by Eilidh Clark

Created on: December 08, 2009

Sex and The City was one of my favourite shows during the years it was on. I'll even admit I cried a little when it ended - Carrie and the others had their happy endings, and that was them saying goodbye. Then came the rumours of a movie, and oddly I wasn't sure about it. I wasn't sure it would work. But lo and behold, the movie was made. And I did want to see it of course, despite being unsure. I didn't go to see it in the cinema, and I managed to avoid hearing about the story. Then I was given it on DVD as a present.

Sex and The City: The Movie features the same characters we know and love from the TV show: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristen Davis) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall), along with their men - notably Carrie's Big (Chris Noth) - who we now know is called John. The movie picks up in real time, 3 years on from the end of the TV show. Charlotte and Harry have their adopted daughter, Samantha is living in LA with Smith, Miranda and Steve's marriage has got a bit routine, and Carrie and Big are flat-hunting. I want to do my best not to divulge any major story points, but some may be inevitable, and for that I apologise.

The girls as we see them now are a world away from how they were at the start of the TV series. This is ten years on, and now they are settled in grown up relationships and not chasing men all over Manhattan. Someone once observed to me that Carrie settling down with Big went against everything the show had stood for - single women having fun and not needing a man. But I disagree - I think the show was about strong single women having fun, but always hoping for the happy ever after.

Some critics have said that the movie plays just like an extended episode of the TV series, but I disagree. Of course those of us who watched the series know the backstory to these characters, but I think the movie could work as a standalone story. I think it is more than a long episode of the show.

One important aspect of the TV show and now the movie is female friendship. These four women have been through thick and thin together for 20 years (and apparently we see them in the 1980s in the second, upcoming movie), and there is no love greater than theirs. They would do anything to help each other out, and will always be there when you need them. One very short moment in the movie encapsulated this perfectly for me, and it made me well up. After Big has hurt Carrie beyond measure, she is shouting at him in the street, with

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