Stars Align for Second 'New Year's Eve' Trailer

The Super Bowl of rom coms and date movies is back for part II.  The producers who gave audiences Valentine's Day now follow it up with New Year's Eve, another romantic holiday of sorts.  Gary Marshall's next relationship film is equally star studded, featuring a cast of talent I'm not particularly fond of in Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher, Zac Efron, Sarah Jessica Parker, Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.  

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Trailer To 'Valentines Day' Sequel 'New Year's Eve'

I am ashamed to admit that I did actually enjoy Valentine's Day, but my enjoyment was minuscule; if that could save me from having my man card revoked.  The film wasn’t well received by critics and even GTBP gave it 2 Damn Dirty Apes and I understand why.  Now, a trailer has been released for the sequel, New Year's Eve.

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Movie Review - 'Sex and the City 2'

Sex and the City 2 Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon Directed by Michael Patrick King Rated R

Littering the skyline of Pyongyang is the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel. The anything-but-humble pyramid stands 105 stories, broke ground in 1987, and when it consumed a reported 2% of the entire gross domestic product of North Korea, construction was halted in 1992. At that time, $750 million had been spent on a structure that had no foreseeable finish line. It remained an unoccupied safety hazard for 16 years until private funds were secured to finish by, say, 2012 what’s been called the worst building in the world. Terrible things can happen when you throw money at something before thinking it through. In a more figurative sense, Sex and the City 2 is an equally large monument to waste. The four main characters, so well-written for television, are reduced to unfunny caricatures of themselves, the story has almost no structure, the dialogue is clearly uninspired, and the production spent a whopping $10 million…just on the wardrobe. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is getting accustomed to the quiet married life; Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) is fighting menopause; Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is ill-prepared to be a mother to toddlers; and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) is juggling parenthood and her career. Certainly, there’s plenty to explore within these stories. After all, the show spent seven years establishing the characters on these paths. So how does Sex and the City 2 handle them? Not at all. Instead, the girls take an all-expenses paid trip to Abu Dhabi. Well of course they do. The charm and intelligence of the series was how female viewers could identify with the characters and their problems. There was someone on television going through the same stupid relationship drama or exploring some taboo. That was probably very comforting. It was certainly something to latch on to, which is why – in bars and restaurants across America around the turn of this century – it was so common to hear women refer to themselves as the “Carrie” or the “Charlotte” of their group. Men, wisely, gravitated to the “Samantha.”

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'Sex and the City 2' Has $10 Million Wardrobe Budget

Generally speaking, sequels do one thing really well: Spend a lot more money. And I've never understood it. The mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a good rule to follow, so if it was a success the first time, why would you go about changing it just because it was a success before?

In the case of Sex and the City 2, this is actually the third time around, because it was a very popular TV show first, and for a few seasons, understandably so. They kept a lot of that same spirit alive for the movie, although the California/Mexico stuff was unnecessary. For Sex 2, of course, they're shooting all over hell's half-acre. But the real added expense is the fashion. New York Magazine (via Cinema Blend) reports that the sequel spent - get this - $10 million on wardrobe. I know it takes a lot to make Sarah Jessica Parker look less troglodytic these days, but $10 million? For four characters?

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'Sex and the City 2' Poster Hardly a Desert Oasis

What has two thumbs and is really unimpressed by the trailers and posters for Sex and the City 2? This guy. Here's the latest poster, which reminds me how much hotter Gemma Arterton looks surrounded by a bunch of desert sand in Prince of Persia.

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