I once heard an interesting article about how The Simpsons morphed from a voice of counter culture to part of the corporate and commercial mainstream. In a way, this did the reverse. The original movie was a high-energy youthquake of optimism and finding your place while finding your truth. We reveled in fashion montages and slick dialogue. It was the NYC of Sex in the City, but for up and comming millinials who were going to do things on their own terms. Before smart phones. Before the 2008 once in a lifetime crash. We come back 20 years later to find a more nuanced world. Everyone still looks great, but where no one in fashion would participate in the original; you couldn't count the cameo and labels who squeezed their way into this version. The movie gives us a plausible version of the main characters and their reasonings for finding themselves back together. Everyone get's a redemption. The fans get lots of service. But where the original spoke of hustle of optimism, this movie speaks to exhaustion and broken promises. Multiple times is bluntly calls out the evils of capitalism, while celebrating multi-thousand dollar handbags. It portrays tech bros and investors of somewhere between hapless to vile. They have a whole seen calling out McKinsey consultants as vultures who destroy value. The sad reality is that even fashion has lost the fantasy and the aspiration to be just another aquisition. Was it worth it is what the movie asks us? Was the hustle and optimism of 2006 misplaced?