Confessions of a "Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)" -aholic
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don’t even start with me. this movie is quite literally a cinematic masterpiece. nothing has ever topped it and i doubt anything ever will. isla fisher woke up one day in the late 2000s and knew she had to slay harder than anyone had dared to before.
Thank you for speaking up on something we’ve all been thinking about!!!
you speak the truth queen
I love Isla in Bachelorette, she's pretty wild in there lmao
true true
You are very correct. I spent two years of my life thinking about re-naming my fashion blog “Girl in the green scarf” 😂
Referring to THE Ella Enchanted heartthrob Hugh Dancy as “20 dollar hotdog guy” is criminal
it’s diabolical and dastardly. hugh dancy is the loml
THE Will Graham, 2014 Tumblr Darling
!!!!
honestly very girlboss of him
He's literally the main character in Hannibal. Seeing him in Ella Enchanted DANCING AND SINGING......was rolling around laughing. Screaming even. Iconic.
I refuse to believe she only has $16k of credit card debt with all that designer clothing
right i thought she would in fact be £161k in debt😭
Inflation😭
The book was published in 2000 and as you read it you realise how much less expensive designer goods were then, pre-inflation. She mentions £20k could by 52 Gucci watches, today (at cheapest price) approx 20 Gucci watches
It was an established thing that she got a lot of her things on sale.
“they go through all of Rebeca’s bills. All of her Williams.” That was brilliant. Took me a second, but brilliant.
Wait can you explain it to me?
@@MadelineClaireBill as a nickname for William
I truly have so much respect for Hugh Dancy for spending a decade playing the bemused but charming love interest in mid-budget romcoms and then proceeding to go "You know what. For my next role I'm going to play a sweaty autistic little guy who wants to smooch Hannibal Lecter."
Goodbye 🤭💀
I was looking for THIS comment 😂🖤🫂
he has the range
I’m obsessed with this fact
RIGHT?
when the world needed him most, he returned
And I've BEEN waiting😭
I stand by this comment.
only Michael Microphone, master of all teen drama, can save the pop world
We've been waiting
I NEEDED his contents sooo bad... he's now a part of my makeup routine...
"This is not a Bob. This is a Robert"
Michael Microphone is doing it again. Iconic line
I actually liked that the mannequins still tak to her at the end, it shows that addiction is not just gone because you got a happy ending. She still needs to be wary of the demons that want her to spent all her money again.
“That is not a bang. That is a boom” changed my life with that one Mike gotta be honest
Followed by, "that's not a bob, that's a ROBERT"...iconic
truly
Hugh Dancy is a criminally underrated heartthrob. Like that man changed my whole life by introducing me to that posh accent and that basic brown hair, girlies were dying everywhere I looked. It was a war.
He is truly beautiful.
he's literally so babygirl im in love with him
Immediately ran to the comments for hugh dancy appreciation. My favorite story will always be him getting voted as prettiest boy AND prettiest girl at Oxford, he is so stunningly pretty
@@mintyhoang God, he really is just so gender like that
literally insanely gorgeous. cant tell if i want him or i want to be him (transition goals fr)
First, I like how Derek is an antagonist but not a villain. He was only doing his job and I like how the movie showed how frustrating her behavior was to this guy.
I also liked how even when making this comedy, they showed her shopping as an addiction. She tried to quit, but quickly relapsed. The first group leader relapsed and has to start over. You see the relationships she lost (at first) due to choosing her addiction over them.
While the storyline of her working for a magazine she does not care about is “Beauty and the Briefcase”, I liked how it became more cathartic for her and understood her love of fashion through a new perspective.
