{"id":2800,"date":"2009-03-14T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2009-03-14T21:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T02:41:36","slug":"confessions-of-a-shopaholic-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/03\/14\/confessions-of-a-shopaholic-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Shopaholic&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/25o5.gif\" alt=\"2.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nI had fairly low expectations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1093908\/\"><em>Confessions of a Shopaholic<\/em><\/a> and they were mostly fulfilled. There are some funny moments, but on the whole the script is hokey, predictable, uninspired and full of obvious plot holes.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing about it is Isla Fisher who is cute and engaging enough to make us like a character who through most of the movie is thoughtless, irresponsible and dishonest. She has some talent for physical comedy and might be really good in a real screwball comedy, but this movie is not nearly clever and witty enough to succeed at that level.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFisher plays Rebecca Bloomwood, a young, fashion-mad journalist with a shopping addiction. She wants to get a job at a leading fashion magazine, but due to an improbable series of events she ends up working at as financial advice columnist for a personal finance magazine with a hunky editor (Hugh Dancy). Since her own finances are in a catastrophic state she is manifestly unqualified to give financial advice to anyone, but the situation seems funnier on paper than on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The movie feels uneven, alternating between fluffy slapstick romantic comedy and a darker tale about addictive self-destructive behavior. Ultimately neither angle really works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had fairly low expectations for Confessions of a Shopaholic and they were mostly fulfilled. There are some funny moments, but on the whole the script is hokey, predictable, uninspired&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/03\/14\/confessions-of-a-shopaholic-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-confessions-of-a-shopaholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}