The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

After being together since they were kids, four teenage girls spend their first summer apart: Bridget (Blake Lively) goes off to summer soccer camp, Carmen (America Ferrera) goes to stay with her Dad and meets his new family, busy arranging his new marriage, Lena (alexis Bledel) goes to Santorini to stay with her grandparents and meets Costas without realising there is a Montague/Capulet relationship between their families, and misanthropic Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) stays at home working in the local store where she meets a younger girl who has a profound affect on her. The girls determine that a pair of jeans which mysteriously fits them all is a kind of magical link, and they mail them back and forth between each other.The jeans are no more than a fairly cheesy and obvious device, and are fairly irrelevant to the four threads, during which each of the young women discovers something about herself and moves forward.The four girls are all very good (Blake Lively is spectacularly beautiful), the scenery in the Greek and soccer camp sequences is gorgeous, and Nancy Travis (as Carmen's new stepmother-to-be) creates someone you can easily dislike and then turns you round with a single look.Although this is nominally a chickflick, there is plenty here to enjoy if you are (for instance) a Dad in his 60s. Your eyes may need tissues.

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.

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!

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, what I expected to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I couldn't believe it, I'm going to be honest, a hater of chick flicks(I'm a girl by the way), I actually loved this movie. I was so shocked that I actually enjoyed this movie throughly. Scary enough, every girl I could relate too: the Greek boyfriend, the suicidal mother, loosing a close family member to leukemia, and the neglectful father. It was disturbingly psychic to my life, but I think that's why I enjoyed it so much is that this movie wasn't unbelievable in any manner. No, I haven't read the book, not sure if I would read it, but I do know that I would recommend this movie to my friends. It's funny, smart, realistic, cute, and just makes a great story for the harder times of growing up and becoming an adult.Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget are four friends who have grown up together, they call themselves the sisterhood who have found one pair of jeans that magically fits them all. Tibby spends her summer making a documentary and befriends a sick little girl who shows her that it's OK to care about people. Carmen spends the summer with her dad who has almost "upgraded" with his new marriage and shoving it in Carmen's face. Lena is spending the summer in Greece with her grandparents and has an unexpected forbidden romance with a cute guy. Bridget is going to camp practicing her non stop stardom in sports and chases after a coach which she's not supposed to do. But they mail the pants to each other and write letters in the summer that they have officially grown up.The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was one of those pleasant surprises for me, because even though it is a very girly movie, it's very real and doesn't over do it. We haven't had a good coming of age movie in a while, so this is a perfect film for the family as well as teenagers. Will the guys enjoy this film? Not the action lovers at least, but I'm sure that any film buff could find the true heart of the film and just fall in love with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, it has good acting, great stories, and makes you remember the scary time of growing up. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a recommendation for me, this is a non miss movie.8/10