The writing of this film is surprisingly well done.
yess! In the book Derek even offered to help her make a payment plan and tried to get so many meetings with Rebecca to sort out her debt. He's not a bad guy, this public humiliation was just his last resort of getting her to pay
@@robin0135oh my lord i forget there was a confessions book.
i feel like part of the success of chickflicks like devil wears prada and confession is that they were based on a book first, and i feel like book QC through the 90s and 00s were much higher than they are today. plus, chickflicks not being high stakes box offices prolly also translated to less higher-up meddling. so not only did the screenwriters already got a solid foundation to build from, they're also able to translate the story from one medium to another without worrying too much about anything else.
this all just a speculation though lol. but that's kinda the vibe that i get.
I was actually on his side my second time watching this movie because I would be annoyed too if someone was making my job that much more difficult and it’s already such a boring, tedious job😭
I mean most of what Derek did is absolutely illegal and he would 100% lose his job if Becks reported how he was harassing her and I get that she was a stubborn case but in general those kind of people at jobs like this annoy me, like dude it’s not your personal money she owes, so chill out there are definitely protocols in place for people who don’t pay their debt that don’t include harassment
@@V_4_Versace i don’t why, but derek feels like bubbles from lilo and stich. “I am the one that people go to when things go wrong. From what I see things are very wrong”.
But get that he really wants to nail this girl especially after he started using every protocol possible.
the fact that my psych teacher still constantly refers to this iconic movie when teaching us the role of dopamine in addictions HAHHAHAHHAH
Absolute icon
Thank you Microphone Michael for reminding me that Confessions of a Shopaholic was not a shared delusion and was indeed a real movie
Reality is a shared delusion, everyone knows that.
So true
MICROPHONE MICHAEL 😂😂😂
naw why'd you use his goverment name 😭😭😭😭
Mike joking about a Mike‘s Magazine like he didn’t fully design several iconic covers for the gossip girl videos 💀
LITERALLY
Advice for anyone dealing with debt collectors, they aren't allowed to harass you. If you tell them they can't call you at work and they continue to do so, you can sue them. You should also check out your local/state laws because there might be more protections. The point is that Derek Smeath's harassment of Rebecca is illegal.
I read the book this movie is based on last summer, and in that one I feel like the "harassment" makes a lot more sense. Derek doesn't call Rebecca's workplace but her parents because she also put them on her banking info, and he was just genuinely worried about her financial situation and was trying to help her out.
@@myrtaleellery fair enough. I was just saying that within the context of the movie, this is actual harassment and they’re not allowed to do that.
@@myrtaleelleryohh what’s the book called?
@@desteny1393what do you honestly think it’s called babe??
@@maddieb.4282 damn😭 many times the book and movie don’t have the same name but thanks for the answer I guess
I'm sad you didn't include the moment when her dad mentions them living in Finland when she was little. I think it's implied that she actually grew up in Finland and they moved to the States and she forgot the language and it makes me emotional because in all the lies she tells, this one bit might be actually true :'))
I totally agree with you on the "bring back fun" point. I feel like everything nowadays has to be either biting satire or super dark. There's definitely a place for that but some of us want to have fun while watching things :)
the barbie movie is coming to save us
i actually think theres been a lot of fun films in recent years, people just seem to have trouble finding them bc there are just more films in general ig
@@chickenfoot2423got any reccs? i try to think of fun movies released in the past decade but all i can think of are movies like mad max, john wick, man from u.n.c.l.e, and knives out, lol. they're all defo fun movies, but like, a different kind of fun than chick flicks, y'know? (i do tend to keep up more with movies like this though, tbf, hence why i can't think of anything else lol.)
@@mophead_xu I just drown myself in k-dramas. They still have that whimsy about them. Not taking everything too seriously or too realistically especially rom coms.
