The Confessions of a Shopaholic

Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer

Director: P.J. Hogan

 

Cast: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy

Aren’t confessions private? 

Let’s just forget this one then because the movie though painful, is more or less forgettable, once it is over. 

If you choose to watch it because it’s a romantic comedy, a light hearted easy flowing movie that is sweet, funny and enjoyable, well let me make a confession, it’s not. 

It’s sour, dour and boring because though the book the movie was based on, was funny, adorable and even original in places, the transfer of medium misplaced those places. 

The story is about this young woman, Becky Bloomwood, (played by a much older one) who is a graduate and aspires to be a journalist. 

By the title, the obvious deduction is this woman is addicted to shopping, and what isn’t is that she is essentially a talented writer and uses excellent metaphors and is also prone to insecurity, of all types. 

She aims to write for one magazine and ends up writing for another purely by chance.

The sheer good luck continues and she becomes a household scarf, I mean name and gains tremendous popularity, all in the span of a couple of articles. 

At about the same time she gets her first pay check, she is famous, has her extra handsome and supportive boss (Dancy) falling for her, has to go to her best friend’s wedding (now, that is a romantic comedy!), is attending therapy for her shopping issues, has a huge debt and a mean debt collector stalking her and is invited to a TV show, phew! 

With all this going on in her life, things get tangled and messy, and its rock bottom time for Isla Fisher, for the character played by her.

Once there, things start looking up, and in a matter of frames it does.

The confession’s over and there is a concussion, happens when you hit your head so hard. If the movie was targeted at women and girls, here goes another confession, we like cute guys, sweet lines and romance, not chaos exuding actresses, meaningless platitudes and bad adaptations of girly novels.