Let's first let it be known that I haven't seen much, if any, of the show. I've been aware of it like many other people out there, but never really had the chance to get into it or just plain get into it in general.
Fortunately, like most tv-to-movie cinema, this film makes room for the just-wandered-in with a little up-front explanation. A lot of up front explanation. You really didn't need to see the show to watch this film, which, I know I'll lose some geek cred for saying so, I enjoyed.
I know most of my enjoyment stemmed from its romanticized unromantic leanings and the fact it was a bunch of girls sitting around talking about sex (gee, how is this similar to my life?), but in particular it was the performance of Kristin Davis as Charlotte York.
Watching Sex in the City meant watching her steal the show any time she was on screen. Her face was this nimble portrayal unmasking all her emotions in the funniest of ways. It was like watching a real-life caricature of how to act. She'd mug just enough to take it above the rest of her gliding co-stars and keep it just below cartoony so that it seemed credible. Seeing Davis pull some of the faces made me want to just sit her down for ten minutes and play random clips to see how she'd react as this character.
Her triumph is the scene where Charlotte, after achieving levels of OCD I thought only possible of Adrian Monk when it came to avoiding the water and cuisine of Mexico, swallows a little of the South of the Border. This in turn aggravates her South of Border and after an internal struggle she expresses through every pore, she shits herself. Quite gloriously.
Maybe it's because I've been close to that point myself (mall trip when I was a teenager and Taco Bell was catching up when I couldn't locate a loo), but every little dance she did with her face made me giggle like mad up till that last point of explosion. Then I exploded. In a more enjoyable way. With laughter, people.
Proof that what my dad says is true- "Nothing beats a well-timed fart joke." And Kristin Davis's faces.
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