Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) I will confess that the major factor that brought me to this movie is Isla Fisher. She's adorable and she's also a pretty good comedic actress. (Check out in the way underrated
Hot Rod to see her at her goofy best.) This film is a chick-flick to the 10th degree. Shopping is treated with such reverence in this movie that I really had a hard time understanding what was going on. It's all cute and funny and mindless fluff...the way I like my movies, but I think you really need to be a woman (or gay) to really appreciate this movie. In it, Fisher gets a job writing for an investment magazine which is ironic because she knows nothing about saving money...in fact, she's in so much debt there is a debt collector out to get her. Fred Armisen, from
Saturday Night Live has a surprisingly straight role and there are nice appearances from John Goodman, Joan Cusack, and John Lithgow. But in the end, this is basically shopping porn.
The Lion King (1994) Believe it or not, my kids had not yet seen The Lion King. After a week of having characters from the movie shoved in their faces at Walt Disney World, they were really interested in seeing the film. I gotta admit, this is one of the Disney animated films that I don't hold as close to my heart as others. When it first came out I worked at a preschool. Somehow the school had got their hands on a horrible bootleg copy of the movie and it went on heavy rotation during afternoon pickup time. I must have seen it 100 times, then when it was officially released on video I had to see it another 100 times. It had been a while since I last saw it but this movie is really powerful and really holds up. I forgot how good it actually is! It's possibly one of the best constructed movies ever made! My kids loved it, they wanted to rewatch it the next day and now they want Lion King toys. It's like 1994 all over again in our house!
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) I will confess that the major factor that brought me to this movie is Isla Fisher. She's adorable and she's also a pretty good comedic actress. (Check out in the way underrated Hot Rod to see her at her goofy best.) This film is a chick-flick to the 10th degree. Shopping is treated with such reverence in this movie that I really had a hard time understanding what was going on. It's all cute and funny and mindless fluff...the way I like my movies, but I think you really need to be a woman (or gay) to really appreciate this movie. In it, Fisher gets a job writing for an investment magazine which is ironic because she knows nothing about saving money...in fact, she's in so much debt there is a debt collector out to get her. Fred Armisen, from Saturday Night Live has a surprisingly straight role and there are nice appearances from John Goodman, Joan Cusack, and John Lithgow. But in the end, this is basically shopping porn.
The Lion King (1994) Believe it or not, my kids had not yet seen The Lion King. After a week of having characters from the movie shoved in their faces at Walt Disney World, they were really interested in seeing the film. I gotta admit, this is one of the Disney animated films that I don't hold as close to my heart as others. When it first came out I worked at a preschool. Somehow the school had got their hands on a horrible bootleg copy of the movie and it went on heavy rotation during afternoon pickup time. I must have seen it 100 times, then when it was officially released on video I had to see it another 100 times. It had been a while since I last saw it but this movie is really powerful and really holds up. I forgot how good it actually is! It's possibly one of the best constructed movies ever made! My kids loved it, they wanted to rewatch it the next day and now they want Lion King toys. It's like 1994 all over again in our house!
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