by Steffi Rahardjo
Confession of a Shopaholic is a recently-released movie based on the best selling novel by my personal favorite author, Sophie Kinsella.
Although it didn't make a great achievement on BOX OFFICE, it surely did entertain alot of us in Indonesia.
I have watched it two times on different theaters and from my point of view, Isla Fisher brought up the fresh innocent Rebecca Bloomwood in a good way. I laughed pretty much the whole movie because Isla is really, i think, stupid! Maybe, Rebecca is the stupid one, but Isla does play her good enough to make me believe that she is probably stupid too! Haha..
Well, the movie is about Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) who has an addiction to shopping, but she never admits her addiction. She always get a blurry reasons to cover up her unstoppable passion for shopping. Until... her credit card debt comes and haunting her.
The worst thing happened after, the PLANT magazine where she's working is going to fired all of the workers because the magazine will be discontinue it products and about to broke.
Rebecca had her nightmare of Derek Smeathe , her debt collector, haunting her by phone everyday and she doesn't even want to look on her debts! Suze (Krysten Ritter), her kind roommate and best friend, helps her to manage her addiction and count her debts and found a shocking number at the end. Rebecca has got to find a job to pay her debts! So she applied to Alette magazine, but sadly the position she was looking for had been taken by Alicia Billington (Leslie Bibb). Ironicly, after several stupidity she had made, she is accepted to work at Financial magazine which lead by Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). And the story goes ...
You can get good laugh watching this movie, but also a good moral at the end of the movie. Where you can count on family and bestfriend when you have nobody else to hold on to.
P.J Hogan, director of Confession of a Shopaholic, obviously wanted to make an all-out comedy from this movie, so no wonder everything seems so stupid and funny even in a few sentimental moments between Luke and Rebecca.
Also, this movie brings alot of brand names such as CHANEL, YSL, PRADA, LOUBOUTIN, DENNY AND GEORGE and other high-class brands. Too bad, Hogan doesn't make the spotlight on the brands instead of the stores.
Although the original novel by Sophie Kinsella is very much better and far more detail than the movie, I think thanks to Isla's great performance, Confession of a Shopaholic succeeded the goal of create great comedy for every ages. Free to laugh!
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