"I Watched 146 Minutes of Sex and the City 2 and All I Got Was This Religious Fundamentalism"
Unabashedly the greatest movie review ever written. It doesn’t matter if (like me) you haven’t ever seen even a minute of Sex and the City—the sheer foam-at-the-mouth loathing of the entire ethos of the franchise is enough to have you howling laughing. Stranger writer Lindy West has out-done herself, surely peaking early in her career and doomed forever to languish beneath the shadow of this piece of withering hatred.
You doubt it? Here’s my single favorite line: “SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled cunt like it’s my job—and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car.”
Read on.
(PS: This post has allowed me to make use of tags that I never thought would be used again. My day is complete.)
Update via The Stranger:
Movie|Line has gathered and ranked The 9 Most Scathing Critical Responses to Sex and the City 2—and Lindy West’s Pulitzer-worthy screed tops the list.