How to enjoy a movie you know is going to be terrible:

(i.e. Sex and the City 2)

Tip #1: Go with great people.

Maggie and I posed on the silly (but irresistible) red carpet while

Erin and Kathryn ran to the liquor store (more on that later).

Tip #2: Have low expectations for the movie

and high expectations for the theater.

We went to NYC's fancy Ziegeld Theatre.

Who needs a plot line when you have chandeliers?

Tip #3: Drink.

We ignored the gimmicky (and non-alcoholic) beverage selection

and instead each had our own miniature bottles of champagne

that we snuck in like mature adults.

Tip #4: Bring a bottle opener.

Who knew that instead of corks mini champagnes have beer caps?

I got them open but it wasn't pretty or classy. And now I have this champagne snakebite

Tip #5: Laugh at everything.

I'm not sure if I was supposed to find so much of the movie comical but I laughed at the parts that were trying to be funny, I laughed at the serious parts that were so cheesy they were funny, and I laughed at the sad parts that were so poorly acted they were funny.

(Note: This technique also worked well for me when I saw Miami Vice in the theater. At one point I realized there was one other person in the packed theater laughing at all of the same inappropriate times as me. It was Quentin Tarrantino! True story.)