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Women Has Little to Like

Posted Sep 12, 08 3:56 PM CDT in Opinion,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – The modern update of 1930s socialite satire The Women is meeting scorn from critics. Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the big-name cast do their best, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone, but they struggle "with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century."

The razor-sharp characters have been "softened into chick-flick cliches," Rafer Guzman writes in Newsday, but the film "seems more retrograde than the original" despite the facelift for the 21st century. "Sex and the City: The Movie comes out on DVD in a week and a half," Elizabeth Weitzman writes in the New York Daily News. "Save your time, and your money, for the real thing."

Sources Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stone, Newsday, New York Daily News

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In this image released by Picturehouse Films, Meg Ryan, left, and Annette Bening are shown in a scene from "The Women".   (AP Photo)
Actress Meg Ryan attends a screening of "The Women" hosted by The Cinema Society in New York on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
From left, actors Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Mendes and Meg Ryan attend a screening of "The Women" hosted by The Cinema Society in New York on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
Actress Candice Bergen poses on the press line at the premiere of the feature film "The Women" in Los Angeles on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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