365 Days. 365 Films.

Isla Fisher is Rebecca Bloomwood and, as the title suggests, she is a shopaholic. As should be expected, she quickly runs out of money and has to find a way to get more money as she struggles with her new budget. Isla Fisher was, at this stage, fairly new to Hollywood but, rightly so, it made her a star. Fisher is charming, sweet and funny as Rebecca and although her character is deceptively shallow at the start, Fisher delves into the role and brings Rebecca to life as someone the audience can thoroughly relate to and creating a much more emotional plot.

It isn’t the kind of film you would expect to feel so connect to and yet laugh at as much as it will make you laugh, but it truly is deceiving and the trailer really doesn’t do it justice. Director P. J. Hogan has successfully managed to reform the genre from something often explicitly about love to something which connects more appropriately and honestly to it’s female audience.

All in all it is worth seeing, although it’s audience is rather specific – I loved this film because it’s honest, not as clichéd as you would expect and very touching… You won’t like it if you don’t like girly films, you won’t like it if you’re pessimistic and you won’t like it if you dislike traditional, but not cliché dialogue.