Sex and the City - The Movie (Special Edition) DVD cover

Languages and Audio

Like every hip, modern-day movie about hip, modern-day women, there's a pretty heavy emphasis on soundtrack here. Musical montages and faux hip-hop tracks by Fergie abound throughout the runtime, and they're the only elements of the sound mix likely to push your speakers. Otherwise, this is a fairly dialogue driven affair, with very little in the way of directional audio or pronounced ambient sound. Come for the gabbing and whining and sobbing and laughing, but don't expect much more.

Score: 7 out of 10

Extras and Packaging

Not very much with regard to the extras, even in this two-disc extended edition. For the second disc, one might expect a bit more of a retrospective, but alas, just the basics are here to be found:

* Extended Cut
* Commentary by Director Michael Patrick King
* A Conversation with Parker and King
* The Fabulous Fashion of Sex and the City
* Fergie in the Studio
* Additional Scenes

First off, the extended cut really isn't all that extended, as if the already too-long movie needed to be any longer. There are a few more beats in the montages and an extra scene here and there, but nothing in the way of completely excised plot-lines or additional, worthwhile character development. The commentary and the conversation go hand-in-hand discussing the show, and while the commentary is a bit more singular to the movie – and does a fairly decent job at connecting the film to the series – the conversation is the only real nostalgia piece here. King and Parker take a half-hour to talk about the show and it's evolution throughout the seasons and reveal a bit about the process of deciding upon how to execute the program as a movie. Fans are likely to find this more worthwhile and watchable than the commentary, and rightfully so, given that it covers all the right bases in must less time.

The fashion featurette runs about twenty minutes and highlights all the various costumes and designers involved in the making of the film and series. The wardrobe department is an insane storage room of (presumably) the hottest in modern fashion – not that this viewer would be able to identify any of it. The feature also explores the relationship between the characters and their clothes and how each has a style all their own. It's a nice inclusion for the shopaholics and die-hard fans. And lastly, Fergie in the studio is just that – Fergie in the studio – and at two minutes in length, about as interesting.