10k Monday, August 11, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Coming of age ain't easy By BLAKE GOBLE The Daily Arts Writer are ba "Joanc cOURTESY WARnE nR( Life is hard when you look like a Cosmo model. Whoever said that "the heart wants what it wants" was a dun- derhead. The heart is confusing, impulsive and bitter, and it never leaves you completely sat- isfied. Its spon- taneity is, at the very least, Sisterhood taxing. Sounds of the Tiravel- curmudgeon- i ly, but when ingant watching four At Showcase twenty-some- and Quality16 thing women Warner Bros go through the standard tropes and worries of growing up, one can't help but think that dat- ing is silly. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" leaves one feel- ing this way. tic NY Ferrar men, a nabe.1 Gilmor MV four girls of the first film Well, no, not especially. They're ck. Amber Tamblyn (TV's freaks, actually. They travel freely, of Arcadia") is Tibby, a caus- never concerned about deadlines, YU film student. America schedules or the cost of randomly a (TV's "Ugly Betty") is Car- vacating Vermontfor Greece. They nebbish Yale theatre wan- solve their problems with sincere Alexis Bledel (TV's "The and adorable conversations that e Girls") is Lena, a Rhode always express the right emotions. They find meaning in a crappy pair of jeans. Their problems are a resolved in two hours. audl an It feels preposterous, as if the u r aitc studio's talking down to us when it presents life in such a simplified irl dram a manner. Yeah, supposedly only 13- year-olds watch this, but it's a dis- service to their upbringing. Now, I don't mean to completely trash the "Sisterhood." It's not a School of Design flake. And terrible film - just a redundant Lively (TV's "Gossip Girl") one, an old-studio ensemble pleas- get, an undeclared Brown er like "The Women" or even the r. They're normal coming- fairly recent "You've Got Mail." people like the rest of us. The feeling is meant to be saccha- See SISTERHOOD, Page 11 Island Blake ] is Brid worrie of-age Right? 0 0 9 2