It’s not a good sign when sites like Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like A Horse start to appear near the premier of your TV to Movie HBO series, but yet they are useful harbingers of things to come. The first warning sign, it was soon followed by a piece from the New York Time, The Girls Are Back in Town, which calls the movie a “terrible tumble:”

The show is just too old to go on

“Sex and the City” delivered the television goods for six seasons, no small thing in the pop culture annals. That should have been enough or at least plenty for all concerned, but Ms. Parker apparently felt compelled to go big screen, making good on a project that had started to come together in 2004, only to fall apart over money issues and Ms. Cattrall’s reluctance to climb aboard. I wish Ms. Parker had let that bee in her bonnet go silent, because the movie that she and Mr. King have come up with is the pits, a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow — and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong — addendum to a show that had, over the years, evolved and expanded in surprising ways.

Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Kim Cattrall, the movie adaptation Sex and the City is rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language. On Metacritic, it has achived a low 54% from critics, and 46% from fans. My recommendation? Find a classic romance.

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