To be fair, "Sex & the City" has always been about the ladies. Getting angry at the new trailer for the sequel to the 2008 movie which was itself spun off of the HBO series for not catering to guys is kind of like getting angry at the sun for setting every day. These are just established facts. Day turns into night and "Sex & the City" is geared towards a female audience. Plus: the sequel opens on May 30, opposite video game adaptation "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." It's not like us dudes won't have anything to do that day.
That said, I'd like to see "Sex & the City 3" go for a wider audience. The coming sequel tells a destination story: the ladies head to Abu Dhabi on the eve of Carrie Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker) wedding. Since we've already jumped that particular shark, I've come up with a few suggestions the brainstormers might want to keep in mind when they start thinking about where to send the New York City-based foursome in the third film outing.
An Undersea City
I'm not saying the gals should go to the Lost City of Atlantis... but I'm not saying they shouldn't either. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda -- boy am I relieved that I had to look that up -- embark on a submarine voyage, a gift from Mr. Big to give them a break from their crazy lives at home. Big's thoughtful gesture turns into a nightmare when the sub springs a leak. All seems lost... until the ship's captain spots some kind of settlement on the ocean floor. With no other options, the sub docks and... well I won't spoil everything.
Outer Space
Maybe we save this for the fourth movie, since commercial flights outside the Earth's atmosphere may well be an option by then. The ladies settle in for a commuter flight aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. They arrive at the newly established moon base for a tour... only to find that the crew there has been brutally slaughtered by something unspeakable. It may be space, but we'll definitely hear them scream.
A Deserted Island... Or Is It?
The ladies are on their way back from Australia aboard Oceanic Flight 815 when... yeah, you know how this ends. The NYC-based foursome ends up LOST on an island, where they are pursued by pandas, a ragtag group of locals whom they come to refer to as The Separates and a mysterious cloud of white fog.
Post-Apocalypse
It's just a quiet Saturday morning in New York City... when all of a sudden there's a bright flash on the horizon and the whole world goes to crap. Nobody knows who pressed the button first, but as the world's nuclear weapon stores are emptied, the human race enters a new age: the post-apocalypse. Hearing that there's still safe haven to be found on the west coast -- Mr. Big was out there, and he's intact and waiting in a shelter -- Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte set out on The Long Road, struggling on foot across the once-great nation in the hopes that a better life awaits at the end of their journey.
Hell
Props to MTV Newsroom editor Kyle Anderson for this golden bit of inspiration. The ladies, in their endless pursuit to stay young and sexy in New York City, trade their eternal souls for just that in an ill-advised deal with the devil. But when the lord of the underworld comes to collect early, the foursome find themselves in the worst place imaginable: Hell. Can they escape eternal damnation? Will they find a loophole in the contract they so stupidly signed? Who will sacrifice herself to save the rest? You'll have to wait for "Sex & the City 3: Cougars Go To Hell" to find out!!!
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