In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood (ISLA FISHER) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping—a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door—until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.
ISLA FISHER (“Wedding Crashers”) stars in the film from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director P.J. Hogan (“My Best Friend’s Wedding”). The screenplay by Tracey Jackson and Tim Firth and Kayla Alpert is based on the books “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and “Shopaholic Takes Manhattan” by Sophie Kinsella.
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"What a pleasant surprise"
Ok so normally I would've gone into a screening of a silly little shopping-and-boys rom com full of scepticism - i mean, it can't exactly be enlightening can it? but as it happens i DID enjoy KInsella's Shopaholic books and for once I had no opinion of the cast - I vaguely remember Isla Fisher from that Aussie soap, but that's about it. Plus I'd had a pretty heavy day of meetings and deadlines and was rather looking forward to napping in a darkened room for 90 minutes.
Little did i know. It seems that Fisher is actually a pretty good actress. She's vibrant, sexy and and could totally be the girl that will eat baked beans for a month if it means she can walk tall in gorgeous new shoes. I'm not surprised she was the director's first choice for this role - i can't imagine anyone else doing it so well. Well, maybe Cameron Diaz, but she's too pretty and too tall to REALLY have us love her. Fisher's gorgeous but she could also be your best fiend. Speaking of best friends, where has Krysten Ritter been hiding - she does a brilliant job playing Rebecca's (Fisher) best friend Suze - lets hope C of S starts the rollers rolling in because we definitely need more Rittet in our screens!
The timing of this film makes me chuckle - do we REALLY want to see a film about slimy debt collectors when we can't pay our own credit card bills? thankfully it's not very close to reality, and anyway what we really want to know is: will she get her man AND the scarf? so yes, not many financial lessons to learn here but at least you come out feeling like there might just be a sparkling light at the end of the tunnel - and that's good enough for me!