 Two weeks of "tentpole" movies will be challenged by more specialized films this weekend, with one aimed primarily at teenaged girls, another at teenaged boys, and a third at adults. For the girls, there's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, directed by a man, Ken Kwapis. (It should be explained that it concerns what happens when a group of teen girlfriends discover a pair of pants that fits each, then agree to wear them for a week and write to each other about their experience. "In a season of overhyped blockbusters, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a genuine sleeper that deserves to find an audience," writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times describes the film as "a real pleasure, a big-hearted movie where a group of gifted actresses find opportunities most younger movie stars can only dream about." Another male reviewer, Scott Moore of the Washington Post, writes that the movie "is supposed to be a teenage chick flick, but I have to confess that at the emotional high point, a tear formed in the eye of this middle-aged man (who, of course, wiped it away before anyone else could notice)." Female reviewer Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer asks rhetorically, "What's not to like about a movie that warmly insists size doesn't matter, but that soul and friendship do?" And another female reviewer, Carina Chocana of the Los Angeles Times, describes it as "the girly equivalent of a midsummer Bruckheimer extravaganza -- a roller-coaster ride to the edge of total (emotional, natch) devastation that makes the happy ending that much more reassuring and cozy." |
