Roger Ebert began his review of “Sex and The City” by stating, “I am not the person to review this movie.” Before I saw the movie, I was all set to start out mine claiming that I am that person.

I am a fan of the HBO series and was looking forward to the movie. A couple of my girlfriends had already squeed about it, so I was actually excited. I went in with a positive attitude.

What a letdown. Here are my main complaints. I have four.

1. I had heard that the movie was the equivalent of four or five television episodes worth of story. That sounded great to me. It would be like a marathon.

What I didn't realize was that the movie would also be SHOT like the television show.

It was all too close, and I wasn’t sitting up by the screen. I sat three rows from the back of the theater. It’s been 10 years since the series premiered and these women are older. The story highlighted their ages but was it really necessary to magnify every wrinkle? They could have just backed up and toned it down a little.

Yes, I am over 40 and perhaps a little sensitive to these issues, but come on!

2. Because it felt like a television show, audience members were acting as if they were home watching television. Folks were wandering around, talking back to the screen, answering and texting on cell phones like I've never witnessed in a theater before.

Maybe the TV series “raised” its fans to behave that way, but I suspect it was actually due to the pacing and the tone of the film.

3. I’m not really into designers but I still enjoy looking at fashion. I found the two extended fashion sequences in this movie to be completely out of place. We’ve been exposed to lots of fashion over the life of the television series but it was never shoved at us all at once. Even staged fashion shows present fashion more subtly and more artistically than this movie does. It reminded me of Katherine Heigl modeling the 27 dresses in “27 dresses.” Just … yuck!

4. But my biggest complaint is that familiar characters behaved out of character.

A) Samantha and Smith were my favorite couple on the show and he is significantly changed. He was always all about putting the relationship first and his career second, but that’s not the case in the movie. Sure he was a fantasy but that’s why we loved him. The transformation he goes through is a big disappointment.

B) Speaking of big, Big’s behavior made even less sense to me. He’s an international financier, for heaven’s sake. Over the years we’ve seen him in the swankiest social situations possible, so why did the filmmakers decide that this movie — the last time we’ll ever see him — was the time to have him behave like a spoiled child?

C) C is for Carrie. What happened to our girl? She falls apart and then gives up and gives in. What's the message here? Is it that women can change but men can't? I don't like either side of that coin — these women are too savvy to act like love struck teenagers and they love men too much to short change the opposite sex in such a way.

The prosecution rests. I’d love to hear your defense.