What are the critics across the pond saying about "Sex & the City?" Depends on their sex, apparently.

As those of us on this side of the Atlantic anxiously await the opportunity to check out the highly-anticipated big screen debut of Carrie Bradshaw and company, some critics over in Great Britain have already gotten the chance to see the film.
And they seem split down the gender line.

The Daily Telegraph's Celia Walden and the Daily Mirror's Polly Hudson were both happily entertained.

"It was coarse, sentimental, and outrageously materialistic - just as we hoped and expected it would be," Walden wrote.

"I was against this film," noted Hudson. "But as more time passed I began to miss Carrie and Co sooooo much, I realised that just seeing them again would probably be enough. Even if all they did was sleep for 90 minutes.

"Luckily they do loads more than that - for a whole two and a half hours."

Unlike his female counterparts, Will Pavia of The Times of London, found the film lacking.

"There may be a problem with a film when a narrator constantly tells you the meaning of what you have just seen, gift-wrapping each scene with a moral," he wrote, detailing his different qualms about the comedy.

"None of these problems seemed apparent to the women who sat around me," he added, and even went so far as to note that his gender may in fact be the problem.

"Everyone else, being in possession of more than one X chromosome, seemed entirely satisfied by what they were served," Pavia wrote.

According to The Guardian, even local celebrities who attended the London premiere seemed split among men and women. Fashion writer Plum Sykes told the publication, "I loved it... It was so funny and witty and the dialogue was brilliant."

Meanwhile, celebrity hairdresser Nicky Clarke appreciated the film's "stylishness," but concluded it was "very girly."

That's not to say it was the cup of tea for every woman. Scottish beauty Kirsty Gallacher found the flick disappointing. "I didn't really enjoy it very much," she told The Guardian. "My friends loved the series and I went with a couple of them and they loved the film. But I'm afraid I don't get it."