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Summary: Zellweger's best performance to date!
Review: I first read the book when I was over in Dublin last year and couldn't wait to see the movie. Often, I find that I am disappointed by movie version - but not in this case! Zellweger was the perfect Bridget Jones. In my opinion, this is her best performance to date! This is a must own DVD!
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Summary: Beware if you've read the books!!!
Review: I was very excited to see the movie after reading both Bridget Jones books. When I saw the video, though, I was disappointed. I understand that it's a movie and that they couldn't keep all of the good stuff, but there was almost none of the good stuff. Sure some of the scenes they kept in there (like the "Tarts" party) were well done, but there were some even funnier scenes in the book! I think her friends were only in one or two scenes, and the same with her parents. I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I'm glad I saw the movie for free and didn't go buy it first, like i had originally planned on doing. Don't get me wrong. I think the actors and crew did a wonderful job with what they were given, I just think that there could have been more done with the script. So, I guess what I'd like you to know is that you should rent the movie first before buying it.
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Summary: Awful Adaptation
Review: I cannot believe Helen Fielding wrote this screenplay!!!! Did she intentionally ruin her own book? Unbelievable (and that fake accent is horrendous!). I saw this in the theatres and was tremendously disappointed; I rented it thinking maybe I had been too harsh in my original assessment; however, I disliked it even more after a second viewing. The book's plot is completely ruined here and, while the book is a little shallow, it was a fluffy, enjoyable read. Not so this movie. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth should be ashamed of themselves for being in this piece of trash (and if I'm not mistaken, wasn't Hugh Grant made fun of in the book?). I can't believe how many people praise this flick. It's quite possibly the worst adaptation of a book to screen I have ever seen. A complete waste of time. Let's hope there's no sequel.
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Summary: Be prepared to laugh out loud; this is a silly, funny movie.
Review: Unlike other reviewers, I do not believe that Bridget Jones is a role model for women. She is just too human. And that is what makes this movie so wonderful. Although she is an incredibly poor public speaker, Bridget is given opportunity after opportunity to prove the point. After making an idiot of herself, at a literary party attended by the real Salman Rushdie, and Jeffry Archer, she sleeps with the boss, is royally screwed and then moves on to television. She lands an on air job with “Sit Up Britain†because “no one at Sit Up Britain ever gets fired for shagging the boss.†There she slides down on a fireman’s pole, exposes her barely clad derriere to the nation, and is rewarded with a plum current events assignment on human rights. Bridget’s love life is dismal. Her mother tries to set her up with a dull lawyer Mark Darcy played with understatement by Colin Firth. (They had to dress him in a ridiculous reindeer turtleneck sweater. Otherwise the movie would end just five minutes after they meet. Although gorgeous, he is just impossible to take seriously in that sweater.) Of course, Bridget has a torrid affair with her boss, played marvelously by Hugh Grant. He is quite the cad and ends the affair almost immediately after Bridget uses the word L word (love) in a bedroom scene. Meanwhile, the two male leads have there own history that plays out. Bridget’s single life is attacked by friends and family. When she goes to a dinner party by herself, she is told that her biological clock is ticking “tick tock, tick tockâ€, asked to why there are so many single women over age 30. Apparently, it is open season on single women. Romantic comedy has changed a bit since Tracey and Grant, but it is still enjoyable. The casting here is perfect, as is the music. Sharon Mcquire’s direction is superb. Timing is everything, and Renee Zellweger has impeccable comedic timing. She also has a wonderful believable British accent. She proves in this role that she can carry a whole movie. Although I highly recommend this dvd, I would give a word of caution. Women will laugh first. Some of the funniest moments may be gender specific. It is possible that you will have to explain why that is so funny to your date. If you can overcome that small problem, just sit back and enjoy.
