What's better than a stocked mini bar and neatly folded toilet paper in your hotel room? On Demand movies! Once I was released from family fun time on the condition of entertaining my six-year-old cousin, I had to find something that would shut her up and put me to sleep. So the obvious choice was the feel-good favorite -- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Ten minutes in I realized I'd paid $9.95 for a mediocre Now and Then. Basically you have your four BFF4E's who are pulled apart one summer and go through life-changing experiences. There's Bridget, the "I had a major life stressor, so now I'm a slut," Lena, the shy prude, Tibby, the brooding filmmaker and, of course, Carmen, the fat ethnic girl. On the eve before they each go their separate ways, they magically find a pair of pants that manages to fit all four girls, even el fatty. Trust me, JLo aint got nothing on this Puerto Rican's culo. They then decide to rotate the pants each week. We follow the pants through a journey of finding love, feeling emotion, getting ass, and not being able to shove your fat ass into your stepmom-to-be's bridesmaid gown.
The most touching storyline had to be Tibby's friendship with a dying girl with leukemia. I mean cancer + a little girl + I'm PMSing, it's as sure fire as Oprah. After five trips to the mini bar, two calls to the front desk to try to get the movie off my bill, and almost one successful talk about what the slut was doing on the beach with her camp counselor, it was finally over. Afterwards I felt...exactly the same, so we turned on some quality Lifetime entertainment. Hey, it beats getting told how much the family hates you by your drunken Aunt Esther. Or being called "El Fatty" in a rejected Street review.