@@mophead_xusame, the only one I remember that has that vibe is Do revenge
The masters in mechanical engineering required to come up with all of these varying scenarios that conclude in “she ate” is a service to the community. Like, yes mike knows what the square root of 64 is cmon maths!
he's a genius for those
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
~ Aristotle
@@philosophy_bot4171in philosophy bot we trust
Omg, the NOSTALGIA. I was 15 when I discovered The Confessions of a Shopaholic BOOKS, yes, BOOKS. I was obsessed for years lmao. Also in the books, she never really gets past her addiction, it just changes and morphs. At first it's clothes, then it's wedding shit, then it's house stuff, then it's baby stuff etc (as she meets Luke, marry him, get a house together, then a baby etc)
Holy shit same!! I was obsessed with the books and Sophie Kinsella but never watched this movie. I don't even remember their plots lol
flgdlk came here to comment this. i literally found the book in an alley, someone threw it and a bunch of books in the trash and i took them when i was like 13 and read them. i was so embarassed cause i wasnt a girly girl but i loved the books!
Mike's sense of humor will literally never get old for me. I feel like he just says everything that we're all thinking but in the most clever ways and I adore it always. I will never get sick of the word "slay" coming out of this man's mouth. Continue Mike. You are an icon and a legend.
i literally have learned so many words, it's like a new dialect for me and I love that. He truly has say-anything-itis and he is a major corporal in the idgaf war 💅
breaking the credit card out the block of ice was so iconic it's why i keep a hidden few twenties in case of an emergency
There is a short horror story in wi h a guy hides the cursed item on a block of ice so he doesnt touch it sleepwalking and im convinced that he took the idea from here
@@shortinsomniac76Joshua Gillespie the KING
And then I forget about the 20s
Wait me too
She froze her assets 👀
Mike’s minute long rant about that one lady’s silver bob is all I need for my economics exam
fun fact: this is based on a 9-book series. she was indeed not cured. (and i wish they'd made more movies bc this was not enough isla fisher slaying)
I read the first book when this movie came out. I was in 6th grade and such a nerd I had to read the book first.
The scariest part of this video was realising Mike must not have seen Hannibal since you dont know who hugh dancy is 😢
petition for mike to watch hannibal
Mike mentioned in his Scream video that he's not great with gore, so if he sees Hannibal he's gonna need warnings for like 1000 timestamps
This genuinely a really good romcom, I watched it recently & was like "IS THAT WILL FROM HANNIBAL?????" when the love interest was introduced. Man's got range
i had forgotten how culturally significant confessions of a shopaholic was
The thing I love most about this movie (other than Hugh Dancy) is that each character feels very fleshed out whether they were on screen for 2 minutes or 2 hours.
random piece of trivia: the woman who's the shopaholic's anonymous second leader I instantly recognized as a character in CSI, specifically an episode in where she murdered her husband for being into diaper play. Don't really know if that's a fun fact but it's something.
This masterpiece is finally getting the respect it deserves! If only you talked about “Wild Child” too. That film was my entire personality in my early teens. Thanks, love❤️
Btw, where is the long awaited deep dive on Lost? Girls are dying for some highbrow content
Wild child is certified iconic
WILD CHILD IS A MUST ❤️ yasss
YESSS! i literally rewatch wild child every year :')
Yes please that film is iconic
This and at Trinian's 1&2 goddamn iconic
Mike worrying that his younger audience might not know what a cheque is, is the same way I feel about how I feel about the obsolete presence of knowledge about One direction for pre-teens!!!
Righttt I’m waiting for them to discover 1D and bring back fan edits of them
I've been seeing people referring to them as "od" and I was so shocked that there's people who don't know it's 1d. I kept reading it as overd*se 🧍🏻♀️
as a perth girlie, i am absolutely obsessed with this gal who went to perth modern (basically this super exclusive, can only get into if you're the smartest of the smart, school) playing only the ditziest (affectionate) characters she can find
WAIT SHE WENT TO PERTH MOD???
This is like my favorite movie from the 2000s I'm so serious. I watched it RELIGIOUSLY as a kid. I'm actually surprised my family didn't clock anything from this being my favorite movie as a kid lol
awwww
i sometimes feel like this movie was a fever dream because no one ever remembers it so it’s nice to know someone else was obsessed like me 😭
Same. This movie is my safe haven
Literally same!!! My brother and I would watch it all the time
dressed as only a movie connoisseur can, truly doing god's work for us. thank you michael's microphone.
