Chick Flick Heaven

With ‘Confessions Of A Shopaholic’ having hit the big screen last friday, let’s take a look at a collection of the biggest, girliest chick flicks of the past year.

Starting way back in March,

27 dresses

This film is for single women everywhere! Ever felt like the ever-present singleton at yet another wedding? Well this is exactly the case for our main girl, Jane (Katherine Heigl). Always a bridesmaid and never a bride. She may be the sad singleton with whom we sympathise, but she is eternally hopeful, that one day she will be the bride.

She has been the eager and dedicated bridesmaid 27 times, and has the dresses to prove it. With a wardrobe full of puff-ball madness and shimmering satin, her story starts to draw the attention of the sprightly Kevin (Josh Marsden), who, unlike our fair Jane, isn’t as optimistic about love. Ironically, he writes the ‘commitments’ column for the Sunday wedding section of the New York Journal. He is fascinated by Jane’s bridesmaid story and takes every opportunity he can to get his scoop of a story. But alas, the inevitable happens, love cynic Kevin realises that maybe, just maybe, he can feel love, and our single Jane, proves to women everywhere that the bridesmaid, can eventually become the bride!

Definitely, Maybe

The gorgeous Ryan Reynolds stars as the hapless Will, father of 10-year-old Maya(Abigail Breslin) who is having trouble dealing with why her parents are no longer in love. Her perfect picture of loving mummy and daddy isn’t what she has, she wants to know why. Will proceeds to tell her the story of how he met her mother but also of his love for two other women along the way. He changes the names of his three ladies in hopes that Maya can guess which one is her mother.

The film is real and portrays love in a different light. The script twists and turns telling us that love is something that is unpredictable and hard.

Like all good romantic-comedies, there is of course a happy ending, but its how we get there that is the heart of this film. Like Maya says in the film, "It's like a love story-mystery."

Sex and the City

The girls are back in town! With more shoes and handbags than I will own in a lifetime, Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha hit the screen to remind us just how much we adored the small screen delight.

The film is set four years after the TV series finale and each girl is still exactly where she wants to be: in love. Carrie and Big are shopping for apartments, Charlotte and Harry are happy parents, Miranda and Steve are still balancing work and play, and Samantha and Smith, are, well, Samantha and Smith!

But as the film progresses, as with any love story, their perfect lives start to show cracks. We see all four women go through all sorts of scenarios that a woman may encounter in her life, ranging from infidelity, pregnancy and not being appreciated.

Yet again, our Manolo wearing Carrie trips and falls thanks to ‘Big’. Will these two ever just be happy?

It is not until the last 10 minutes or so that we do find out if Carrie gets her fairytale ending, and it’s an ending worth waiting for.

The film is sexy, sentimental and, of course, tremendously materialistic. But so what? After all, all a girl wants are labels and love!

Well there you go! Three delectable films that score highly with women all over!