” The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″

“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″
Opens: Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Director: Sanaa Hamri
MPAA: PG-13
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively

Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget are back again after three years of rotating the “Magic Pants.” They have all graduated from high school and are now off to college. With each girl following her own distinct interests, Carmen is at Yale, Tibby is in film school at NYU, Bridget’s on soccer scholarship at Brown, and Lena is studying art at Rhode Island School of Design. It is always a nice transition to the real world when your friends get into prestigious programs at top-notch schools;)

After one year at college, Carmen (America Ferrera) is excited to come home and be with her buddies. Her mom is newly married, expecting a baby, and moving which leaves Carmen a bit lost and adds to her sour attitude. I mean really what is with the big chip on her shoulder? She does have one reason to be disappointed. After clearing her summer schedule, she finds that Bridget is going to Turkey on an archaeological dig, Tibby has to stay at NYU to finish an incomplete film assignment, and Lena is taking summer classes. With this discovery, Carmen decides to take up an offer to study theater in Vermont. Her plans are to get more experience behide the scenes but after an impromptu audition she is cast in a principal role of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale.” Carmen’s acting abilities are directly proportional to her ever growning crush on her leading man. Carmen also finds out that some friends are not worth having in your life.

Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) has a steady relationship with her man Brian, and they celebrate their 10 month anniversary with a night of …. A terrible mishap causes a preggers scare, which causes Tibby to run from her relationship with Brian. Everywhere she goes she sees screaming babies and weary mothers.
Bridget (Blake Lively) is having an interesting summer unearthing skeletons in Turkey. This causes her to unearth her own unresolved feelings surrounding her mother’s death and sickness. Before leaving for Turkey, she finds dozens of letters written to her by her grandmother that her father had hidden. Eventually she leaves Turkey and stops by Alabama to meet her grandmother, Greta (Blythe Danner), and leaves with a better understanding of the dynamics between her father, mother and grandmother. Her relationship with her father is on the mends.

Lena (Aleix Bledel) travels to Greece to attend a funeral and meets her former love’s (Kostos) new wife. Broken-hearted, she moves forward by taking her art to the next level. She finds a new love interest in the real life model from her class, and attempts to forget Kostos. However, Kostos shows up at Lena’s school and shares that his marriage was loveless, based on a lie, and annulled. Lena, however, can’t see where they can pick up from there.

Well, as fate would have it the, “Magic Pants” have been nabbed by Lena’s jealous sister, Effie. I spent the majority of the time watching Effie and trying to decide if it was Selena Gomez from “Wizards of Waverly Place,” but it is a young star named Lucy Hale. (I digressed) Effie is off to Greece with the pants and then the pants get lost, blown away, stolen or…who knows.

The missing “Magic Pants” cause all four girls to come together again in Greece. Well, I don’t want to give it all away, but all four young women find exactly what they are looking for despite the “Magic Pants”.

“The Sisterhood to the Traveling Pants 2″ really showcases these four young actresses amazing acting abilities. I have seen some really bad Chick Flicks this summer as the “List” continues to grow, but Sisterhood-2 is definitely not one of them! Enjoy!

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