Here’s the Bullseye for the four-day holiday weekend of May 28, which “Sex and the City 2” jump-started early with midnight screenings last night. The other wide opener is “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” while Jean Pierre Jeunet’s “Micmacs” also bows from Sony Pictures Classics.

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Clearly, we should expect quite a gender divide between those seeking the sparkly sass of the “SATC” crew and those desiring the video-game derived spectacle of “Persia,” though both feature an ocean’s worth of sand.

Here’s Carl DiOrio’s boxoffice preview and the Bullseye for the weekend of May 14 for added context. (I was away in Cannes last week and missed getting the May 21 Bullseye up, which turned out to be a shame. Unlike most outlets, the Flixster data actually predicted an underwhelming opening for the fourth “Shrek” movie, which is where it ultimately ended up.)

Comments and observations after the jump:

Well, here we are with Carrie Bradshaw’s happily ever after, which for some reason must take her and the girls to … Abu Dhabi? The run time on this, the second trailer for Warner Bros.’ “Sex and the City” sequel, says 2 minutes, 31 seconds, but it feels feature length.

This is cringe-inducing nearly the whole way through.

From the opening frames featuring blinged-out New Line, HBO and Village Roadshow logos to the glittering desert, there’s hardly a moment in this teaser that isn’t trying to distract you with something shiny. Perhaps the bling is there so you don’t realize there’s a flimsy plot ahead, as this clip insinuates that our heroine cheats on her husband of two years with an old flame that she happens to bump into halfway across the world.

“SATC” die-hards probably won’t mind the candy-coated version of the Middle East, or the ladies’ inappropriate-for-their-age attire (there must have been a bulk rate on sequins), but at this stage of the game, is a hint at infidelity really what’s going to bring audiences to theaters?

Check out the trailer and tell us what you think.

The trailer for “Sex and the City 2“ is over at Moviefone. It’s excruciating to sit through, even as it assures us of the “amazing things” that will happen in this follow-up to the $401 million-grossing first feature.

What those things are have not been included in the trailer, nor is any hint at a plot. Oh, except a shot of the four ladies striding in line up over a dune in the Moroccan desert. Huh?

To me, this smells like the second “Bridget Jones” movie, when they shipped poor Bridget off to Thailand for no good reason. That the place where the production was filmed was later destroyed by the southeast Asian tsunami not long after should serve as a warning to anyone who contributed to the filming of “SATC2.”

It’s clear that Warner Bros. and the filmmakers expect you simply to swoon at the very sight of the SATC girls’ fabulousness trotted back onto the big screen. Good luck with that.

You have been warned.