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Summary: GREAT, FEEL GOOD MOVIE!!!
Review: Didn't get to see this movie at the theatre, so I rented it and actually watched it four times in less than a week (I've never done this in my life!) Renee Zellweger is great as Bridget, and I fell in love with Colin Firth (he's fabulous). Cannot wait to see his other movies and anxiously await the sequel (Only hope that they can get the same actors!)
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Summary: Review by a Hugh Grant Lookalike (Only more handsome)
Review: I saw this movie because I had a date and I have a passing resemblence to Hugh Grant. I thought it wouldn't do my chances with the girl any harm to be associated in her mind with a 'cute' Hollywood film star. My sexual predatoriness, of course, goes against the whole ethos of the movie, which is all about a plump English girl trying to find 'trooooo love.'(...)Watching this film made me very aware that men and women have radically different itineries. Women nowadays like to think they can enjoy a bit of a fling and 'play the field' in the same way that men have traditionally done, but, just like Bridget Jones in this movie, their hearts are not really in it. The pleasure of the moment is never just the pleasure of the moment, but is forced to have greater significance. What they want, therefore, is 'sexual excitement' LEADING TO a 'meaningful relationship.' This is what Bridget so clearly wants, and is of course the reason why she, along with so many of her sex, is obsessed by her weight. This is also the reason Hugh Grant's plasure-loving cad is cast as the bad guy. As a man who also relishes a bit of pleasure and doesn't relish the prospect of being woven into one woman's cosy little domestic fantasy, I can't but find this movie offensive in the same way that an African American would find a racially inensitive movie offensive. Men are not mere adjuncts to feminine fantasy. We do not exist only to make their cosy little world safe and complete. We have our own needs, desires, and sensibilities, many of which this movie clearly offends.
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Summary: Horrid. Just Plain Horrid.
Review: Perhaps I am missing something, as I seem to be in the very slight minority in hating this trash. I realize that the target audience is twenty to thirty something females, and being male, am decidely not in said demographic. However, my girlfiend is smack dab in the center of it, and she to thought this movie was purile sop.
First off, the script based on Helen Fieldings novel of the same name, is just another exuse to let famous actors, who usually play wholesome, good natured protagonists, act vile and promiscuous. Renee Zellweger, who has been lauded in the press for gaining twenty pounds to play Bridget, looks a lot more normal than she does at her normal malnourished weight. In, fact it surprised me that this movie was not panned by critics for portraying a woman who is slightly more rounded than is the hollywood norm, as overweight.
Hugh Grant plays a corporate cad who seduces Ms.Jones, then ruins her illusion of love with a super model esque american. Colin Firth has all the acting range of a corpse with severe rigor mortis, but with a tad less charm. This faux love triangle
is played out at a tepid pace, only to conclude with an ending that is so far-fetched, so inane, that it mad me want to scream.
The whiny, complaining, life-is-so-hard tone of the film wore thin after 10 minutes. It also proceeds to reaffirm the stereotype that a woman can not be happy nor complete, with out a man, a marriage and a few kids. One of the worst films I have watched this year.
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Summary: Entertaining, good actors, but does no justice to the book
Review: The film flows very well (you do not get bored for a second), script is smooth and tight and maintains nice rhytm. All the leading cast is exquisite (and Hugh Grant looks so much better in the role of a heartless two-timing bastard than in his usual application of an oh-so-cute puppy-eyed stammering British nancy-boy), the British home counties accent of the Texan Renee is accomplished and good jokes abound. However, the book on which it is based is so much more complex and intriguing. It is not the fault of this movie: only so much plot can be crammed into a limited time, and I should have known better than watch a film based on a book when I know already what's in the book. It will make a very pleasant evening watch, maybe one day you will rent it again, but I would think twice before adding it to my DVD collection.
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Summary: What Adult Comedies Are Made Of!
Review: This movie is hilarious! I was expecting a chic-flick that I wouldn't enjoy. What I got was a terrific comedy every adult should watch with friends. Bridget is in her 30's, overweight, an alcoholic, chain smoker, and... Single! When she finally catches the affection of her boss, everything that could go wrong does! It's a great story of a woman on a quest to succede in life and snag the man of her dreams, while recording it all in her diary. You won't go for more than 5 minuites without lauging out loud! No comedy collection would be complete without "Bridget Jone's Diary"!
