The 2008 sequel to the 'female buddy film'
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants constitutes an adaptation of Ann Brasheres's novel Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood. Like the premier installment, this picture explores the seriocomic events that unfold one summer in the lives of four temporarily-estranged friends, as an extremely special pair of jeans works its way from one girl, to the next, to the next, to the next. In one subplot, Lena (
Alexis Bledel) travels to Providence, Rhode Island and enrolls in a painting course; in another, Bridget (
Blake Lively) embarks on an archaeological excavation in Greece; in a third, Carmen (
America Ferrera) works on the backstage crew for a Vermont-based theater festival, and in the fourth, Tibby (remains in New York and enrolls in summer courses. Moroccan Sanaa Hamri, best known for his
Prince and
Mariah Carey music videos, directs; Elizabeth Chandler, who co-scripted the first film, adapts the Brasheres book. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide