Ralph's Movie Reviews: THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS

Friday, June 17, 2005

THE SISTERHOOD
OF THE TRAVELING PANTS

Coming of age

BACKGROUND
Adapted from a bestselling novel by Ann Brashares that proved to be very popular with millions of young women.

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Amber Tamblyn: Tibby, an amateur filmmaker
Alexis Bledel: Lena, the shy artistic one who's off to visit her grandparents in Greece
Blake Lively: Bridget, a star athlete attending soccer camp in Mexico
America Ferrera: Carmen, who’s planning on spending the summer with her dad

REVIEW
Definitely a great movie for the target audience (pre-teen and adolescent girls) but somewhat difficult for the rest of us to sit through. The adventures of four friends during one summer in their lives (when they are all of seventeen) will have little interest to anyone much older than that.

CLASSIFICATION

for thematic elements, some sensuality and language.

P.S.
The movie could almost qualify as a travelogue with great shots of the Greek island of Santorini and the beaches of Baja, Mexico.

No comments:

Post a Comment

my ratings system

I've always thought that telling too much about a movie or warning someone about a "twist" at the end deprives the person the pleasure of seeing it as it unfolds, so I don’t do it. You may not always agree with my rating of course, but at least it is an unbiased opinion unlike some of the full time professional reviewers who are on the studio’s payroll.

A few movies you won’t see any review from me:

Scary movies: I’m the world’s biggest chicken and just hate getting the crap scared out of me. I can handle an unexpected door slam, that kind of thing, but a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat…not for me. Sorry.
Movies geared to the young teen and pre-teen crowd with dialog comprising mostly of crude remarks, awful jokes and lots of rude, socially unacceptable body noises. "The Spy that Shagged Me" comes to mind. (I wonder if the kids know what the British verb to shag someone really means? They probably do; I bet you it’s the parents who haven’t a clue).
Sometimes Hollywood gets on a roll and they produce a series of movies that are all very much alike. For example movies about the CIA were very popular and so we had The Bourne Identity and Bad Company and The Sum of All Fears. They all had the same basic theme and it becomes repetitive. I will see some, but not all of them.

FYI this is my rating system:

0 stars = Terrible: so bad it’s not worth talking about; in fact, I’d pay you not to go
= Lousy: I actually got up and walked out before the end it was just that bad (no kidding)
= Not so good: thought about walking out but hung in just in case it got better (but it didn’t)
= A so-so good movie: I enjoyed it somewhat but wasn’t all that crazy about it
= A really good movie: I recommend seeing it
= An excellent movie you just got to see! I suggest you put it on your "To Do List" it’s that good.

some favourite websites

For those into it, Nitpickers at

has more movie mistakes than you could ever imagine. My contributions can be seen if you check out the Nitpickers Registry and click on the link Nitpickers Listed by Nitpicker Number, select the group 45,401 - 45,500 and drill down to number 45411. Although I have 56 nitpicks to my credit, some have almost 2,000. You wonder sometimes where they find the time to do it.