Confessions of a "Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)" -aholic

Referring to THE Ella Enchanted heartthrob Hugh Dancy as “20 dollar hotdog guy” is criminal

don’t even start with me. this movie is quite literally a cinematic masterpiece. nothing has ever topped it and i doubt anything ever will. isla fisher woke up one day in the late 2000s and knew she had to slay harder than anyone had dared to before.

I refuse to believe she only has $16k of credit card debt with all that designer clothing

“they go through all of Rebeca’s bills. All of her Williams.” That was brilliant. Took me a second, but brilliant.

I truly have so much respect for Hugh Dancy for spending a decade playing the bemused but charming love interest in mid-budget romcoms and then proceeding to go "You know what. For my next role I'm going to play a sweaty autistic little guy who wants to smooch Hannibal Lecter."

when the world needed him most, he returned

I actually liked that the mannequins still tak to her at the end, it shows that addiction is not just gone because you got a happy ending. She still needs to be wary of the demons that want her to spent all her money again.

"This is not a Bob. This is a Robert" Michael Microphone is doing it again. Iconic line

Hugh Dancy is a criminally underrated heartthrob. Like that man changed my whole life by introducing me to that posh accent and that basic brown hair, girlies were dying everywhere I looked. It was a war.

“That is not a bang. That is a boom” changed my life with that one Mike gotta be honest

First, I like how Derek is an antagonist but not a villain. He was only doing his job and I like how the movie showed how frustrating her behavior was to this guy. I also liked how even when making this comedy, they showed her shopping as an addiction. She tried to quit, but quickly relapsed. The first group leader relapsed and has to start over. You see the relationships she lost (at first) due to choosing her addiction over them. While the storyline of her working for a magazine she does not care about is “Beauty and the Briefcase”, I liked how it became more cathartic for her and understood her love of fashion through a new perspective. The writing of this film is surprisingly well done.

the fact that my psych teacher still constantly refers to this iconic movie when teaching us the role of dopamine in addictions HAHHAHAHHAH

Thank you Microphone Michael for reminding me that Confessions of a Shopaholic was not a shared delusion and was indeed a real movie

Mike joking about a Mike‘s Magazine like he didn’t fully design several iconic covers for the gossip girl videos 💀

Advice for anyone dealing with debt collectors, they aren't allowed to harass you. If you tell them they can't call you at work and they continue to do so, you can sue them. You should also check out your local/state laws because there might be more protections. The point is that Derek Smeath's harassment of Rebecca is illegal.

I'm sad you didn't include the moment when her dad mentions them living in Finland when she was little. I think it's implied that she actually grew up in Finland and they moved to the States and she forgot the language and it makes me emotional because in all the lies she tells, this one bit might be actually true :'))

I totally agree with you on the "bring back fun" point. I feel like everything nowadays has to be either biting satire or super dark. There's definitely a place for that but some of us want to have fun while watching things :)

The masters in mechanical engineering required to come up with all of these varying scenarios that conclude in “she ate” is a service to the community. Like, yes mike knows what the square root of 64 is cmon maths!

Omg, the NOSTALGIA. I was 15 when I discovered The Confessions of a Shopaholic BOOKS, yes, BOOKS. I was obsessed for years lmao. Also in the books, she never really gets past her addiction, it just changes and morphs. At first it's clothes, then it's wedding shit, then it's house stuff, then it's baby stuff etc (as she meets Luke, marry him, get a house together, then a baby etc)

fun fact: this is based on a 9-book series. she was indeed not cured. (and i wish they'd made more movies bc this was not enough isla fisher slaying)