Confessions of a Shopaholic Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

For me great, for my husband, well he confess he'd have rather shopped around for a different film..

For me this was a lovely bit of fluff, a nonesense light rom-com that didnt try to be anything else,, and I thoroughly enjoyed it... but a warning if you want to watch this with your other half.... my husband described it as a fields of corn and dairy full of cheese movie that was a very poor Devil Wears Prada copy. And in a way I have to agree, this time our magazine employee is a shopaholic, but has very similar Devils Wears qualities. Definately a movie for the girls to enjoy and the boys to totally avoid... Much like shopping in real life really !

Shop til you drop (dead of boredom)

Now, I'm the first in the queue to watch a chic flick romance - I don't expect too much of a plot, just some funny lines and a passionate kiss as the credits role. But it has to be vagely credible on some level which is where this film falls very flat for me.

Our heroine is supposedly articulate enough to write pieces worthy of publication in a national magazine and yet she couldn't string a sentence together. She also didn't seem to write more than one article during the whole film despite an utterly unbelieveable meteoric rise to journalistic stardom.

The flat mate, an equally dim girl, is used and abused by this poor man's excuse for Carrie Bradshaw to the point of utter irritation.

This is trying to reinvent the Sex in the City story but without the brains, wit and va-va-voom - a screeching over-hyper Isla Fisher is no Sarah Jessica Parker.

The only saving grace are the fabulous scene stealing performances by the wonderful Kristen Scott Thomas.

Surely enough rom-coms have been set in fashion houses - Ugly Better, Devil Wears Prada etc - we don't need another version of this tired format.