"Confessions of a Shopaholic" - Retail Therapy
Caitlyn Daczyk
Issue date: 3/23/09 Section: Entertainment
You know the feeling you get when you find your favorite designer shoes on sale in your size, or the feeling when you find the perfect pair of jeans that seem to accentuate all of your assets perfectly? The best feeling of all is when you find the cheap designer shoes and the perfect jeans that go with everything in your closet. That feeling can be-to put it simply-addictive. P.J. Hogan's film adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's novel "Confessions of a Shopaholic" captures Rebecca Bloomwood's ups and downs of her love-hate relationship with her credit cards.
Some do yoga, some eat chocolate, but Rebecca Bloomwood prefers shopping as her form of therapy. Particularly during these economic times, who can actually afford a therapist? Unfortunately, no one can afford shopping either, especially Rebecca Bloomwood. With an overflowing wardrobe and a wallet stuffed with overdrawn credit cards, it is evident Rebecca has a shopping problem. When all the credit card bills begin pouring in, recently unemployed Rebecca needs a plan to get money, and fast.
Well, naturally when some people are in need of a quick, well-thought plan, turning to tequila is the best possible idea. Rebecca decides to write a winning article to send to her favorite fashion magazine, yet she also decides to write an honest and insulting letter to the job interviewer, Luke Brandon, that had turned her down that day. Unfortunately in her drunken stupor, Rebecca sends her winning article to Luke Brandon and the insulting letter to the editor of her favorite fashion magazine.
Luke Brandon, editor of a finance magazine, mistakes Rebecca's article on fashion as a witty metaphor about finance. He calls her back into his office and hires her on the spot. Desperate for money, Rebecca takes the job. For someone as financially unsavvy as Rebecca Bloomwood, this will be quite a task. Fortunately for the audience, this creates opportunities for some highly comedic and heart warming scenes deserving of five stars.
Isla Fisher plays Rebecca Bloomwood, a lovable ditz that works her way into the hearts of the audience and her devilishly handsome editor Luke Brandon, played by British actor Hugh Dancy. Any other actress would have made some of the comedic scenes awkward; however, the cute, bubbly Aussie Isla Fisher knows funny… she's practically engaged to it (her fiancée is Sacha Baron Cohen). "Confessions of a Shopaholic" may be your average romantic comedy-girl meets boy, girl keeps secret from boy, girl and boy fall in love, boy finds out girl's secret, boy gets mad, boy forgives girl, girl and boy live happily ever after. However, Fisher's bubbly comedic touch is just enough to make this movie a part of any girl's chick flick regime.
Some do yoga, some eat chocolate, but Rebecca Bloomwood prefers shopping as her form of therapy. Particularly during these economic times, who can actually afford a therapist? Unfortunately, no one can afford shopping either, especially Rebecca Bloomwood. With an overflowing wardrobe and a wallet stuffed with overdrawn credit cards, it is evident Rebecca has a shopping problem. When all the credit card bills begin pouring in, recently unemployed Rebecca needs a plan to get money, and fast.
Well, naturally when some people are in need of a quick, well-thought plan, turning to tequila is the best possible idea. Rebecca decides to write a winning article to send to her favorite fashion magazine, yet she also decides to write an honest and insulting letter to the job interviewer, Luke Brandon, that had turned her down that day. Unfortunately in her drunken stupor, Rebecca sends her winning article to Luke Brandon and the insulting letter to the editor of her favorite fashion magazine.
Luke Brandon, editor of a finance magazine, mistakes Rebecca's article on fashion as a witty metaphor about finance. He calls her back into his office and hires her on the spot. Desperate for money, Rebecca takes the job. For someone as financially unsavvy as Rebecca Bloomwood, this will be quite a task. Fortunately for the audience, this creates opportunities for some highly comedic and heart warming scenes deserving of five stars.
Isla Fisher plays Rebecca Bloomwood, a lovable ditz that works her way into the hearts of the audience and her devilishly handsome editor Luke Brandon, played by British actor Hugh Dancy. Any other actress would have made some of the comedic scenes awkward; however, the cute, bubbly Aussie Isla Fisher knows funny… she's practically engaged to it (her fiancée is Sacha Baron Cohen). "Confessions of a Shopaholic" may be your average romantic comedy-girl meets boy, girl keeps secret from boy, girl and boy fall in love, boy finds out girl's secret, boy gets mad, boy forgives girl, girl and boy live happily ever after. However, Fisher's bubbly comedic touch is just enough to make this movie a part of any girl's chick flick regime.
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