Rolling Stone: Whatever goodwill the film generates comes from celebrating friendship among women. After a promising start with Carrie (the sparkling, scrappy Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris Noth) enduring the "terrible twos" of their marriage, sex-crazed Samantha (Kim Cattrall) packs off the girls, including newly unemployed lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and harried mother of two Charlotte (Kristin Davis), for a freebie week in beautiful, buttoned-down Abu Dhabi
