SnoopyStyle Tibby (Amber Tamblyn), Lena (Alexis Bledel), Carmen (America Ferrera), and Bridget (Blake Lively) are lifelong friends from birth. They find a second-hand pair of jeans that magically fit them all. They are separating for the summer but vows to stay connected by sharing the magic pants. Lena has a Greek holiday with her Greek relatives. Bridget misses her dead mom and is away at soccer camp. Carmen is meeting up with her dad (Bradley Whitford) but he surprises her with a wedding to girlfriend (Nancy Travis). Tibby is stuck working the summer and finds Bailey (Jenna Boyd) passed out in the aisle.The biggest fundamental problem for this movie is that the girls spend most of the movie apart. The point of these types of movies is for the group to develop chemistry together. This one assumes the chemistry and split the girls up. There is a reason why the best story is Tibby and Bailey. They are actually allowed to build up a relationship. Lena's story probably the weakest. It's way too light like a frivolous Greek holiday movie. The biggest asset in the movie are the four girls plus Jenna Boyd. They are all charming. They are all compelling actresses. Each one has something to contribute to the movie. The best scenes occur when the girls have a heart felt one on one. All in all, this is a sweet melodrama.

tapio_hietamaki Four high school girls share a bond of friendship so profound that it pains them to spend time apart, but this summer they have places to go. They recount their experiences in handwritten letters and take turns wearing a specific pair of jeans that remind them of each other.The film consist of the differing stories of the four girls. Each story takes a turn when it is time to wear the magic jeans. The stories are brief but delightful, dealing with themes of family (and broken families), illness and teenage crushes. The main actors are all very successful (and are known from TV dramas such as Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl and Joan of Arcadia).Warning -- while light-hearted, the film is also very touching at times and touches on deeper themes such as death of loved ones and sexuality.

Claudio Carvalho Tibby Tomko-Rollins (Amber Tamblyn), Lena Kaligaris (Alexis Bledel), Carmen Lowell (America Ferrera) and Bridget Vreeland (Blake Lively) are best friends since they were children. In the beginning of their summer vacations, they find a pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly; they decide to share the pants as a magic symbol of their friendship and form a sisterhood with a manifesto of ten rules. Bridget travels to a soccer camp in Mexico and she has a crush on the coach Eric (Mike Vogel), who is older than she. Lena visits her family in Greece and has a crush on the local fisherman Kostas (Michael Rady) and finds that there is a feud between their families. Carmen travels to South Caroline to spend the vacation with her father and she finds that he will marry the divorced Lydia Rodman (Nancy Travis). Tibby stays in town working in a department store to raise money to buy new equipment for her documentary and is befriended by the twelve year old Bailey (Jenna Boyd) that is very ill. After their vacations, they grow-up and their friendship remains solid as never."The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is a sweet tale of friendship, love and loss of four girlfriends. I saw the good sequel in a flight two days ago, and both movies are great. The chemistry among Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Blake Lively is amazing and they really seem to be close friends. The movie is delightful, the performances of the actresses are fantastic, but I particularly liked the dramatic and never corny relationship between Tibby and Bailey. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Quatro Amigas e um Jeans Viajante" ("Four Friends and a Traveling Jeans")

doctorsmoothlove In anticipation for the sequel, I decided to review the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants film. It has a 77% rating on Rottentomatoes.com and is frequently unavailable at my university movie center, so I predicted that I would enjoy it (despite my not being a typical audience). After viewing it, I can't recommend it. It's simply too generic. The film offers nothing that isn't widely present on Hallmark Channel or any generic female buddy movie. Though one of the four micro-stories presented is entertaining and somewhat original, the other three are clichéd and boring.The film's protagonists are four young women who are "BFF's" in contemporary vernacular. They engage in pre-sorority bonding activities and giggle profusely. In one of their bonding sessions, they wander into a store and discover a pair of pants which "magically fits all of us." They attribute this uncanny ability to the pants' inherent magical properties. The group decides to mail the pants to each other for a week at a time to share their magical power. The story then splits into four narratives. The first girl, Lena, travels to Greece to spend a summer with her grandparents. The second, Bridget, goes to a Mexican soccer camp. The first two girls meet a boy and fall in love. In Lena's story, there is a Romeo and Juliet backdrop to her doomed romance. She falls for fisherman Kostas whose grandfather lied to Lena's "papi." They are together at the end, but not after much parental berating. Strangely, Kostas parents don't seem to care about his relationship with Lena (they have no screen presence, so I guess they don't mind). Bridget becomes infatuated with a camp counselor and it is implied that they have sex (on a beach of all places). Of course, by the film's end, the counselor is in love with Bridget but she has lost interest in him.The remaining two stories are not romances, but save the last one, the third story is as predictable as the approaching night. Carmen is a Puerto Rican girl who lives with her mother. She has a loving but distant relationship with her father. She decides to visit him over the summer and is surprised to discover that he has a new family. His wife-to-be is overbearing and stereotypically spoiled. The children are interchangeable and unimportant to the story. Can you guess what's going to happen to Carmen? Yea, it isn't hard to realize how this story unravels. The final story is the much better than the previous three. It involves the tomboy Tibby as she attempts to film a documentary and survive her summer job. One day at work she meets a young girl named Bailey who becomes her producer, much to Tibby's dismay. Bailey and Tibby interview several people about their happiness in their current lives. The most prominent person interviewed is a Dungeons and Dragons arcade player, Brian, they meet at a gas station. Brian tells them about the game's goals and programming. It's interesting. I was aware that it operated using laser disc technology (for the in-game movies called FMVs) but I never got a chance to play the game. Brian and Tibby bond in their shared "nerd" status. Director Ken Kwapis and screenwriter Delia Ephron tie all stories with Carmen's father's wedding. All the girls return home and help Carmen overcome her bitterness and attend the ceremony. The other method of story-sewing is Bailey's convenient illness which brings the other girls to Tibby's side. Each culminating scene in the stories occurs when the character is wearing the pants or involved with them in some way. There aren't many problems with the first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie save its tired plot. You won't hate this film because there is no reason to specifically hate it. Watching the movie is like the same cup of coffee you order every morning. You don't give it additional thought because it's become perfunctory to drink it. The pants don't ameliorate this problem either. They don't' seem to possess any other-worldly power. The film presents them as a good-luck charm rather than a genuinely important item. They function as a silent protagonist, like the hero of many role-playing video games. Like an RPG hero, the pants resolve other's conflicts than experiencing any developments themselves. By the way, silent protagonists aren't popular anymore.The film looks very good. The backgrounds are scenic and offer something to admire when you become of the film's deliberate attempt to produce tears. Lena's vacation in Greece is quite memorable. Bridget's Mexican trip also looks nice. Many scenes occur during sunset and the lighting embeds the image into your mind. I remember these images more than the story, which is unfortunate. I wish the good cinematography would have accented the character's situation but it didn't. I've seen the romantic sunset image too many times, I guess.The movie isn't worth a viewing if you don't have plans to see its (better) sequel. There's nothing new here. If you've read a drug-store romance novel or been around middle school (usually female) drama, then you've watched it. If you don't have any experiences like that, check the IMDb.com profile. Final Consensus: ** out of ****