I was lucky enough to get tickets for the day of its release on the Thursday and this is a film that is just as good as the book, I love the books and the characters that Sophie Kinsella has created and have loved all of the books in the series and the fact that they have turned it in two a film was just fantastic. The audience at the cinema loved it and had a great time laughing and clapping at this great romantic comedy.
Confessions of a shopaholic follows the life of Rebecca Bloomwood a girl who loves to shop even though her credit cards are all maxed out and she has a debt collector try to catch up with her to get her to pay her outstanding bills.
Rebecca then looses her job and then gets a job with an investment magazine where she is paid to advise people on debt. There she meets the Luke Brandon her boss who she falls in love with. There are lots of up and downs on the way and I will not give away the rest of the film.
Isla Fisher plays Becky and I cannot imagine that there would be anyone better for the role she plays the role perfectly with a great amount of humor and she plays the dense character of Rebecca really well. This is an all star cast and as you watch this film you see performances from Joan Cusack who plays Rebecca's mum, John Goodman who plays her dad, John Lithgow and Kristen Scott Thomas.
Some of my favourite scenes in the film are when Becky and Luke dance as the dance moves that Isla uses were hysterical and made the film, the fight that Becky has over a pair of designer boots and her far fetched excuses that she gives to the Debt Collector Mr Smee.
As you expect this film has all the designer names in it and has some great clothes it in, although I have to say that the clothes that Becky teams up together are not the greatest that I have seen as they do not tend to match.
This film is a classic and I hope that they bring out a sequel with the next novel as each book I believe only gets better and Becky's shopping only seems to get more out of control. This in my opinion is a definite chick flick and it is a slightly predictable ending buy the humour in the film makes it all worth while.
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