Bonds of ‘Sisterhood’ Are Still Strong

The film has four distinct storylines, held loosely together by the peripatetic pants, which get FedExed around the globe. Along the way, the friends deal with Issues (mental illness, a suicidal parent, fear of intimacy, burgeoning sexuality, strained friendship, missing magic pants), and, thanks to the talent and humor of its young stars, you don’t mind that everything gets wrapped up a little too neatly by the end.

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Catching up with Rory
Alexis Bledel talks mopeds and offers ‘Sister’-ly advice

Alexis Bledel isn’t your usual young actress. The star of the much-mourned “Gilmore Girls” series, who returns to the big screen in “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” as a member of a female foursome brought together by magical blue jeans, isn’t the tabloid presence a young woman in Hollywood often risks becoming — and she’s perfectly happy about that.
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Given that Bledel spent seven seasons as Rory Gilmore, the rising TV stars came to her for advice, right? “I don’t remember if anyone asked,” she says, laughing, “but I do remember contributing my two cents. ‘Oh, you’re going to be on a show? There goes your life.’ They’re all-consuming jobs, these series. And it’s nice that we’ve all had these experiences.”
Bledel, who attended New York University for writing and directing, is back in New York filming the independent feature “The Good Guy,” and returning to the Big Apple suits her just fine. “I love it,” she says. “I’m only here for six weeks, but I’m kind of deluding myself, pretending like I live here.”

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Movie Review: “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″

Grab your best girlfriends and some classic junk food and get to your nearest theater A.S.A.P to see “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.”
I have to admit, I was a little skeptical going in to the film because this movie followed the tale of the fourth book, “Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.” The first movie (which I also loved) focused on the plot of the first book, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” So where were book two and three?
But my apprehensions fell away no more than three minutes into the movie. Even if you didn’t like the books, you can easily enjoy this tale about friendship and finding who you really are.

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‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ is a Good Fit for its Audience

Where the first film found the friends finding a pair of jeans that bonds them together, the sequel is really about how their lives start drifting apart. Or at least start drifting in new directions. Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is at NYU studying film and struggling with having sex for the first time with her boyfriend. Lena (Alexis Bledel) is getting over a broken heart, which means allowing herself to fall for the nude model in her class at Rhode Island School of Design. Bridget (Blake Lively) finds a box of letters that inspires her to reform her relationship with her grandmother. Carmen (America Ferrera) goes to help a new friend at a private acting camp and ends up taking the stage herself.
Teenage girls are going to love this movie. It has a lot of shocking, shriek-worthy moments and features a heavy amount of male eye candy. The story deals real issues that will resonate well with that audience, and, since they are handled tastefully, parents are going to be happy. The boyfriends and husbands who get dragged along are not going to fall in love with it, but that’s no surprise.

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Movie Review: ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′

You would think with all the television success Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel have had, they would be too big for their britches and would not want to do a sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”
Luckily for the fans of the books and the feature film, “Pants” is still a good fit for them.
“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″ is a sweet, sentimental and occasionally funny movie about four female friends. The friends are linked by a pair of magical pants they pass around like a note in the back of the classroom. It takes only a few minutes of seeing the four on screen to know it is the chemistry of the cast that makes the movie work.

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Slipping back into her Traveling Pants
Before joining the Sisterhood and becoming a Gilmore Girl, Alexis Bledel was just a ‘gentle girl’ from Houston

Raised in Houston by her Mexican mother, Nanette, and Argentine father, Martin, Alexis Bledel learned Spanish first. She’d love to use it on camera.
“I think it’s a little tricky because in the States, when they want a Latin actress, they want someone who looks sort of stereotypically Latin,” she says. “But I think I can get away with playing a Spanish or Argentine character. I really hope I get to do that someday.”
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Also generating uncertainty is the Screen Actors Guild’s threatened strike. “I definitely don’t want to work if we’re trying to stand for something,” she says.
Though she asserts she is not an activist, she has been looking for a good cause to put her heart into. “A lot of times charities just want an actor to lend their name. I actually want to know everything about what I’m promoting and be involved directly.”

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Talking with the ‘Sisterhood 2′ Stars
Premiere caught up with the smart and funny stars of ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ to talk about growing up, keeping in touch, crazy rumors, Planned Parenthood, and positive female friendships.

Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, and Amber Tamblyn have grown up since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005, and so have their careers.
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Alexis Bledel: The donkeys were fun. The donkeys were whatever. They’re easy. You just sit on them.
Alexis Bledel: We just have fun working together. I know that in the first movie they kind of got out of our way, and whatever we were lucky to have as chemistry ourselves, they really let it come through. And in this movie there was more of that.
Amber Tamblyn: Alexis, talk about how much you like me. Come on, spit it out.
Alexis Bledel: Just trying to stay in touch as you get older is difficult. That’s something we’ve all probably had to deal with.

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