Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tried Too Hard...

I am a big fan of the 'Shopaholic' books. So I was very excited to hear they were making a movie based on the book series. However, i feel that the film tried too hard to condense the highlights of the first two books into this film. I don't think enough time was spent developing the characters of Rebecca Bloomwood and Luke Brandon. The film didn't flow nicely the way the books did. I feel they would have done better if they focussed on one book and did a faithful adaptation. Since they insisted on having the movie take place in New York then they should have focussed more on the second book in the series, 'Shopaholic Takes Manhattan.'While the script wasn't great, Isla Fisher was cute and Hugh Dancy was perfectly cast as Luke Brandon. This film is a case where the talent was great, but the story was not.