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While it's not the brainiest film out there, and it's certainly not a classic, Confessions of a Shopaholic is a chick flick with a cast, a heart, and possibly some accidental cultural relevance. The movie stars Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a broke shopaholic. She's racked up thousands of dollars of debt with credit cards but doesn't have the money or the job to pay up those debts. So after she loses her job at a gardening magazine she finds a job with a savings magazine, and  irony hits hard with a confessed shopaholic writing columns that are supposed to teach her and people like her about resisting the urge to shop and saving their money instead of spending it. From here there's a romantic interest, (Hugh Dancy) and some twists and turns in a predictable story and that's really about it.

The best part of this movie is Fisher, she's funny and charming in her role as the naive Bloomwood and while she sells that naivety, she also makes the audience realize that she's actually a great writer and a smart person on top of that. Quite simply, Fisher sold the role completely and made the movie. Hugh Dancy did a good job as Fisher's romantic interest/ editor of the savings magazine. And the role actors all did good jobs with their characters. The cast was the strength of the movie.

Readers of the book will probably tell you that the book was better, but Fisher was awesome in this movie. And while it's something that's entirely predictable it's also not a bad chick-flick.