Through a drunken miscommunication and some crafty writing, she actually lands the job and ends up working for stuffy but adorable Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). She is tasked with writing a column on saving and her clever turn of a phrase and girly girl fashion metaphors make her an instant success. However, since she wants a job at Alette and doesn't want to be associated with Successful Saving, she uses the moniker "The Girl with the Green Scarf," since her green scarf played a role in her getting the job.
Her new column soon becomes wildly popular and before she knows it, she is juggling her new job, her shopping antics, her best friend Suze's (Krysten Ritter) impending wedding, plus a budding romance with Luke. Leave it to a schemer from Alette to throw a kink in the works. It seems one of Alette's columnists, Alicia (Leslie Bibb), has her eyes and mitts on Luke and a position at Successful Saving, even while Rebecca longs for a job at Alette. The grass is always greener... It all builds to a crescendo when Rebecca's money problems eventually catch up as a tenacious collector named Derek Smeath (Robert Stanton) tracks her down on a TV morning show where she is a guest. Can she keep it all together, not look like a fool and get the handsome guy in the end?
This movie is just precious. It's a feel-good, girly flick with lots of physical comedy courtesy of the absolutely hysterical Isla Fisher. She and Hugh Dancy have wonderful chemistry and really work well as a romantic pair. Krysten Ritter as Rebecca's pal Suze is a little over the top, but she gives just the right amount of oomph to the movie and John Goodman and Joan Cusack as Rebecca's penny-pinching parents are priceless. Finally, Kristen Scott Thomas has just the right icy appeal as the stone cold fashion goddess Alette.
There are a number of special features that are exclusive to the Blu-ray and they are mainly featurettes, but really good ones. They are short and sweet, but well worth watching and cover such topics as the very zany Patricia Field (the stylist behind the film), the scarf itself and how it was selected, New York Fashion in general and one on the CG and mo-cap involved to make the mannequins come to life. They also throw in a couple of music videos from the infectious soundtrack, plus a handful of bloopers and deleted scenes.
Overall, this is just a fun movie. While it may not be one you'd watch over and over, I must admit that I watched it once to review it and then couldn't help sitting down again to watch more when J.R. Nip was watching his version on DVD for review. It's just that cute. Highly recommended.
