Since November 2009Chick Flick Tuesday: Confessions of a Shopaholic
Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 by Chloe
Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!
Due to it being ‘Sophie Kinsella Week’ here on Chicklitreviews.com, it can’t be any other movie for Chick Flick Tuesday than Confessions of a Shopaholic! The film is of course based on the first ever Shopaholic book by Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and has had fans divided over it ever since it was released a few years ago!
Chloe: Personally, I quite enjoyed it, it was funny and kept me amused, but I think Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon was miscast, and that it could have been a lot better! However, people who haven’t read the book will probably enjoy it (I know quite a few of these people who have really liked it), and it’s a fun enough watch! Whether you have loved or hated the film - do comment and let us know! - it was a long time coming for fans of the book, and I for one am glad it happened!
Leah: I actually didn’t like the movie. I was so much looking forward to it and I had such high expectations that I was just incredibly disappointed with the outcome. I just don’t understand why they decided to make Becky an American. It didn’t work for me, not when Becky is quintessentially British. I also felt Hugh Dancy was wildly mis-cast as Luke Brandon. Does he really look like someone who could be CEO of a huge company? No, I didn’t think so. They needed someone a bit stronger who could have a bit more of a force in the film, someone in the mold of David Boreanaz. For me, it was ruined the moment they decided to make it into a run-of-the-mill American chick flick.
Danielle: To be honest, I quite disliked this version of one of my favorite books ever. Being an American, I actually quite like British films and literature, and though I’m not opposed to “American” films I wish they would have stuck with the “British” feel from the book. In that way it seemed to lack a bit in the romance department and lean a bit too heavily on campy-humor. It was definitely still a very fun film, but if you have to choose, I’d say go with the book!
“Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom - but she’s never looked better! She has a fabulous flat in New York’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is that she can’t actually afford any of it.
Her job writing for a financial magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. Hounded by letters from her credit card company Becky tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds.
Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyses a chain of events that will transform her life and the lives of those around her forever.”
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As well as finding out why YOU love Sophie Kinsella, we decided to ask some authors and people in the publishing world why they love Sophie Kinsella as well, just to see if she had huge appeal amongst her fellow authors too, so here we go!
Kate Johnson: “She wrote such a lovely hero in Luke that I named my own favourite hero after him!”
