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Originally Posted by OTW
I couldn't convince the BF to go see Traveling Pants 2, but maybe I can get him to see this one with me.
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I liked Traveling Pants 2 but the first one was a *lot* better. At no point in the second movie did I get a sincere sisterly vibe from all four of them at the same time. They just gave each girl her own subplot and threw them together at the end.
The main reason the movies work at all is because America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn are so damn talented. The scenes in the first one where Carmen and Tibby would totally get on each other's nerves, then come back and love each other to pieces were dead on. As a guy I certainly appreciate Blake Lively but there's also something deeply annoying about her. And the whole Lena / Costas subplot is basically just a Harlequin Romance. It was only interesting to the extent that it was about Lena's journey toward being a woman, and that part got thrown out in the second movie.
But I can watch the first one over and over. It's the best movie about a group of young women that's come out in, I dunno, like forever...
