It becomes a huge hit, and as she falls for Luke at the same time, things seem perfect. Trouble is, she’s got a nasty debt collector on her path, and the truth about her financial situation threatens to come to the surface.
Confessions tediously tiptoes through rom-com conventions, without ever taking a serious look at Rebecca’s addiction to shopping. That might have been interesting and funny; instead we get prepackaged “I see the error of my ways, and I’m going to become a better person” nonsense after Rebecca becomes caught up in her new lifestyle and hurts best friend Suze (Krysten Ritter, 27 Dresses).
The worst part is, the film utterly wastes a talented supporting cast, including John Goodman and Joan Cusack as Rebecca’s parents, Kristin Scott Thomas as fashion icon Alette and John Lithgow as a magazine publisher. None of these roles carry any substantive amount of screen time, and none of these characters make much of an impact.
Confessions of a Shopaholic is dreary, dull and devoid of anything good — perhaps it’s the right film for a recession after all.
The Confessions of a Shopaholic two-disc special edition is hardly special, and if you just have to own it, the single disc version ought to do just fine. The paltry amount of special features includes four unremarkable deleted scenes, a short blooper reel and a music video for “Stuck with Each Other” by Shontelle. The second disc is simply a digital copy.
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