So much average

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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.

Isla Fisher plays Becky Bloomwood a young woman who is obsessed with shopping. She loves it so much she ends up in debt and has to get a job. So she ends up taking a position for a handsome man called Luke played by Hugh Dancy not knowing to him that there is a man after Becky for humiliating her because of her addiction of shopping. From there the two start to like each other even if there is a bit of competition from Lesile Bibbs character who also has a thing for Luke.Overall the film is plain stupid especially with the models coming alive and wanting Becky to buy a green scarf.If you love a bit of silliness than check it out. Keep an eye out for Wendy Maliack from Alvin & The Chipmunks 2 and The Emperors New Groove who plays a woman who wants Becky to stop being an addict over shopping.2/10

While the focus of the comedy, the plight of the shopaholic, merely uses downtown New York City as a pretty backdrop when it could easily be set in any western world major fashion center, it is the side plot, the heart of topsy turvy Manhattan, which brings out its charm. Although the plot seems nonsense fluff on the surface, the reason there are more than perhaps ten million city residents who can live in downtown Manahttan but wouldn't,is the truth behind the nonsense side plot of the movie- Folks wealthy enough to send one of their paid army of competent flunkies to arrange their next meal, along with other things, are the ones who become belligerent and testy on take out lines at places such as street hot dog vendors, while sales staff in the highest level world class boutiques might find register transactions declined because the customer is behind in his or her cash under the table rent for an apartment in which he or she is not an identified resident. .

It was obvious from the title this would be a chick flick, I didn't realise it was based on British books, so the Americanisation was obvious as well, I just decided to watch it and see what it would be like because the premise sounded alright to me, from director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding, Peter Pan). Basically in New York young Rebecca Bloomwood (Definitely, Maybe's Isla Fisher) has an obsession for shopping, especially for the latest bargains and fashionable clothes, outfits, accessories and garments, and due to all this addictive buying she in deep debt with unpaid credit card purchases. When she loses the source of her income she is forced into trying to get a job as a journalist, while she battles to control her shopping habits, and after a seemingly unsuccessful interview with financial magazine Successful Saving editor Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy) and writing him a drunken insulting letter she unintentionally lands herself a job as writer for his magazine. Luke wants Rebecca to write an article based on how to save money, she fails on her first attempt to do this because she cheated using another book, but her second article using simple language and metaphors, based on her experiences of shopping, this article becomes successful. Soon enough, with the pseudonym "The Green in the Green Scarf", she becomes a successful journalist for the magazine, and is introduced to the big names of the finance and shopping industries, but she has to try and get away from debt collector Derek Smeath (Robert Stanton), she gets him away from her by saying he is an ex-boyfriend stalking her. As time goes by and they spend more time with each other, in interviews and elsewhere, Rebecca and Luke are falling in love, but she is still obsessively shopping, and not completely paying attention to her "shopaholics anonymous" group sessions, and her best friend Suze Cleath-Stewart (Krysten Ritter) has chosen her to be her bridesmaid for her wedding. Eventually everyone finds out about Rebecca's shopping habits when Smeath is on live television reading all her debts that she hasn't paid, and she lost the bridesmaid dress she needed which angers Suze, and offered a job with her dream company Alette, she declines. Rebecca sells off all her clothes that she had been hiding to pay off her debts, she gets back her bridesmaid dress, Luke starts new company Brandon Communications, she attends Suze's wedding which goes well, and Luke shows up to give Rebecca back her green scarf and they embrace their feelings. Also starring Joan Cusack as Jane Bloomwood, John Goodman as Graham Bloomwood, John Lithgow as Edgar West, Kristin Scott Thomas as Alette Naylor, Leslie Bibb as Alicia Billington, Fred Armisen as Ryan Koenig, Airplane!'s Julie Hagerty as Hayley, Lynn Redgrave as Drunken Lady at Ball, The Cabin in the Woods's Kristen Connolly as Girl in Pink and The Hangover's Ed Helms as Garret E. Barton. Fisher is suitably for the role of the girly girl with an obsession for quality fashion when bargains are on and has no thought for how much she is spending and feels the need to have almost everything in a store, Marsden is alright as her English love interest, I can agree with the two stars out of five the critics give, because the story is a bit predictable, the character personalities are annoying and obvious, the love story is mushy, and overall it just feels dull, a slightly disappointing romantic comedy. Okay!