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Summary: You MUST See 'Pride and Prejudice' With Colin Firth
Review: I have never read any of Helen Fielding's novels. However, I fell completely in love with Bridget and Mark Darcy. After seeing Helen's comments about stealing Mark Darcy directly from Jane Austen. I watched 'Bridget' a good four times before I purchased it. I purchased 'Pride and Prejudice' before I was an hour into the viewing. It is a long and a wonderful treat. Watch it a bit at a time for a week of viewing bliss. Then, watch it again over the weekend. You will not regret it. I can't say enough about the wonderful performances and great interpretation of the classic. You will fall in love with Colin Firth all over again.
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Summary: Don't try to compare this to a great literary work
Review: Too many try to compare this to the book it's based on, or other literary greats. Accept it for what it is, a cute, happy ending type movie. Actors and actresses are all well cast, and roles are played out well. I'd say it fits the mold of "When Harry Meets Sally", if you enjoyed that, you'll like this. I liked both.
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Summary: Not an update of Pride & Prejudice but funny & entertaining
Review: Though inspired by the A&E TV mini-series "Pride & Prejudice" with Colin Firth playing a more modern Mr. Darcy in a clever bit of casting, and Hugh Grant's character inspired by Jane Austen's Mr. Wickam, there the resemblance ends. The foul mouthed, drinking and smoking Bridget, who usually can't organize her thoughts to speak coherently when called upon to do so, although she improves as the film progresses, is the direct opposite of the very eloquent Elizabeth Bennett -- also, Bridget has no sisters and has a philandering mom, who runs off with a game show host. This said, the film is very entertaining and Bridget is quite appealing, but there is far too little of the talented Colin Firth until the last third of the film. Hugh Grant is good in his role as Bridget's womanizing boss who had a falling out with Darcy. Since in the DVD making of the film featurette there is much made of the fact the book and film were inspired by the A&E/BBC production of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth as the sexy Mr. Darcy and Mark Darcy is based on Firth's portrayal and deliberately written as his modern counterpart, I couldn't watch the film without making comparisons. And that was a mistake to do because there really is little to compare except Mark Darcy is, initially, as aloof and inscrutable as Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, if not as arrogant, and Colin Firth was deliberately cast to reprise and update his role. But it is hard to see what Mark Darcy sees in Bridget, and what attracts him to her as we never see his point of view. And unlike Elizabeth Bennet, Bridget doesn't engage him in clever verbal repartee (she's eloquent primarily in her first person narrative and diary entries), so we don't see why he falls in love with her. Firth does provide us with some more those smoldering Darcy gazes, a wonderful smile and great one-liner in the blue soup sequence and, I hope without giving too much away, a terrific kissing sequence sadly missing from Pride & Prejudice. If only we had seen P&P's Mr. Darcy kiss Elizabeth the same way Mark Darcy kisses Bridget. Whoa!! Overall an enjoyable and entertaining film with perfect casting.
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Summary: To long and a waste of Renee Zellweger's talent !!!!
Review: At first the movie is cute but the 30's mid life crisis begins to wear on the viewer all so quickly. Summary: English 30 something year old (Zellweger) woman is having a never ending life crisis for getting married ! Endless senseless scenarios take us to a long overdue happy ending with the most unsuspected guy (NOT). Okay for Zellweger fans but not one of her best.
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Summary: Book is better
Review: But then again I almost always think the book is better than the film. I miss the diary format of the book, especially the report on cigarettes and her weigh-in. Daniel's role seems to expand in the video, I'm sure in part to justify hiring Hugh Grant. If you like the video, which any fan of the romantic comedy genre most likely will, read the book.
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Summary: Great romantic comedy - that's actually funny!
Review: The third in the line of successful British romantic comedies penned by Richard Curtis, 'Bridget Jones' is thankfully a lot better than 'Notting Hill' whilst never quite achieving the highs of 'Four Weddings And A Funeral'. With the books being such a success, it was only a matter of time before Bridget Jones hit the big screen. She does it in style too, this being one of the best British movies of its type for a long while. It tells the tale of Bridget, a thirty-something single woman looking for love - will it be the standoffish Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) or her suave boss Daniel Cleaver? If this sounds either overly familiar or formulaic then you'd be wrong. This is injected with enough wit, humour and fantastic performances to easily entertain for its running length. Renée Zellweger is effortlessly endearing in her role as Bridget, a role for which she actually gained weight for - unheard of usually. The fact that she is such a likeable character is that Zellweger plays her with such naivety that it's hard not to sympathise with her struggles to lose weight, find a man, and get a good job. You get the feeling that this is a real woman, not some Hollywood fantasy. Bridget isn't perfect and therein lays her appeal. Hugh Grant as one of her love interests is great in a role that's thankfully a good deal different from the stuttering shy Englishman that he's so used to playing. The serious Colin Firth is also good in a role that is basically a reprisal of his Mr. Darcy in TV's 'Pride And Prejudice'. It's a credit to the film that their rivalry is played out realistically without resorting to taking sides. The supporting cast, of course, consists of various stalwarts from television, including Celia Imrie and Sally Phillips (from the award-winning comedy 'Smack The Pony'). There's little to dislike here, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and an ending that is sweet rather than sickly. There's even attempts to bring some humanity into it all with the breakdown of Bridget's parents' marriage. Not only is this handled sensitively, but there's also a good deal of humour packed in there too. There's no mistaking it: Bridget Jones is a winner.
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Summary: Not the book but entertaining
Review: Unless the filmmakers wanted to make a 6-hour mini-series comparable to A&E's version of Pride and Prejudice, there was probably no way they could reproduce Bridget Jones' Diary as it stands on the page. The film cuts out a lot, including the parallels to P & P. It loses the daily up and down entries referencing the battles with weight, cigarettes and attempts at healthier living, the occasional (and hilarious)drunken postscripts, and some great lines and subplots. On the other hand, I watched it with someone who had not read the book and he quite enjoyed the film and "got" Bridget and the other characters. The trio at the center of the story were well served by Zellweger, Firth and Grant.
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Summary: A movie I could watch over and over again....
Review: I thought this movie was a charming display of love and comedy. I thought the cast was great. Renee Zellweger and the adorable Colin Firth go great together. The movie has a very sweet ending and if you want a fantastic movie, I recommend Briget Jones's Diary.
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Summary: Bridget Jones' Diary
Review: Everyone knows diaries are just ..., but this is GREAT! My all time favorite movie. I have watched the final scene so many times, it just makes you happy, you leave with a smile. EXCELLENT!
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Summary: Something about the title....
Review: I purchased this DVD (and the book) for two reasons: 1. The story is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice (my favorite novel of all time), and 2. I share the first name of the heroine (though a different spelling). It was very refreshing to see Hugh Grant as the reprobate instead of the affable good guy he usually portrays, and Colin Firth wearing that "lovely" reindeer sweater was practically worth the price of the movie alone. It was a lot of fun also to see a number of British actors and actresses that I had only seen before in period pieces in "civilian clothes". I wasn't particularly impressed with Renee Zellweger, though I'm not certain if it was her or the script for the part she was playing. I did think that the script went a little overboard with the "goofiness" of the Bridget character. At first her mistakes were amusing.... after a while it became boring and annoying. Everyone has had moments where they want to crawl into a hole and die of embarassment, but the film portrays this character's every action as one mistake after another and after a while it simply ceases to be funny. The audience can sympathize with a character that has "bad hair days", but after a while, just plain stupid isn't funny. The viewer is left wondering what either male lead could possibly find interesting or attractive about Bridget Jones. I'm not sorry I bought the film - it just wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be.
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