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These Pants were made for walking: from left, Ferrera, Tamblyn, Bledeland lively.The pants are magical, the characters are real8y Alison BilltnorMOTE over, you Ya-Yas. The ween crowd gets its own look at the divine sscrets of sisterhood in the screen verson of Ann Bra share s’ fiercely loved first novel.White fans of the took oil find tome elements abbreviated — the first three minutes skim over departing dads and suicidal moms — the movte doss manage to hang onto the book's real, recognisable characters and big-hearted feel.This particular sisterhood is male up of four very different 16-yearolds whoVe known each other forever. (Their mothers attended the same prenatal aerobics class.)Shy Lena (GUraare Girls' Alexis Bteds I), smart, fei sty Carmsn(Am?rica Fen rera of Real Women Have Curves), wild Bridget (the aptly namsd Blake Lively) and morose, sarcastic Tibby(/olt;irto//ln:diiid’s Amber Tamblyn) are about to split up for the summer when they come across a psir of thrift-shop Levi’s, whoa? quasi-mystical nature is immediately revested by the fact that they mate everyone’s butt look good.The frtends decide to keep in touch by asnding the .ieans from one girl to the next, along with sup port.advioeanda oertainamountoftalkaboutcute boys.Lena is vi siting her grsndpsrentson the i dand of Santorini, whichgi ves her absolutely the be st loca-ton shoot (bite water and whitewashed hou ass. all sparkling in the Mediterranean sun) but also the weatest storyline (a star-crossed Greek romance wthadi shy fisherman).Stay-at-home Tbbyis sullenly stocking shelves st a Wal-Mart-ish chain. She is planning a docu-MovieReview-The Sisterhood of the Travel ling Pants■ Stain ng Alsis Biotet and Am dor Tamblyn■ Onen; today’k’k’k out ol livementary film about the total lameness of middle-cla ss Americanlife when ste is brought up short by the 12-yeanold chatterbox who lives nearby.Meanwhile, Carmen is journeying to South Carolina to visit her nice but weak father (Bradley Whitford), who has neglected to mention his new Stepford-like stepfamily. Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baia, California, recklessly intent on getting her own way, even if that means an illicit romance with an older counsellor.Director Ken Kwapis has a chequered career involving good TV (Larry Sanders, Freaks and Geeks, Malcolm in the Miidle and The Op.ee) and bad movies ( Dunstan Cheeks to and The Beautician and the Beast).He has some trouble handling the mechanics of four mteriocking storylines, buthe's good with individual scenes. With the help of Delia Ephron and El cab? th Chandl er's sketchy but accessible screen-play and nice work from the young actors, the film achieves maximum amounts of emotional wallop without too much obvious sentimentality. The Sisterhood also goes beyond you-go-girl cltetes to an affectionate depiction of ordinary,everyday teen behaviour.
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