Chick Flick Tuesday: Confessions of a Shopaholic
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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August 31st, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Hi, I completely loved this film, I didn’t mind that becky was american I think that was a great idea. I love hugh being Luke it worked so well. This is one of my top 5 films and I could watch it over and over again! 10/10
I actually perfered the film to the book.
August 31st, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I did not like the movie at all. I was so disappointed because first of all they made it take place in America and second of all they put different parts of different books together into one movie. That did not really work out for me. It did not feel like the stories I was reading in the shopaholic books before and I absolutely loved the books!
But I guess, this is kind of a general problem with turning books into movies. All readers have their own imagination about how the characters look like and that is great! Using your own imagination makes it special for yourself! But there is always the risk that a movie completely contradicts your imagination. I am always unsure if I should watch a movie made out of a book I really liked because I do not want to risk ruining the story for me through the movie. In some cases the movies worked out but in some, they just ruin my imagination…
August 31st, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I really enjoyed the film but I do have a bee in my bonnet about setting the film in America. If they were going to cast someone who wasn’t american, who could probably do an English accent as well as she could do an american, why make Becky american? That was the frustrating part for me.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:38 am
I wish the movie would have been set in Europe but the movie was still cute. The girl they cast to play Becky wasn’t anything like the Becky in my head but I still thought she was cute. Hugh Dancy, as much as I love him, I didn’t like him as Luke for some reason.
September 1st, 2010 at 6:22 am
I agree with most of you. I had such high expectations and this movie did not match how i felt about the book at all.
September 1st, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I think my hopes were too high after loving the book so much. I still enjoy the film and think Isla is a great Becky, but she should be British!!!!
September 28th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
I was most disappointed with the movie. I absolutely loved the book, and looked forward to the movie very much. It should have taken place in Britain, and they should have included more of the cute/hilarious highlights from the book. I agree, Hugh did not suit Luke’s character at all.