when the world needed him most, he returned

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.

I refuse to believe she only has $16k of credit card debt with all that designer clothing

“they go through all of Rebeca’s bills. All of her Williams.” That was brilliant. Took me a second, but brilliant.

Referring to THE Ella Enchanted heartthrob Hugh Dancy as “20 dollar hotdog guy” is criminal

“That is not a bang. That is a boom” changed my life with that one Mike gotta be honest

"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.

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."

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.

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.

the fact that my psych teacher still constantly refers to this iconic movie when teaching us the role of dopamine in addictions HAHHAHAHHAH

Thank you Microphone Michael for reminding me that Confessions of a Shopaholic was not a shared delusion and was indeed a real movie

Mike joking about a Mike‘s Magazine like he didn’t fully design several iconic covers for the gossip girl videos 💀

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'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 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!

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.

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)

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

Mike’s minute long rant about that one lady’s silver bob is all I need for my economics exam

The scariest part of this video was realising Mike must not have seen Hannibal since you dont know who hugh dancy is 😢

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

As a Finnish person, the way Mike pronounces Finland gives me a serotonin boost✨

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!!!

dressed as only a movie connoisseur can, truly doing god's work for us. thank you michael's microphone.

“All of her bills. All of her Williams” was too good

I always forget how charming Hugh Dancy exists until he shows up in a random movie or TV show.

"You speak Prada??" reminded me of those guys who ask women "you play videogames??"

An absolutely iconic movie covered by an absolutely iconic legend 😩

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

"that's not a bang, that's a boom" is going to be my new sentence for everything

I like that she didn't have fallen into the stereotype of “ not like other girls” when it was pretty popular in early 2000.

Miss Alette had a point when she said “I’m so tired of vertical buttonholes.” #GameChanger #TheMoreYouKnow

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.

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

Jessie Ware making it into the Mike's Mic dictionary of phrases has truly confirmed to me that she's made it big

i feel like the overall worth of hugh dancy was NOT talked about. my will graham heart is crying

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!

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 :(

Quote of the Day: “He’s ‘Fashion? I don’t give a f**k’ presenting. He actually knows a lot.”

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.

In the books, Suze married her cousin and I'll never forget reading that at 11

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!

When Mike’s serving looks like that you KNOW we’re talking about a fashion movie 😌

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 😂😂😂

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!

"this is not a Bob. It's a Robert." ICONIC

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.

This film contributed to my money anxieties and fear of debt ✨🥰

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.

26:37 AUCTION OFF THE GLEE BOARD MIKE DON'T BE SHY

another banger for the Mike's Mic movie review era

this video literally cleared my skin and helped me prepare for my exams mike thank you

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.

mike may not have been invited to the met gala but he still woke up and decided to absolutely serve in this video

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

Watched it for Hugh Dancy, stayed for the sillyism

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

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”

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.

Thank you Michael Microphone for another fashion movie ruview 🤠

"that is not a bang, that is a boom" absolutely killed me

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!

this movie slays. and hugh dancy specifically in this movie is one of those people i will never not find attractive and adorable.

"Yas corporate slowburn" murdered me

Ahhhhh we LURVE an arrested development reference

praying for a mike's mic legally blonde recap - however I don't think us mere mortals could cope

Mike the references were especially amazing today, the Spanish dubbing of Kelly Osborne is next level

6:22 She’s a pathological liar yet is brutally honest sometimes.

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.

I swear to god, Mike is one of the funniest people on KZfaq. 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 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 💖

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!

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

"That's not a bang, that's a BOOM." Stop the video. I died😭

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)

why is this my comfort video, I just keep coming back for mike's commentary for this movie

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 unironically love this movie I think it’s so underrated

This movie legit got me through college (with Burlesque ofc)

There’s always money in the banana stand - I live for the Arrested Development reference.

JUSTICE for my favourite romcom. Rotten tomatoes score is absolutely CRIMINAL

I remember watching this in high school textiles class senior year and *hating* the bridesmaid dress. Those girls were set up. Also, Miss Korch is played by icon of every generation Wendie Malick who voices the reigning queen of fashion Burdine Maxwell in the Bratz animated series.

SYMETTRA?!?! Ms turret-teleporter queen HERSELF?! Iconic, Mike you truly outdid yourself.

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

YES! LITERALLY THE FILM THAT RAISED ME! (to fear credit cards and the bank)

I screamed and spat when will Graham turned up out of nowhere.

the fact that the second shopaholic's anonymous leader voices burdine in the bratz tv show is so funny to me

"and go thru all her bills, her Williams." TEARS PLS

"so she walks down the street exhibiting mental illness talking to the mannequins" 😂