It's a relief to go to the movies and see teenage girls act like teenage girls, not adult women like teenage girls. In "Sisterhood in Travel Pants 2", there is no grunting of shoes and no covetousness of "it" handbags. While I'm not unilaterally opposed to such things (I've always known coO/shoe or two on my day), in the movie I prefer their accessory narratives, not its pillars, "Traveling Sister Pants 2", followed by similarly named 2005 features – the teen plot itself is satisfactory.
A young woman has sex for the first time and the condom is broken: Is she pregnant? Another person is interested in archaeology and has the opportunity to spend a summer in Turkey. But she was a little too narcissistic to see that the skulls she had excavated were more than just bones: she didn't realize that these skulls were the remains of real people who had problems and desires, and were still far from her. When you watch movies at the age of 20, those questions that seem trivial. But when you actually live in their lives, they're not, and Amber Tamblyn and her four young actresses — Sanaa Hamri, Sanaa Hamri, Ferreira usa and Blake Clevely — gave them the right weight. It's a modern version of "Photographs of Women", built around the difficulties and desires of women in their daily lives (or less commonly), and its goals are amazing. Face it: There are harsher sentences in life, in movies, than watching attractive young people stay for two hours and take a moment to worry about their problems instead of our own.
You don't need to see the gist of this from the first "Traveling Pants" movie, although the pants themselves do need a little explanation: Lena (Bledel), Carmen (Ferreira), Tamblyn and Brigitte (Lively) are four friends to get along with, and they are even able to share a pair of jeans, decorated with patches and embroideries, and talk about their respective lives. We're told that jeans are for everyone, "perfect", which is an extended metaphor, if not real trousers: I doubt a pair of jeans would fit all these women perfectly, as they represent a variety of body types, but at least they are not all slim twigs. When these four young women live in different directions, they connect them: they send jeans around, making them feel connected to each other, even if they are far away.
Admittedly, the pants are quite ridiculous, and the ending of the film shows that the filmmakers, even the characters, know this. (Both films are based on Ann Brashares' young adult novels.) At this point, calling these four young women "teenagers" can make them a little uneasy: In Travel Pants 2, they all completed their first year of college, leaving them on the brink of adulthood. Still, their lives were so unsettling that they hadn't fully formed, and it was clear they couldn't leave an experience yet: Lena, the art, had just finished her first year at the Rhode Island School of Design, though she had also made her good looking ex, the case (Michael Reddy), an Adonis-like model in the anthropoke class (by Jesse Williams) and not an unpopular pastime. Carmen, a sensitive, intelligent Yale student, decided to be at the summer theater festival in Vermont, but even the young handsome actor she met (by Tom Wisdom) could shift her from the vague anxiety she had about her family life, and she felt and crawled away from herself and her three best girlfriends. Bridget, the athleticist, was still in pain when her mother died four years ago, eager to reconnect with her estranged grandmother. Tibby studied at New York University, became a filmmaker, worked in a boring video store, and she had some unsolved feelings about her sweet boyfriend, Brian (Reinadorin), who looked so perfect that it couldn't possibly be true.
In the summer, these young women are connected through pants and cell phones, but for the most part, they have to solve their own problems on their own. They'll know that even when they're older and need to be separated in some way, they can depend on each other – but it's not a movie and the ending will bring any earth-shattering revelations. Pleasant is what it takes to see the characters navigate their own rocky paths, and it doesn't hurt the actors here who are mostly charming: Tamblyn, in particular, a wayward punkette in a variety of cheap costumes, is a snappy presence that Ferreira can almost get alone to lean on her low-key smile.
Director Hamri (who created the delightful and intelligent interracial romance "New Thing" in 2006), screenwriter Elizabeth Chandler sometimes abandons some crossover plot, but the film's open-mindedness makes up for its flaws.