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Here [Fisher] is giving it everything she's got and it's just not enough.
This is a movie that is warning us against the dangers of being slaves to labels while at the same time celebrating those same designer brands.
Isla Fisher is such a bundle of comic energy that watching her spin her wheels in the aggressively unfunny Confessions of a Shopaholic counts as cruel and unusual punishment -- for her as well as for us.
[T]his adaptation is really just about buying the 'brand,' and--like the retailers in the film--selling America something it already had.
The production renders totally irrelevant all hopes for a well-made movie. It's one of those ragged, pandemonious studio comedies that hammers at plot points in every contrived scene.
Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory.
Cinematic impulse buy that sparkles through its 100 minutes.
A disappointing comedy, out of synch with the zeitgeist
an exceedingly safe movie, which can serve as entertainment for the first date crowd or the couple who has been happily married for years
If you are willing to turn your brain off, Fisher makes the film very watchable, but it's core message over materialism and financial stupidity are confused and the film lacks just that few more laughs to tip it above mediocrity.
This is a film that couldn't buy a positive female character if there was a barrel full on clearance at Bloomies.
Charm can go a long way in making a film. Or, in the case of Confessions of a Shopaholic, the charm of Isla Fisher makes the film bearable.
There's a modest collection of extras on the disc, including a set of deleted scenes, an outtakes reel and a music video.
Even without the bad timing %u2013 a paean to debt and excess released a few months after the world's biggest financial meltdown since the 1920s %u2013 it still would not have worked.
Hollywood likes nothing more than having its cake and eating it too, which explains the confusions of P.J. Hogan's Confessions of a Shopaholic. [Blu-ray]
Isla gets bagged, in this big screen bid to have your designer duds and wear them too. While predatory airhead female mall stalkers with too much lipstick pretend finger wagging, as they fabulously flaunt shameless product placement pricey designer labels
Doesn't operate on a level of logic, being the fantasy that it is, but the enthusiasm of its star and the color dynamics of its lush parade of fashion makes it a solid must see for the teenage girl crowd.
...a typically dumbed-down mainstream romantic comedy...
Isla Fisher gives it all she's got, and Hugh Dancy does his best, but the parts never come together to make Confessions of a Shopaholic a zinger of a romantic comedy.
See why everyone loves Isla Fisher
Not only a comical view of a shopaholic, but an educational one too.
Tacky but completely in-season, Confessions of a Shopaholic is the type of studio claptrap you get when the country's economy is in complete meltdown.
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