Then I watched CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC. Well, comedy is something for individual tastes. I was hoping for a light, fun little romp, and I found it to be heavy-handed, clumsily directed, and rather lame in terms of humor. What a fabulous cast has been assembled for this, but it just didn't work for me for much of it, and the story's manipulation of a "cure" for her and turning down her dream job (and one she would have been perfect for) just didn't ring true.
I did like the "living mannequins," thought that was a bit of inspired surrealism, and Hugh Dancy did his best to play straight man to the ridiculous lunacy going on around him. I was very disappointed in Isla Fisher who was just so frenetic in her desperate bid for laughs. And the character just made me mad owing $16,000 and rather than becoming responsible, just decided to be creative in the ways of dodging her debt (like the people she owed didn't need the money or have their own bills to pay). I didn't find that funny.