Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Colin
Throughout the past years, the sisterhood has kept us together through changes, loss, love, and taught us to believe in ourselves. The pants had the power to cause miracles…. because they fit all of us? Even the curvy girl. For realsies. That’s the premise of the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and last night I got to experience the long awaited sequel.
I think it very well be a testament to my character that I still haven’t seen The Dark Night but I have now seen both Mamma Mia! and SotTP 2. I think it means I just value having fun more than most people, but it may secretly mean that my brain is that of a 13 year old girl. You decide. If the latter, I blame the high levels of mercury in the tuna I eat and marijuana.
While the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants may be a near masterpiece of teen coming of age cinema, full of hope, change, loss, life experiences, and moments that make me cry, the second unfortunately suffers from sequel syndrome. I do still greatly appreciate the movie however, since it brings America Ferrara, Blake Lively, Amer Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel together in one place. Here comes my personal discussion of the movie, which is full of SPOILERS. So don’t read on if you care about this movie (why would you, again?).
The movie begins with all the girls off at college. Amber Tamblyn goes to NYU, and they’ve styled her kind of like a crazy fake hipster? Alexis Bledel is at R.I.S.D. Blake Lively gets a sports scholarship to Brown (huh? people at Brown play sports?). America Ferrara ends up at Yale studying… stage managing? I’m not sure, but she’s backstage in a theater with a headset a lot and doesn’t seem to have any real academic classes. Stage managing is a real good use of a Yale education, guys.
They come back for summer to discuss exchanging the pants, something they seem to be growing up and away from, and the rest of the movie follows their first summer after college where they totes learn to live, love, and believe in themselves. Highlights (in no particular order):
- Alexis Bledel, separated from hot Greek lover Kostas, meets a nude model, Leo, in her figure drawing class, who turns out to be a total art school slut and believes in living a polyamorous life. Leo is totally dreamy, loves to cook with lots of different colored bell peppers, and makes bad art that she thinks is really bold and daring and original. But she dumps him anyways because she’s a prude.
- Amber Tamblyn works at Two Boots Video. And gets fired!!!!
- Amber Tamblyn has a pregnancy scare right after losing her virginity to another virgin, her boyfriend from the previous movie, Brian. Since they were both virgins and STDs aren’t an issue, I’m not sure why she didn’t just take the morning after pill and just avoid the whole drama.
- Blake Lively meets her grandmother, who has a southern accent and is full of common sense old folks wisdom.
- Blake Lively gets really emo about these ancient bones she finds in an archaeological site she goes to work on in Turkey and it reminds her of her dead mother?
- America Ferrara does Shakespeare, acting at about the level of regional youth theater, but in the context of the movie, she’s a total amazing show stopping prodigy.
- America Ferrara’s love interest looks like an an ugly Heath Ledger combined with Keanu Reeves from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
- Effie runs off to Greece and sleeps with all their boyfriends. Why she is a weird little bitch and can’t seem to get it together and grow up is never explained.
- America Ferrara jumps off a cliff into the ocean in Greece and makes a big splash.
- The pants get lost. Free at last from the tyrannous power of the pants that can fit everyone, all the girls learn that their fates and destinies are now in their hands and watch the sun set in Santorini.
Seriously, guys, the movie may have been mildly disappointing, but sneak a flask into the movie theater and you’ll have a good time. I mean, it’s about magic pants. My friend Ben liveblogged the whole thing via Twitter and I think it pretty accurately describes the experience.
benbenbenben Pants! Pants! Pants!
benbenbenben I cant believe charlie got tibby pregnant
benbenbenben Leo is obama
benbenbenben so much wing jewelry!
benbenbenben Blake is totally in touch with iraq
benbenbenben Ugly heath ledger asked her out!
benbenbenben Lena needs pants right away.
benbenbenben WERQ PANTS
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oh man, the pants get lost? Lame. I was hoping this would be a trilogy.
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Colin reply on August 7, 2008:
ME TOO! I was way disappointed to see it definitely come to a close. My favorite exclamation while watching was in the beginning, as the opening credits rolled and the camera panned over the pants, this girl sighed “God! It’s been too long!”
Granted all the actresses now all have real careers… so I’m sure they are dunzo with it.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Aren’t these pants technically their own character by now? If so, shouldn’t we wait to see the corpse (i.e., box office numbers) before declaring them dead? It sounds like they’re just lost for now and waiting to be found by other sisters (i.e., no-name actresses).
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