Python Hyena Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005): Dir: Ken Kwapis / Cast: Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Bradley Whitford: Extraordinary teen drama about the bonds of friendship. Four girls are about to go separate ways this summer yet during a shopping spree they discover that a single pair of pants fits them all so they decide to mail them to each other throughout the summer. Alexis Bledel visits grandparents in Greece and is romanced by a fisherman whose family name is cursed by her family. Amber Tamblyn remains home working at the supermarket where she hopes to establish herself as a documentary filmmaker. America Ferrera visits the father she only sees twice a year only to learn that he is engaged and hasn't time for her. Blake Lively goes to soccer camp and pursues the male coach. Bradley Whitford plays the absent father of one of the girls and he is getting married. His daughter becomes distant over the neglect. Directed by Ken Kwapis with great location shots in variety form depending upon where each girl has departed too. This is one of his very best films and an improvement over the likes of Dunston Checks In and The Beautician and the Beast. Easily one of the best teen oriented films of the year and a must-see for the intended audience. The pants represent the friendships that go through much and still survive the summer. Score: 10 / 10

jonnybe123 I watched this movie with my girlfriend who was forced to see it for a class. This terrible piece of film will make any overly sensitive, overly privileged, idiotic woman ovaries fill up with estrogen but anyone with real taste in movies will think its a joke. The movie follows four talentless women who are apparently friends but don't seem to be. This is because there character were simply not developed. This could have been because the movie was ripped from a book or it could have been because the story terrible. Who know.... Each girl represents some cliché stereotype of a young girl. You have the angsty teen girl, you have the minority, you have the prude and last but not least the slut. fascinating stuff. The movie revolves around how two of the girls story's end up with them meeting guys and falling "in love". The other one deals with an overly soppy story about the angsty teen starting care again because of a cancer girl. The final story that should have been far more developed was of the minority girls problems with her father. Overall you get a movie with four poorly written, predictable stories that are simply crammed into one movie. The stories should have been far more developed with the director expecting us to care about character we hardly know. Oh and the pants ... these magical pants that fit skinny and fat alike ... the WORST magical object in any movie I've EVER SEEN. I've got a magical shirt that fits anyone and changes colour .... well I've beat the pants already.STUPID MOVIE! If you've got two hours to kill you'd be better off lying in snow and losing a toe painfully to frostbite than watch this. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

tatin17 I had the fortune of watching the movie at home, this movie is embarrassing. The script is simple and predictable. The acting was extremely poor I guess that these actors will have a great future in the TV's soup operas. Apart from that, it is extremely cheap to use the clichés and topics of a romance in Greece, the cancer girl, the dead mother, the divorced parents... and everything for one purpose: tears... I am sorry, the effect in me was the opposite, and I just wanted to sleep... I hope that the books are better because the movie is terribly bad... I am surprised that in some of the reviews they actually tag the movie as "intelligent"... but WHAT? and WHO? the soccer girl?

jpschapira I don't know why, and many may not approve, but "Now and then" has always represented the ultimate girl 'life changing experience' movie, and "Stand by me" the same but with boys. I talk about boys and girls, not adolescents. Maybe I missed many movies, and maybe I watch "Now and then" today and my impression is completely different, but somehow a big change when being a kid strikes me harder than one when being a teenager; even more if the women those kids became are there to look back on it. In "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", a 'feel good movie' based on a popular novel, director Ken Kwapis has the intention of making the viewer believe that what his characters go through is sort of life changing. Four friends (there were four also in "Now and then"), after being their whole lives together, separate for one summer, and decide that a pair of pants that magically fits all of them, travels one week with each, carrying the experiences lived by everyone while having them. Carmen (America Ferrera) is kind of our official narrator, and she introduces us to her best friends, in something like this: "The shy and beautiful Lena (Alexis Bledel), the strong and overwhelming Bridget (Blake Lively), the unique Tibby (Amber Tamblyn), and me, the writer". These ARE stereotypes, the movie admits them and tries to take them as it can. In fact, this is what saves 'Sisterhood' from being a complete disaster.The girls go separate ways, they don't stick together; therefore, each of them 'grows' and 'changes' on their own. By having four different plot-lines to work, Kwapis and writers Delia Ephron ("You've Got Mail") and Elizabeth Chandler (the masterful "A little princess") are able to take a big breath. Since they don't have the four girls together (in fact, when they do cheesiness is extreme, unreal and sometimes unbearable), they work with their individual journeys.This is the saving grace of the movie precisely because we get to watch different aspects of it. If it weren't for the unquestionable excess of light, I could risk to tell you that the four stories are completely different. They are differently shot, written, acted and the only thing that unites them is the obligatory presence of the pants. Carmen goes through a family drama, with a dad that apparently doesn't care for her; Bridget lives a typical teenage forbidden romance; Lena does also, but her story is individually more complex; and Tibby continues to experience life as it is, shooting it for a documentary with the help of an unexpected friend played marvelously by Jenna Boyd. Some of the stories have nice moments (I liked Tibby's story the most because of its ordinary quality, free from any big or spectacular characteristic), or nice shots (Lena travels to Greece), even unexpected resolutions, but ultimately the problem of the film is that everything is automatic, with a predictable outcome. The tagline reads "Cry. Laugh. Share the pants". Kwapis is so immerse in making us believe that these girls go through a big change that this affects the whole movie. The score by Cliff Eidelman (he also did the score of "Now and then"; oh coincidence!) is unnecessarily moving and the performances are affected by this obligatory 'change' factor, that the movie reaffirms in the end by relieving the pants-only element that connected everything-of any responsibility. If anything, "The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants" is useful to reaffirm other things, whether good or bad. That Amber Tamblyn is more than Joan ("Joan of Arcadia") and Alexis Bledel is not more than Rory ("Gilmore Girls"); that America Ferrera is truly powerful and deserves the best, and Blake Lively is truly overwhelming and has versatility. There are fine male actors too, but this time it was about the girls. Oh, and they deserve that I watch the film's second part.