CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC

I saw Confessions of a shopaholic and I had quite a marvellous time smiling and laughing my way throughout the movie..It's funny, sometimes sentimental, full of beautiful shots, branded clothes and it has a light story line..

Confessions of a Shopaholic is a 2009 film adaptation of the Shopaholic series of novels by Sophie Kinsella. It is directed by P. J. Hogan and stars Isla Fisher as the central character, Rebecca Bloomwood, as well as John Goodman and Joan Cusack as her parents. Krysten Ritter plays Rebecca's best friend Suze and Hugh Dancy is the editor in chief Luke Brandon.] John Lithgow plays Edgar West, Kristin Scott Thomas portrays Alette Naylor, chief editor and founder of the fashion magazine Alette. Leslie Bibb plays the editor of Alette, Alicia Billington, Lynn Redgrave plays the doyenne of a publishing empire and Julie Hagerty appears as Haley.

Rebecca Bloomwood is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door -- that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity - The Girl in the Green Scarf and gradually but surely she fell in love with her boss...But when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control--and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.

On its opening weekend without Presidents' Day, the film opened #4 behind Taken, He's Just Not That Into You, and Friday the 13th grossing $15,054,000 in 2,507 theaters with an $6,005 average.] As of March 3, 2009 the film grossed $34,152,335 at the domestic box office and $51,817,530 at the box office worldwide.

Confessions of a Shopaholic has received generally negative reviews. As of March 6, 2009 the film holds an average score of 38, based on 30 reviews on the Web Site Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a rating of 23%, based on 113 reviews with a consensus "This middling romantic comedy underutilizes a talented cast and delivers muddled messages on materialism and conspicuous consumption."

Todd McCarthy of Variety said, "this adaptation of the first two of Sophie Kinsella's massively popular novels strains far too hard for comedy that seldom erupts with full force and inevitably betrays a free-spending mindset that now feels gone with the wind". Her complimented Fisher's performance, saying that "her irrepressible comic personality overcomes a number of the film's impediments".

Regardless of what these critics said, I had a good time watching it!!All the casts are superb and gave a splendid performance..Romance is there, excellent shots and some hillarious scenes (See the trailer where Rebecca dances with his boss using a fan!!)

I would recommend you to see the movie if you love branded goods and light comedy movie genre!!