Based upon the fourth novel in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is a sequel to the 2005 film. The original cast (Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, and Amber Tamblyn) all reprise their roles from the original film but this time around it took more than some magical pants passed back and forth to keep us interested. What had once seemed like a fresh alternative to the usual tween-girl movie frayed immediately. Four years after discovering a magically fitting pair of jeans, best friends Tibby Tomko-Rollins (Tamblyn), Carmen Lowell (Ferrera), Lena Kaligaris (Bledel), and Bridget Vreeland (Lively) have returned in this bright, bubbly, and - for all intents and purposes - meaningless sequel. Granted, theres nothing wrong with the performances, and the film is a good fit (pun totally intended) for its audience, but ultimately it drags way too much. It shouldn't need to be reiterated but the film most certainly doesn't live up to the original film, but thats like saying A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child doesn't live up to A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
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