Trick Me Again, MPK!

Necessary info:
MPK - Michael Patrick King
SJP - Sarah Jessica Parker
S&TC - Sex and the City

So another thing I've been watching on repeat is the new Sex and the City trailer. It's good, right? It just reminds me what a sucker I am for those characters. I saw the first trailer for the first movie and I was excited because it had been four years and the movie was something a lot of us thought would never happen. We should have known by the trailer and the poster that it might not be the greatest follow up of all times. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing "the girls" back in "the City", but overall the movie was a bit long and sad. While I admire what MPK was doing and I think there was some excellent storytelling, I was left a little empty inside. I thought the costuming was good, but it just felt like the TV show on the big screen in certain ways and not all of those ways translated. Again, I'm a huge fan and will forgive anything.

So fast forward two years to the sequel. Well, the minute I saw the teaser poster with SJP in the aviators and the white Halston with the bedazzled number 2...I drooled a little bit. I knew we were in for some over the top outrageousness. Then the first trailer...it was a tease, but more info was shared than in the teaser trailer for the first movie. It had some clips, it looked good, "Empire State of Mind" was used effectively. We knew they were going to the desert, there was an over the topness about that trip.

Then I waited four months. FOUR MONTHS!!!!! For a damn trailer. And just when my patience was used up, we got the new trailer last Thursday. And I does NOT disappoint. Let me tell you. It's fucking great.

Let me illustrate the battle between the rational mind and the maniac that I am for this show.

The trailer starts with more shots of New York and "Empire State of Mind." I think: "Really? This started out just like the last one." Then: Oh My God! The girls are back! One, two, three four! They're back, they're back, they're back!!!! Thank God Then I hear "It's been two years..." Oh My God! VOICEOVER! It has been two years! two long years, SJP. Why couldn't you just do another series to hold us over. Five episodes would have done me just fine! We see the girls in action. Lily is driving Charlotte crazy and puts two red handprints on her white pants. Then Carrie gives Big a watch. They're both looking a little haggard and old. Are you sure it's only been two years and not twenty because you look old. But just when my cynical self starts to take over, the girls are back at brunch with the kids and Charlotte wonders how Samantha is going to swallow all of her anti-aging pills. And Samantha replies with: Have We Met? Oh God! That Kim Catrall is so amazing. Can they all be nominated for the Oscar already? Then more funny lines and the whole "We need to work on the Sparkle." And Just when I think I've seen it all...LIZA LIZA LIZA LIZA!!!!! It's got a Z in it!

What does happen after you say "I Do", Carrie? Then they decide to go to Abu Dabi and the music changes. They're in the dessert. Okay, turbans. Hammer pants. The fashion show in the middle of the trailer. I get it. A few more jokes. I'm starting to get board then I see...what is it that I see? I see Carrie in a J'Adore Dior tee and a ball skirt and a tan man who strangely looks like...

AIDEN! Are you fucking kidding me? She's going to go through this shit again? It's Aiden vs. Big? Really? Come on! Haven't go gotten over Aiden! He's back and he's amazing and oh God, I love him. And is he going to fuck this all up? It'll be fun to watch because all of Carrie's ridiculous behavior is so amazing and oh god, I'm going to faint. Can I get a glass of water? I'm lightheaded. Really, I'm going to faint it's just too much! too much of a good thing!

So I really don't calm down for the rest of the trailer. And even though I think the Aiden thing might be a little dumb and too convenient, I just can't wait to see them together and to see her be temped and for it to get all messed up. But this time the movie seems like more of a romp (as they've said in many interviews). It's going to be so good! Oh Jesus, what will I wear on opening night? I want May 27th to come now!

And all hope is lost. I love the girls. I can't wait to see them again.