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‘Shopaholic’ Comes Home

7 July 2009 836 views No Comment

Confessions of a Shopaholic is now on blu-ray, and while the disc is couture, you are largely paying for the label.

Based on the popular books by Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic looks like a million bucks on your TV screen. The image is crisp and the colors are bright – especially important with such a saturated film. For you techies, the video specs are 1080p, and the audio is 5.1 DTS-HD.

The extras are fun but, frankly, unimpressive, especially given the capacity of blu-ray. The bloopers reel is about three minutes of silly faces and flubbed lines cut together so fast, and often out of context, that it is sometimes hard to figure out what exactly was blooped. The handful of deleted scenes are delightful, especially the “Scarfity Scarf Scarf” clip. The only “behind-the-scenes” featurettes are all fashion-centric: an interview with costuming legend Patricia Fields; a look at the incredible shopping in NYC; how the wardrobe was chosen; filming the insane sample sale scene; and the importance of that green scarf. Interestingly, these featurettes are more accurately featurette-ettes – they are each no more than five minutes long.

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A handful of music videos, plus a digital copy of the film, round out the extras on this blu-ray set.



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