Review of Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) by Nonya B — 07 May 2012
OMG! This movie is so totally!
OK, not really.
How you react to this film probably depends on your present station in life. If you are a frugal person who's been fired, foreclosed on, or otherwise hit hard by the economic downturn, you'll likely find Confessions of a Shopaholic frustratingly simplistic and unbelievable. If you are one of the lucky people who still have a job and a house, and if you think other's money problems are their own damn faults, then this film will be super-cute and way wicked totally awesome!
Fisher plays a ditzy but lovable urban princess who has maxed out all her credit cards on grossly expensive clothes and accessories. In desperation, she has to-gasp-get a job. Thank heavens she has little problem doing that (presumably in another universe). But it's at a budget savings magazine run by a very hot boss (Dancy). The horror!
Nothing is surprising in this Valley-Girl-meets-Prada-by-way-of-Clueless chick flick. The only revelation is Fisher (Wedding Crashers), who it turns out is brilliant at physical comedy. She stumbles, she bumps into things, she falls and we laugh. In fact, she's the only thing working throughout humdrum Shopaholic-and she works well enough to give this film three stars.
This review of Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) was written by Nonya B on 07 May 2012.
Confessions of a Shopaholic has generally received mixed reviews.
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