I don’t know if Jerry Bruckheimer will ever win a Best Picture Oscar, but he’s one of those guys who will get a Lifetime Achievement Award at the end of his career. He’s got Emmys galore for The Amazing Race, but he makes movies that sell tickets, not ones that necessarily win awards.

He’s been responsible for so many blockbusters, from Top Gun to Con Air to Bad Boys to Pirates of the Caribbean, effects-laden movies about air force pilots and cops and pirates and other dudes who like to blow stuff up. But people often forget that he makes movies for women too. (See: Flashdance, Coyote Ugly, Confessions of a Shopaholic.) He and his former producing partner Don Simpson are responsible for movies who make people buy tickets, but what they also do is recognize really great stories and put it together with the talent that fits.

Confessions of a Shopaholic is just another example of a long line of successes where Bruckheimer has managed to put exactly the right person for a movie in the role at the exact right time. No one can deny Isla Fisher is on the rise. She’s bubbly and cute and she certainly doesn’t take herself too seriously (she is, after all, with Sasha Baron Cohen). But up until now, she’s been in supporting roles, most memorably in Wedding Crashers where she played the certifiably nuts Gloria to Vince Vaughn’s screwball Jeremy. The fact that you remember her at all is an accomplishment in itself since Vaughn chews screen wherever he goes.

I have actually read both of the books that Confessions of a Shopaholic is based on, considered ‘chick lit’ by many. Sophie Kinsella wrote them (as well as a couple others) surrounding Rebecca Bloomwood, the extremely likable heroine of the movie who just makes really bad decisions. And often. I always thought when reading the books that they would transfer well to the screen. Turns out I was right.

Isla Fisher is a perfect Rebecca, although they’ve made her American (in the books, she’s British). She’s funny and charming and yet clumsy at the same time. And while the movie can be predictable at times, it makes you laugh. More specifically, Fisher makes you laugh. It’s a fun movie. Sure, it’s a chick flick and it might make you or your wife want to go shopping in Manhattan after it’s over, but it’s also entertaining.

Entertainment is something I always look for in movies. I can deal with serious character pieces and off-kilter indie flicks and epic dramas. I don’t like horror movies and I can tolerate Woody Allen, but I almost NEVER would choose to go see one of his films. Honestly, the movies that make me keep coming back to the theater are the ones like Confessions of a Shopaholic. They are the movies that Jerry Bruckheimer makes. And I’m OK with that.