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate"
~ Carl Jung
As a Finnish person, the way Mike pronounces Finland gives me a serotonin boost✨
yEin!
evämaa fr
“All of her bills. All of her Williams” was too good
"You speak Prada??" reminded me of those guys who ask women "you play videogames??"
An absolutely iconic movie covered by an absolutely iconic legend 😩
ICONIC
My personal finance teacher showed us this movie to teach us about credit and to explain debt collectors. PSA Derek Smeath has broken several laws
Honestly this movie is so slept on. It’s a bit of a specific genre of cinema, but it really delivers what the genre requires it to deliver if not more. Idk how people feel about Isla but I looove the way she fills out her roles. I think it’s also different enough from other similar films in the genre to feel different, while being well produced. The people behind the making of this movie clearly cared about the end product!
Fun Fact : this movie is based on a series of books, there's the first one of which the movie is based on, and there are 7 sequels :
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Shopaholic & Sister
Shapaholic & Baby
Mini Shopaholic
Shopaholic on Honeymoon
Shopaholic to the Stars
Shopaholic to the Rescue
Christmas Shopaholic
When I was a kid, I read all the way up to Mini Shopaholic, then I relized I had a problem and detoxed
But the point is... she never learned anything, ever. The series is just about a life long struggle with addiction.
i feel like the overall worth of hugh dancy was NOT talked about. my will graham heart is crying
I was obsessed with that movie as a teen and I watched it so many times, its been ingrained in my bain so deep that nowadays every time someone says "don´t answer" when i get a phone call I automatically follow with "its derek smith" in that scary whisper tone, and I yearn for the day someone understands that very obscure reference, so far no one has :(
🤣 love it! My other favorite line was when Derek Smeath let her know the phone calls were up and he’d be giving her personal contact 😂
I always forget how charming Hugh Dancy exists until he shows up in a random movie or TV show.
I like that she didn't have fallen into the stereotype of “ not like other girls” when it was pretty popular in early 2000.
Jessie Ware making it into the Mike's Mic dictionary of phrases has truly confirmed to me that she's made it big
I knauurrrr, right??
I never understood the Jessie Ware hype until her new album !!!
Wait when was it?
@@mollymatthews215812:49 !!
"that's not a bang, that's a boom" is going to be my new sentence for everything
In the books, Suze married her cousin and I'll never forget reading that at 11
Watching this movie in class was part of my financial literacy curriculum. The other 90% of the class was Dave Ramsey shaming poor people for not living on saltines in order to not go into debt.
dave ramsey pisses me off bad
Is it really that informing and educational?🤔
@@Funky_Hernandezread the comment again and you tell me
Lmaooo I hated Dave Ramsey with the way my teacher practically salivated over anything he said
Miss Alette had a point when she said “I’m so tired of vertical buttonholes.” #GameChanger #TheMoreYouKnow
Of course I read that as buttholes at first. Of course.
@@xLiLlyx98 HAHAHA best reply.
Not only did this movie have an unreleased piece of Gaga media, it actually has two versions of the same song “Bad Girl”. Recorded by Rihanna, but after her drama with Chris brown it was remade NOTE FOR NOTE by The Pussycat Dolls . This movie is so iconic, It has an one unreleased original song and two Released identical songs
“drama” he BEAT her 😭😭
drama... yeah that's not it
i kinda want Mike to talk about Cruella(2021) bc yeah that movie was a Mess & revisionist history but .... the FASHION . its unbelievable
Quote of the Day: “He’s ‘Fashion? I don’t give a f**k’ presenting. He actually knows a lot.”
When Mike’s serving looks like that you KNOW we’re talking about a fashion movie 😌
I'll never get over how they changed the whole vibe for me because in the book she's in London and in the movie she's in New York. Like that's a whole different story!
