The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

What makes it different from others?

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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!

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")

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.

I thought this movie was okay and just okay. It wasn't bad, that's not what I'm saying, I'm just saying it wasn't great.I know a lot of people who thought it was great so maybe my opinion is a bit harsh but I would only give this movie a five out of ten score here on IMDb. I thought the best thing about the movie was America Ferrera's (spelling?) performance, I thought she did a good job in her part and I think the people bashing her on the message boards for "how could she fit in those jeans?" are just mean, she's not even that fat to begin with! She was perfect for the part and played it well. The rest of the cast was very good, I just didn't like the story all that much.I hear the book is better so I would give it a read but I would not recommend this movie unless you can borrow it or catch it for free on television sometime.