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www.eonline.com - : Even if you're a dude who's seen Episode III four times already, you'll have a good time hanging with this Sisterhood. The extremely well done adaptation of the popular novel features one pair of pants that sure gets around: four teen girls share 'em while they head their separate ways for the summer. Magic happens, and they don't even make your ass look fat! The dungarees help Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn get some perspective on life. Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel heads off to Greece and falls for her first boyfriend. Soccer champ Blake Lively processes her mother's suicide (sometimes in bad ways). And America Ferrera (Real Women Have Curves) struggles with fitting into her remarried dad's new life. All four stories are heartfelt, and this cast of able and awfully likable girls can work the comedy and coming-of-age drama without going sappy. Call this the perfect fit. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Four teenage girls in a clothing store, trying on things, kidding around, giggling. Girls of four different sizes and shapes. What makes them all want to try on the same pair of pre-owned jeans? And why are the jeans a perfect fit all four times? It's the summer before the girls begin their senior year in high school, and all four have big summer plans. more...
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www.boston.com - : For the hordes of teenage girls who wore out the pages of Ann Brashares's 2001 young-adult novel ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,'' I'll get the major change-ups out of the way: Tibby isn't petite and Lena's grandparents hate Kostas right out of the gate. Here's the biggest shocker, though: The movie version of ''Sisterhood'' is otherwise sweet, wise, warm, and remarkably true to Brashares's characters and values. Men need not apply -- actually, teenage boys will probably gnaw their arms off to get away -- and the movie's much too mainstream to appeal to the art house crowd, but these are, by and large, good points. As female-bonding comfort food goes, ''Sisterhood'' is that rare meal both adolescent girls and their mothers will be able to agree on. more...
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