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Summary: To Bridget: who we love just as she is
Review: This is a bit of a fluff piece although it has its virtues. Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones is very charming and likeable. Alas, the characters are almost all caricatures albiet well done. The guy who hawks jewelry on TV was perfect. But caricatures only go so far. And competent Mark Darcy's attraction for incompetent Bridget Jones is a stretch. Nevertheless, it doesn't matter much because you're happy for her. The music was well done, and in the right moments.
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Summary: TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT IS
Review: I don't understand when people pick at these movies.PEOPLE,PEOPLE, this is not meant to be a documentary on pearl harbor, it is meant to be what it is, a romantic comedy.And what problems do you find here??The movie is intelligent,it is witty,has superb performances(by Renee, and Colin, Hugh, I can take or leave him, he does nothing for me), and is also touching.I absolutely loved this film and feel that nothing works better on rainy days.One complaint:when will romantic comedies stop having the same cookie-cutter soundtracks???
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious!
Review: Before this film I was a fan of neither Grant nor Zellweger. They are brilliant in this sarcasm-rich comedy about a young woman's battle with low self-esteem and quest for a husband. It is essentially a romantic comedy, but perhaps even the hard-shelled husband (that refuses to watch his wife's chick flicks) will find this one amusing.
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Summary: pride and prejudice for real girls
Review: i recently saw the a&e adaptation of pride and prejudice and loved it. it made me realize how rare girls like liz bennett are, who are beautiful, smart, and virtuous. now we have p&p for real women. bridget jones is no liz bennett. she's not too smart, not too pretty, and virtuous??? well, whatever she's not, she is your typical woman of the 21st century. and what she lacks in bbv, she makes up for with a kind of open-hearted, scatterbrained charm. the story bears some resemblance to p&p, particularly the mark darcy character who is played by the same fellow who played fiztwilliam darcy, i mean colin firth, who by the way is still wearing the same long sideburns. it's lighthearted, improbable, sometimes sputters a bit, and is no p&p. but it's a good movie for a rental when you're tired of watching p&p for the 99th time.
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Summary: Surprisingly funny
Review: Renee Zellweger must have gained 30 pounds for this movie. She plays a normal, single, hard-working girl just trying to have fun and find a nice guy. Aren't we all?!? Her narration is wonderful, funny and the flirty scenes are hilarious.
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Summary: Wild joy!
Review: Hugh Grant is perrrrfectly cast! Sly, charming, and full of ego. Another EXCELLENT British comedy that's both hillarious and uplifting. Leaving the theatre after BJD left me with that great post-movie feeling of joy, the same feeling I had when I left "Bend It Like Beckham," "Ameli" and "Men With Brooms". Zellweger does a convincing job of capturing the loveable quirks of title character Bridget. Certainly a movie I could watch over, and over, and over agian! Witty, charming and hillarious!
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Summary: Better than the book!
Review: I saw this movie without reading the book first. Prior to seeing the movie, I was not thrilled about skinny, squinchy-faced, Renee Zellweger in the title role. Sure, she gained weight and had a dialect coach, but I wondered why they didn't cast Kate Winslet and save themselves the trouble. Then I saw the movie and was very pleased with Renee Zellweger. Renee portrays Bridget Jones with a certain chaotic, goofy, babbling, bad hairdo, kind of charm. And while I'm sure Kate Winslet could have done a marvelous job as well, she is just too darn pretty to play the plain, lovelorn, singleton, Bridget Jones. I was not surprised to see Hugh Grant portray a womanizing cad so well since he probably didn't have to act at all. What DID surprise me was Colin Firth in his sexiest role ever! He was fantastic! First he's rude, cold, condescending and distant, and suddenly.........he's adorable, sweet, hot, and sexy! He completely steals the show away from Hugh (Who?) Grant. So after I finally got around to reading the book, I was surprised again to discover that it was better than the book! Bridget and her love interests light up the screen in film and fizzle in the book. The plot flows better too. I can recommend the book to those who are really curious, but it will leave you looking forward to watching the DVD.
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Summary: Did the book no justice
Review: This movie is based on the book in only the loosest of terms. Sure there were occasional lines i recognized from the book and some parts matched up with the events in Bridget's life, but the whole script of the movie was so meddled with, it failed to convey the diary successfully. Needless to say, in the conversion process from book to screen, lots of events were left out and the events that WERE included were distorted. The acting was mediocre by both Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant and the supporting actors and actresses. The only saving grace was Colin Firth's acting, but even then, his character's nature was tampered with by the directors till he was totally unlike Mark Darcy in the book.
I say skip the movie.
Read the book and use your imagination. You'll be far better off with what you can come up with.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies
Review: Age: 32. Status: Single or more like "Spinster". That's Bridget Jones, an english woman who's seeking romance and true love, and marriage before time runs up and become like Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction".
Although not very thin, Bridget (Renée Zellweger) has a certain charm but finding a perfect partner for life seems very difficult. After a failed relationship with her boss Daniel (Hugh Grant), she settles for the perfect english groom who "Likes her just as she is". Comic, funny and humurous situations take place in this terrific movie, based on an actual Diary, which brings to the screen a very real condition that women are faced-up to! I enjoyed watching it and hope you will in case you buy it. The DVD Features are not bad at all: They give a 9-minute behind the scenes featurette and more than 8 deleted scenes and 2 Music Videos.
The soundtrack is great by the way, and you should get it as soon as you watch the film.
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Summary: More Bridget
Review: Very funny, witty and realistic movie. Can watch over and over again. Bridget isn't one of those twig supermodels who you hate, she's got all of the flaws that we all know we have and we love her "just the way she is." A sequel is definitley something I would love to see. Taken from the book, this movie is a great love story and a tale of a woman who doesn't have it all, but falls in love just the same. The next book, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," would be just as funny on film.
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