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Summary: A real-life comedy of romantic errors
Review: This movie will appeal to all - even the men will enjoy it if they give it a chance. The heroine (played beautifully by American Renee Zellweger) has more bad vices, cellulite, bad language, and ineptitude than honorable virtues and noble qualities. Bridget is a character most women can identify with, right down the the outrageous and loud but supportive group of friends. Hugh Grant's character is so different from the charmingly lovable, tongue-tied misfit he often plays, and he pulls it off perfectly. Daniel Cleaver is a cocksure, selfish womanizer who plays the charmer in order to get his hands on Bridget and her short skirts. Colin Firth is delightfully in character as Mark Darcy - a barrister that comes off as being haughty and rude, but turns out to be down-to-earth, loving, and so sweet. And Bridget, like most of us women, has a hard time seeing the real prize. One of the best things about this film is the fact that it completely changes the audience's mind. You begin by hating Darcy and loving Cleaver... by the end you are completely in love with Darcy and are cheering when he beats the stuffing out of Cleaver. A delightful, funny, and very romantic film for women and men alike.
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Summary: Very funny!
Review: This is one of the few films I have seen that I actually thought to be more entertaining than the book! It is very very funny. I was pleasantly surprised to see Renee Zellweger give such a convincing performance as a 30 something British gal. Her accent was flawless (I should know, I'm English). How refreshing to see Hugh Grant play the baddy for a change, a roll he performs extremely well, he makes a great irresistable scoundrel. Colin Firth is excellent (and those deep pools of rich chocolate eyes just make me melt!). He is the perfect dashing English gentleman and is much more likeable in this role than he was in the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (on which Helen Fielding based her story, as she states in an interview on the Bridget Jones DVD). Overall, a great story line, plenty of hilarious mishaps for Bridget, (you'll find yourself feeling embarassed for her) and a lovely fairy tale ending.
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Summary: piece of fluff
Review: I have read the book "Bridget Jones Diary" probably about ten times since the summer and loved it everytime. After watching the film I see they've killed the book. Despite having an excellent cast they have made the characters completely 2-dimensional. The script writers seem to have edited every bit of humour out of the book and have turned it into a cheesy romantic 'comedy' for the late twenties age group. My only advice for anyone who is interested in seeing this film is buy the book.
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Summary: A delightful comedy
Review: Renee Zellweger hits all the right notes as 30-ish Bridget Jones,
an English spinster whose family and friends are constantly deriding her for her single status. She is madly in love with her boss, played by Hugh Grant, who is a selfish, self-centered womanizer. She flirts with him in an outrageous manner until, wonder of wonders, he does make a pass at her. Bridget is hilarious as an awkward, tongue-tied, falling-down, sort of girl and Grant plays off her character well. Her mother tries to fix her up with a stuffy lawyer, but Bridget is having none of that.
This is a delightful, laugh-out-loud comedy which never loses its human touch.
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Summary: The Life of a Singelton Brings it to the Movie's!
Review: I absolutely love this movie. I love Renee Z. performance as Bridget Jones, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and the extremely handsom Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.
We experience the life as a single woman with Bridget Jones, an English woman facing her career, parents, friends, life, and her love life. It's a romantic and hilarious comedy is an instant favorite. I know even guys who love Bridget Jones. I think almost every woman can relate to her and we get to see the real Bridget through her thoughts and her life.
This cast has extreme chemistry with each other which is always awesome to see.
The DVD itself is truly cool. It's got behind the scene's look with Bridget Jones Diary, cut out scene's, and excerpts from the "diary" that Helen Feilding the author originally wrote for a newspaper from the life of Bridget Jones.
I would give this movie an A+ and the DVD itself an A+ It's got everything both a man and a woman will love to sit and watch together with.
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Summary: v. good movie from an OK book
Review: I saw a sneak preview of this and I loved it! I will admit I did not like the book, but the previews looked so good --- and I was not disappointed! The writers did a great job formulating a compelling plot from the book, you will not take your eyes off the screen the whole time you are in the theater! The best part of the flick is Renee Zellweger herself --- she is excellent as the title character, expressing that bumbling side that does embarrassing things in public that every one of us has and is afraid will show itself --- right in front of the guy we really want. You have to feel for her when the embarrassing situation is not her fault --- someone gives her wrong information and she ends up looking silly, but she takes it all in stride. And what girl hasn't vowed to take up a campaign of self-improvement because we hope our dream guy will sit up and take notice of our new and improved self? The best thing is watching Bridget discover, over the course of a year, that her true self might be just fine after all.
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