Confessions of a Shopaholic
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
16
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91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Breathless and petite yet powerfully in-your-face, Fisher combines dizzy femininity and no-nonsense verve in the manner of a classic screwball heroine. She's like Carole Lombard reborn as a tiny angel-faced dynamo. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerAthima Chansanchai
If cheesy, feel-good riches-to-reason romantic comedies are yours, this is your fix. It's a harmless indulgence that, like shopping, may make you feel good for the short term, but later you'll need more. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It glories in its silliness, and the actors are permitted the sort of goofy acting that distinguished screwball comedy. We get double takes, slow burns, pratfalls, exploding clothes wardrobes, dropped trays, tear-away dresses, missing maids of honor, overnight fame, public disgrace and not, amazingly, a single obnoxious cat or dog. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This movie has no light to shed on the matter. It is its own contradiction: a film about confessions in which nothing much is confessed. Read full review
63
PremiereKrista Soriano
As unrealistic as the talking mannequins, but we’re pleasantly surprised by how good this movie makes us feel. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
The degree to which Shopaholic actually works is a testament to the looks, charm, and comedic chops of Fisher, who stole "Wedding Crashers" and has a gift for slapstick that places her somewhere between Téa Leoni and Lucille Ball in the pantheon of foxy redheaded physical comediennes. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
As a young lady who can't say no to a beautiful dress or accessory, Isla Fisher is not to be denied, and her irrepressible comic personality overcomes a number of the film's impediments. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The film's recycled nature is most evident in director P.J. Hogan's attempt to marry the farcical hijinks of an "I Love Lucy" episode to an addiction scenario that would not be out of place in "The Lost Weekend." Read full review
50
Washington PostJohn Anderson
Rebecca may owe everybody for everything, but Fisher definitely owns the movie. She is the only one outside of Ritter who gives a bona fide performance. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Confessions is no more than a painless time-waster. But the beguiling Fisher is well worth the investment. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Though you might wonder whether there's room in a movie marketplace that already feels overstocked with romantic comedies, Confessions of a Shopaholic arrives fashionably late and dressed to kill. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The problem nipping at the designer heels of Confessions is not the state of the economy but, rather, the film's predictability. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
It's not the retro attitudes in "Confessions" that bother me (at least not much). It's the lack of laughs. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
There are some mildly amusing turns from costars like Kristin Scott Thomas, playing an icy editor, and Robert Stanton, as her frustrated debt collector. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The problem with Confessions of a Shopaholic isn't conspicuous consumption. It's ostentatious idiocy. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
A thin, largely unfunny comedy that marries lazy filmmaking with bad timing. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
If the movie didn't pander so madly to the audience for "Sex and the City" and "Legally Blonde," it might have been a comedy touchstone instead of a cringeworthy footnote. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The end product is surprisingly charmless -- a shrill "Devil Wears Prada"/"Bridget Jones"/"Sex and the City" knockoff that keeps threatening to fall apart at the seams. Read full review
30
SalonThomas Rogers
A loud, garish and very untimely romantic comedy. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The production renders totally irrelevant all hopes for a well-made movie. It's one of those ragged, pandemonious studio comedies that hammers at plot points in every contrived scene. Read full review
30
SlateDana Stevens
If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the current financial crisis, the film starts to mutate from a not-that-funny comedy into a tragic allegory. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Put this one back on the shelf, and walk away. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
I think that the perfect name for the chick in a chick flick is Rebecca Bloomwood. I know that if Charles Dickens had possessed the good sense to write chick flicks, he could not have done better than Rebecca Bloomwood. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Not only is it an unfunny movie shrilly told, it probably is the most ill-timed and appallingly insulting movie in recent memory. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Confessions of a Shopaholic -- a "Devil Wears Prada" for Chico's customers. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleReyhan Harmanci
It's a shame that "Confessions" doesn't aim higher because there is a great film to be made about the consumer bait-and-switch that has led so many Americans to live beyond their means. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazinePerry Seibert
Lets down both its actress and the audience. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The comedy is slapstick, the colors Day Glo, the outcome inevitable. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It has been a long time since I came as close to walking out of a movie as I did with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Not only did I find this production to be irritating, unfunny, and lacking in entertainment value, but I found its underlying slavishness to a culture of consumption to be morally repugnant. Read full review
20
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope. Read full review
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