When the producers of Sex and the City said that they were making a movie version of the successful TV series, my days of anticipation began...and it is finally here! It's become the most anticipated movie of the year. Unfortunately, the movie was not going to be released worldwide but a city at a time and it's yet to come to Australia. But very soon now, if you haven't heard, the release date is 6 June 2008.

To whet your appetite, here is a clippet of what LAtimes.com's Carina Chocano, Times Movie Critic, had to say:

"IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to talk about the new“Sex and the City” movie without first mentioning "Sex and the City," the HBO series; or the rabid fan devotion it enjoyed; or the equally fervent antipathy (female and male) it inspired on socio-political grounds (sort of like the late-'90s equivalent of not letting your daughter play with Barbies); or the recently much-affirmed straight-male aversion to the series, predicated on cooties. In fact, the film arrives shrouded in such a fog of expectation, preconception, anticipation and (now with more post-Hillary bite!) gender bias that it's hard to see -- or write about -- the movie for the trees.

Which is too bad, because Michael Patrick King, who executive produced the show (with series creator Darren Star) and wrote and directed the movie, has done some brave, surprising things with it, mining territory that's been all but abandoned by Hollywood. It's hard, in fact, to think of any other recent examples of movies that explore the complicated emotional lives of characters comically without stooping to adolescent silliness or that are willing to go to such dark places while remaining a comedy in the Shakespearean sense -- all's well that ends well."