The Girls Are Back in Town/ MANOHLA DARGIS

Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw in New Line Cinema's "Sex and the City".

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/movies/30sex.html?8mu&emc=mua1

A little Botox goes a long way in “Sex and the City,” but a little decent writing would have gone even further. A dumpy big-screen makeover of that much-adored small-screen delight, the movie was written and directed by Michael Patrick King, one of the guiding lights and bright wits of the original series, based on Candace Bushnell’s newspaper columns and subsequent book. Once again, Sarah Jessica ParkerNew York has stepped into the dizzyingly high heels of Carrie Bradshaw, that postmodern Lorelei Lee — a hardly working writer with a passion for men and Manolos — but this time she’s taken a terrible tumble…..