Mike! Veronica Mars might be perfect for you to cover if you’re ever looking for another teen drama to recap in an appropriately unhinged fashion. I started rewatching it with my brother around the same time my husband and I started rewatching PLL, and I couldn’t believe how many random specific little plot details PLL totally copied from VM haha.
Oh and Krysten Ritter (aka Suze, whom we all ❤) ends up being a big player in Veronica Mars season 2, that’s what made me comment about it. Kk anyway, keep slaying bby!
Your life sounds fun, watching Veronica Mars with your brother and PLL with your husband. I love this ❤😂
she was also in Breaking Bad 😭✋️
@@stuffwithsoph8264 Like the saddest character arc of all time! 😭
@@arareanddifferenttune3130 Lmao wow, thanks for reminding me how lucky I am for this actually. We’re planning a group rewatch of Twin Peaks soon to complete the teenage girl murder mystery trifecta. ❤️💀 For some reason it’s the perfect niche genre for getting our minds off everything that sucks.
@@app1escruff hmm idk i would say jessie is competition but yess jane got done so dirty
This film contributed to my money anxieties and fear of debt ✨🥰
I literally read these books as like a preteen and was always so upset that she was just lying and finessing her fine, rich husband. Like she never changes and it’s just gross and I was hella mad. Like if it was alcohol or drugs it wouldn’t be nearly as cute and I was annoyed she was just enabled and looked fabulous deep in her addiction and rich life 😂😂😂
I mean I guess this is what makes the movie a bit better to watch since she does actually change in the end
I'd say she gets better in the much, much later books. Her shopping habit is less destructive. But it's worth noting this a book series in which the character, Suze, marries her cousin... It's weird
@@samanthanorton4538 I feel like they did that because book Suze was old money rich with a weird family but still, that was a choice
yeah i remember reading the first book in the series and hating it. never bothered to read the rest of them.
I quit at the very beginning of the one where she's pregnant, when she suddenly wanted to drop her ob-gyn she'd been seeing for months because she heard some women in a store talking about a super exclusive (& basically"fashionable" lol) doctor and she wanted that one instead.
I’m very happy you brought up the unreleased Gaga song! My arch nemesis in high school, the only other out gay kid in 2010, tried to gaslight me into thinking Fashion was by Pixie Lott after i found it and downloaded it before him. I always knew i was right! What a shitbag.
epic slay moment for you
This is hilarious. 😂 shitbag indeed
the description of the silver bob had me in stitches omg “this is not a bob, this is a robert” “that thing is structurally sound” “to put simply, professor x could not read her mind”
this video literally cleared my skin and helped me prepare for my exams
mike thank you
Fashion is honestly one o my fave gaga songs and it kills me that it's not officialy released. so good quality rips or remixes are a bit harder to come by than other songs. But somehow it manages to be such a mood. it's like... gender envy but not quite? A femenine version ZZtops sharp dressed man - vibes. Put it on and imagine all your fashinable faves slaying up and down the runway. iconic, irreplaceable and yet so elusive and ethereal
how didn't i know that fashion wasn't officially released??? i know it by heart cuz when i was 11 my dance group had a big choreography and showcase to that song. kinda slay tbh
as a fan of the book series (up till a certain point anyway, it got repetitive after “Shopaholic & Baby”) and _definitely_ spent a lot of time religiously rereading the books - i’m an English major but Shopaholic is my comfort turn-off-the-brain series, and it helps that Rebecca is a genuinely likable protagonist for all her spending - i was quite impressed with the movie. it changed quite a lot of things (setting it in NYC, for a start, and at the start of the book Rebecca was already working in financial journalism where in the movie she accidentally gets into it) but the changes worked in favour of the movie, made it a solid standalone. Rebecca’s character arc was still more or less the same, and the movie was just genuinely entertaining. Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy were _so_ charming!
why is this my comfort video, I just keep coming back for mike's commentary for this movie
It’s so good tbh
another banger for the Mike's Mic movie review era
I remember every part of this movie better than my own childhood. The company names and character profiles are engraved onto my mind like they roll so well when read out loud.
