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Bruce Hall: My guess is that outside of Sex and the City there's just little real interest in SJP. I'm not really sure what else to say about this. Except that if you're jonesing to see a mediocre romantic comedy starring Parker, check out If Lucy Fell. It was released in 1996 when she was still pretty AND it includes a pre-teen ScarJo, the always ravishing Elle MacPhereson and Ben Stiller proving that he's never been afraid to tackle material that's beneath him.

Edwin Davies: Maybe all Christina Hendricks' fans decided they would go and see her in Drive instead of I Don't Know How She Does It? It seems that Sarah Jessica Parker has now been completely subsumed by the character of Carrie Bradshaw; the role was so iconic and raised her to such a high level in terms of the pop cultural landscape (I mean, her computer is in the Smithsonian after all) that people are unwilling to buy her as any other character. It can't help that the response to Sex and the City 2 was so poisonous, and so many fans of the series were angry about what had been done to the character, that they may have actively avoided this one as a kind of referendum on her previous film. That she chooses to appear solely in terrible, terrible films compounds the issue, obviously.

Max Braden: This is just the kind of film Meg Ryan was in when her career was nose diving. On top of that, you just got off the offensive plot of Sex and the City 2 where rich women are baking chocolate confections while wearing white designer dresses, and toasting mothers without nannies, and you want to double up on that? Are you crazy? What pains me most is that it takes down the lovely Busy Phillips with it. Damn you, Sarah Jessica Parker.

David Mumpower: What is the appeal of Sarah Jessica Parker? I will never understand this. One of my favorite songs of all time, Jessie by Joshua Kadison (you don't know the song and you don't the artist), is about her. When they broke up, she had ruined him for other women to the point that he came out. To this day, he professes his love to her. Her television show is harder to kill than a member of the Cullen clan and she keeps getting work in movies. The whole appeal of her is an unexplainable phenomenon to me. I am against the idea of a Hostel 3 in theory but if they cast Sarah Jessica Parker in it, I promise to spend $10 on a movie ticket and $20 on a Blu Ray. Take me serious on this, Hollywood.

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