Highly Overrated But Still Good

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I actually tried hard to like this movie, I really did. The thing is, RomComs are generally bad with a few gems. It's super weird since Romance by itself is very good, and Comedy by itself is really good. For some reason, they just can't mesh well together. This is because bad RomComs are either super annoying, or they go from RomCom to a torture porn fest. It's actually unsettling. Without further ado, let's jump into this review.Rebecca is the opposite of Andy from The Devil Wears Prada. She is a girl, who has a passion for fashion, working at some random gardening place with a dream of working for this huge fashion magazine. Unfortunately her job goes to Alicia, and she has to settle for a job at a financial magazine (under the umbrella as her favorite magazine if I remember correctly). The thing is, her job is writing a column about giving people financial advise when she's a shopaholic that's thousands of dollars into debt because of her habit. This movie then turns into a torture porn that doesn't make any sense:Why does Alicia hate her so much? They hardly even met, and as far as Alicia goes, Rebecca is Luke's co-worker. Despite all of that, she literally got pleasure from seeing Rebecca get embarrassed at the event. It's not even logical. Derek, the credit card guy, is being a creepy stalker for no reason what so ever. Why harass her? Doesn't he have a life or any other victims to hunt down? The most disgusting scene was when Derek stalked Rebecca on her show and asked her those humiliating questions about debt on national television. This is when RomComs go from slapstick humor, to full on torture. Nothing is funny about a girl being torn to shreds on national television and having to fight back tears. Take in mind that the only crime in this movie that Rebecca has done is shop excessively and lied, yet she gets more torture than a girl who makes fun of other girls and her own career and a girl that played puppet master to some random girl she just met just to get an ego boost. I'm done.

I saw this movie in the cinema and it's money I wish I'd saved. It's only now, nearly six years later that I can bring myself to write a review on this shambles of a movie. Firstly let me make one thing clear, if you've never read the Shopaholic books you might enjoy this movie. If you watch it with no prior knowledge of the books it might be enjoyable. I couldn't tell you because I had read every book up to that point. So when I saw the movie I almost cried...and not by how amazing it was. I almost cried because of how insulting it was to the books. The casting was terrible. Not a single actor portrayed the characters properly and the movie left out so many things. It might as well have been a stand alone movie because it was nothing like the book at all. For those who love the Shopaholic books, keep clear of this movie. It will haunt you forever.

This is the most under-rated rom-com in the history of cinema! All the more surprising given the sparkling script and a superb supporting cast (especially the mannequins).The director deftly steered the audience to cheer the heroine all the way to the tills. It helps that Isla Fisher has such expressive naivety and impeccable comic timing. Her internal dialogues reflect the lies we tell ourselves, when we become totally "consumed" by our very own grand obsession.Whether we are shopaholics, chocoholics, or plain old alcoholics, the endorphins are released in exactly the same way. And the guilt trip afterwards slowly eats away at our self-esteem, and the drug treadmill cries out for another "high" to compensate. Of course, in calmer moments of sanity, we solemnly swear true repentance. Ultimately, our heroine's attempts at 'redemption' reflects the human fragility of impulsively doing the opposite of the promises we make to ourselves.Hugh Dancy charms us with his take on life: "Cost and worth are very different things". And I must confess that I am a movie-holic, but this film has definitely worth been watching (again).

I gave 4 out of 10, because I absolutely love the Shopaholic books. I loved the clever jokes, the funny-but-awkward moments and situations, I loved Becky Bloomwood.This film takes her name, her original story, flaps it around, tears it apart and spits on it. The lovely, clever story of a girl who finds herself in the middle of trouble, gets transformed to a dull movie which has everything wrong -bad acting and it continues until you get tired of glancing the time.I'm sad that the film turned out like this. A grade B chick flick, which isn't funny, entertaining or even "passable". Read the books, get to know true Becky Bloomwood.