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Sisterhood Of
The Traveling Pants
Release Date:
June 1, 2005
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Ken Kwapis
Screenwriter: Delia Ephron, Elizabeth Chandler
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera,
Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, Bradley Whitford, Nancy Travis,
Rachel Ticotin, Jenna Boyd
Genre: Adventure,
Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG (for thematic elements, some
sensuality and language)
Official Website:
SisterhoodoftheTravelingPants.WarnerBros.com
Plot Summary: Based on
Ann Brashares' best-selling novel about a special 16th
summer in the lives of four lifelong friends. The film stars
Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrara and Blake
Lively as four 16-year-old best friends who are separated
for the first time. On a last shopping trip together, the
girls find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of
them perfectly and they decide to use these "magic" pants as
a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each girl
wearing the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her
before sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the
four friends still experience life, love and loss together
in a summer they'll never forget.
Review by
Peter Veugelaers
- Take a pot shot but be warned.
Some filmmakers appear to be overly,
perhaps unhealthily, interested in a teenager’s, usually
male, sexuality with a sleight of movies such as American Pie,
Road Trip, Sorority Boys,
and Porky’s, to name some, which exploit for
laughs their pubescent and adolescent interest in the
opposite sex. Sex sells, so the theory goes. They may be
good for a couple of hour’s laughs, but a few Hollywood
movies, usually independently produced, deal with
teenagers realistically and sensitively, and Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants attempts to be
one of those.Like the Brittney Spear’s vehicle
Crossroads before it Travelling Pants is
about the bond between young women which in these movies
is predictably inseparable. The four sixteen-year old
girlfriends try on the same pair of jeans in a clothing
store to discover an equal match fitting among
themselves. Realising something lucky about the jeans
they form a pact so each wear them can wear them for a
week when on their respective summer holidays. By
mailing the jeans to one another they have faith that
exciting miracles could happen.
Four stories are watchably
interwoven: Puerto-Rican Carmen (America Ferrera) is
headed for a rude awakening when she visits her Dad in a
newly developed area of suburban America. To her dismay,
Dad (Bradley Whitford, from The West Wing) has
changed his ways and is getting married to a new woman.
Budding filmmaker and writer Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is
working at a convenience store and baby sitting to
finance her hobby when she has a chance encounter with a
young girl (Jenna Boyd). Lena (Alexis Bledel), an
aspiring artist, meets up with her grandparents at a
Greek island where she meets a young fisherman who takes
an interest in her, but there has been a feud between
his family and Lena’s grandparent’s family, extending
decades. Bridget (Blake Lively) goes to soccer camp in
Mexico where she pursues one of the coaches for amorous
involvement.
Travelling Pants
wears these clichés importantly. For
all its trying, the movie is contrived and corny
although has a positive message for the target audience.
Best of the four young actors (who all do good work) is
America Ferrera as Carmen who is convincing with intense
emotion; the divorce of Carmen’s parents provides the
backbone for her response. Here’s a rare movie which
does not for a minute flippantly explore young
male-female relationships, self-image, and sexuality,
and is sometimes poignant, but which hasn’t quite nailed
it.
We would love to know what you think, sound off on the
movie message boards and let us know how you liked the movie!
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