DVD Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic

DISNEY
Street: June 23
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> Isla Fisher shines as an over-the-top Manhattan fashionista.

Plucky Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) gets a chance to take her comedy chops for an extended spin in Confessions. Her lively charms and game attitude are perfect for the role of New York fashionista Rebecca Bloomwood, an out-of-control spender who maxes out her credit cards and must take a job at a struggling financial magazine. The situations she finds herself in are the things that chick lit is made of—dreaming of working at a fashion magazine, falling for the dreamy boss (Hugh Dancy) and so on—but that doesn’t make Fisher’s performance and this escapist entertainment any less likable, light and fun.

Shelf Talk: Based on Sophie Kinsella’s best-selling Shopaholic books, this film was released theatrically in February, when the economic downturn was at its ugliest, which didn’t help it at the box office. But viewers might be more apt to take it home in June. Recommend it to those who loved The Devil Wears Prada and its progeny.