I would absolutely be down for a
Mike’s Magazine. A Mikezine if you will. Filled all the info you need to totally slay every day.
"this is not a Bob. It's a Robert." ICONIC
this movie slays. and hugh dancy specifically in this movie is one of those people i will never not find attractive and adorable.
I always wondered how Luke knew that the green scarf was the one she bought?? I mean did he remember what she was wearing before?? If I was her I would’ve immediately started gaslighting to secure that job💅
Ps dropped everything to watch this you slayed as always bestie 💖
I’m pretty sure she did try to gaslight him 💀
oh my god yes. this is the movie that kickstarted 10 year old me’s tendency to hyperfixate on things because I watched it every day for 2 weeks straight. I’m a full grown adult and I still watch it every couple of months to this DAY. it changed the trajectory of my life forever and I only have miss girlboss isla fisher to thank
I have this movie on DVD (because of course I do) and the ENTIRE score just slays. Even the background song in the menu is amazing (it's Blue Jeans by Jessie James, by the way). This movie was basically my personality for an entire year after it came out.
Watched it for Hugh Dancy, stayed for the sillyism
I unironically love this movie I think it’s so underrated
26:37 AUCTION OFF THE GLEE BOARD MIKE DON'T BE SHY
mike may not have been invited to the met gala but he still woke up and decided to absolutely serve in this video
Mike the references were especially amazing today, the Spanish dubbing of Kelly Osborne is next level
"Yas corporate slowburn" murdered me
praying for a mike's mic legally blonde recap - however I don't think us mere mortals could cope
What always pissed me off is when Rebecca is “forced” to donate the dresses. If I was in that situation I would just say fuck you and take my dresses. The new leader can’t actually force her to do anything. She can just find a new group it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
"That's not a bang, that's a BOOM." Stop the video. I died😭
Thank you Michael Microphone for another fashion movie ruview 🤠
Literally my two favourite things (2000s romcoms, and Hugh Dancy) mixed into one, this movie is ICONIC
this movie gaGED me it’s so fun and witty. we NEED more made movies in the photo/journalism/fashion spaces made today. they are all so fun and interesting
the way my child mind decided that isla fisher and amy adams were the same person after watching this movie and enchanted (in my defense, we got both movies from a really shady dvd rental place and the quality was dubious at best)
I, ABSOLUTELY, would tune in to a monthly subscription of Mike’s Magazine
Ahhhhh we LURVE an arrested development reference
I guote “for it is cold, and i have…hands!” All the time 😩
When you get "that" notification on your phone and proceed to damn near drop And break your phone trying to get to the video... Mike's Mic worth it EVERYTIME!
This movie shaped my whole personality and it was criminal and diabolical how no one had reviewed it yet, I'm glad it was you. ❤
The way that every word is both necessary and hilarious is something I literally never see anywhere else on the internet. You deserve like twenty awards to start. Thank you for your mind
I swear to god, Mike is one of the funniest people on CZcams. I've never even seen half the shows or movies he talks about but I feel like I completely get the. because of the way he explains things.
I screamed and spat when will Graham turned up out of nowhere.
this is one of my favorite movies of all time. thank you for recognizing true greatness.
"so she walks down the street exhibiting mental illness talking to the mannequins" 😂
"4 plus 4. 5176 divided by 647 - ATE. " changed my life
JUSTICE for my favourite romcom. Rotten tomatoes score is absolutely CRIMINAL
Omg I literally watched this movie a week ago cause I remembered how ICONIC it was, had to watch it on a dingy website bc it’s not on any platforms and now I see microphone approves of it??? Obsessed
6:22 She’s a pathological liar yet is brutally honest sometimes.
luke brandon being played by will graham from nbc hannibal is the final slay like they did that for me personally and i didnt even know it at the time
There’s always money in the banana stand - I live for the Arrested Development reference.