West and (dead) Bea Arthur.” Carrie is again embroiled in drama, after a run-in with former flame Aidan, in a situation “so been-there, done-that, you wonder if she has an emotional imbalance that keeps her perpetually dissatisfied with life.”writes Amy DiLuna in the New York Daily News. In the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Farber writes, “There's something bracing about the film's saucy political incorrectness” —but it still goes on “at least 40 minutes too long.”