It’s Sex and the City opening day and, well… the reviews are a mixed bag. Check out some of the Sex and the City movie reviews:

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times:
“A little Botox goes a long way in Sex and the City, but a little decent writing would have gone even further.” She also says Sex and the City “is the pits, a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow — and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong — addendum to a show that had, over the years, evolved and expanded in surprising ways.”

Claudia Puig, USA Today:
“Amid the style, sass and sexiness is plenty of sentimentality, especially at the satisfying conclusion.”

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times:
“Can’t rightly be called a romantic comedy in the dismal, contemporary sense, though it is at times romantic and is consistently very funny. It’s also emotionally realistic, even brutal.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times:
“Here is a 145-minute movie containing one (1) line of truly witty dialogue: ‘Her 40s is the last age at which a bride can be photographed without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext.’”

David Edelstein, New York Magazine:
“Sex and the City: The Motion Picture (not the actual title) is a joyful wallow. And it’s more: In this summer of do-overs (The Incredible Hulk, a new Batman versus a new Joker), it’s what the series finale should have been.”

Rex Reed, New York Observer:
“Bottom line: a provocative, groundbreaking TV series that worked in 30-minute segments has been bloated and padded into nearly two and a half hours of tedium and gratuitous product placement for everything from Vuitton to a new Mercedes-Benz GLK.”

James Berardinelli, ReelViews:
“For those who do not consider themselves to be among the Sex and the City faithful, this is a painful experience, perhaps the longest 148 minutes likely to be spent in a movie theater this year. Watching grass grow is more dramatically satisfying.”

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
“This movie provides no good reasons to revisit Sex and the City, except to fulfill fans’ desires for one more for the road and add millions to Time Warner’s coffers. Be careful what you wish for.”

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly:
“A movie that taps directly back into the show’s primal appeal, which is the sweet, sad, saucy delight of sharing these women’s company.“

The bottom line on Sex and the City reviews? Metacritic has a 53 (out of 100) average review among 32 film critic reviews and scored 4.4 out of 10 among the 17 site visitors who rated the film.