The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

You believe these four are friends now and will probably be friends when they're little old ladies.

There's scant sisterhood or pants, but these chicas do travel.

It doesn't measure up to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Which is sort of like saying Rocky V wasn't as good as Rocky IV. Sort of.

Like its predecessor, Sisterhood 2 is based on two radical ideas: namely, that young women's stories are about more than the pursuit of men, and that happiness isn't something someone else gives you -- it's something you have to find for yourself.

Screenwriter Elizabeth Chandler gracefully condenses three of Ann Brashares's best-selling teen novels, striking the right balance between humor and pathos as the characters cope with jealousy, heartbreak, family conflicts, and a pregnancy scare.

Does an exemplary job of telling a new story without requiring the audience to have viewed the former dramatic comedy.

Blake Lively is given more to do than simply be the hot sexpot dealing with her burgeoning sexuality and Lively makes the most of it.

A movie directed by a woman, written by a woman, based on books written by a woman, starring young women with minorities and older women as supporting cast? Give it a chance.

The plot of this movie remains a fantasy whipped up for the sole and express pleasure of 16-year-old girls.