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Summary: Bridget Jones Lite
Review: I pre-ordered 2 copies of this DVD for me and my best friend. We had seen this movie together the first weekend it came out, even though I had recently broken my leg. It was one of those heightened moments in time, when two friends experience the magic of a good movie and come out feeling the same way about it. I had read both Bridget books and fell in love with the sentimentally cynical heroine, her 'Urban Family' and her diametrically opposed suitors. The sheer joy I felt as Bridget slowly bungled her way towards true love was almost as severely felt as when I first read Pride and Prejudice. So, even as I sat in wonder at Renee's swell English accent and Colin's perfect English bum, I couldn't help but think that the movie lacked much of the book's ironic nuance and humor. Well, I ended up separating the book from the movie in my mind, and it worked, because I have a huge soft spot in my heart for this film. As for the DVD version, I am a tad disappointed. The widescreen letterbox makes the characters seem too distant. Bridget's emotional world is so vulnerably in-your-face that to watch it from a distance waters it down. And my disc was slightly out of focus, making me rub my eyes to see if I could see it any better. But forget about all that! This DVD is definitely worth owning, from the hilariously raw and ravaged opening credits to the good-boy-who-kisses-baaad ending. Enjoy!
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Summary: this is one of the best flicks out there
Review: First off all you guys out there don't be put off by the title and the artwork on the box this isn't really a chick flick, I usaully hate all those type of movies howards end, Pride and prejudice, remains of the day etc. This is one of the very best of the genere ranking up there with sleepless in seatle, noting hill and the wonderful Shakespeare in Love. It's very sweet and very funny i think anybody out there will find something they think is funny, but what makes this movie great is the heart, You will fall in love with Renee Zwellger's Bridget Because She is such a likeable charcter and Hugh Grant whos been the good guy too much Noting Hill, Four Weddings and a funerel etc, finally plays a bad guy. I was very impressed with the movie when i saw it last April and have waited for the dvd for months. The actally dvd is a little dispointing because of the bonus features you get wo music videos Gabarille Out Of Reach and Shelby Lynn Killin Kind, a nine minute featurette and some v.g as bridget would say deleted scenes that really added to the movie, The commentery was not very good because the director Sharon Maguire would say uh every othe word so I could not get too intreated in it.Another odd thing is there is no Trailer and tv spots that would have been nice.Please Critrion put out a version of this and include a cast and crew commentery that would wonderful, Better yet include a commentery by Helen Feilding the author of the books.I have already watched this movie twice since I got it two days ago, and I plan on watching it again toninght with my mom. Please order this movie, Don't mess with renting it it will be a waste of money because you will won't to own it.One other side note the seqaul is in preproduction, But word is Zwellegr will not be back, That will ruin the whole movie as she the only woman I know who can play the role and give it justice.
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Summary: performance
Review: Hugh Grand looks like a much better kisser than Colin Firth, though I am a fan of the latter...
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Summary: read the books
Review: I might have had too high expectation after reading the two books and the reviews on the movie, before I saw it. Completely on the other side of one of the other reviewers, I loved Bridget Jones in the books: I knew more of what she was thinking, than what she might appear before crowds of people. It didn't matter if she was smart or beautiful, she was funny, sometimes even absurd, she drank alot, smoke a lot, very obbessed witht her weight, didn't have many interests. not quite diciplined. But whatever she truly was, I loved her (biblically, since I am a woman).
I had been waiting impatiently for the movie to come along on videos ( I had missed te theatre season). I can't say I was disappointed, but it was certainly not as satisfying as I thought. Bridget appeared fatter than I thought- she was around 130 in the books but about 140 in the movie. She seemed rather slow reacting to insults (from the smug married). She was an awful cook, not capable of cooking even for only 4 people!(in the book there were at least 12 people at the dinner).
I love Bridget Jones, but I am confused: what do I love her for?
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Summary: I love this movie!
Review: I fell in love with the plot of this movie! It has a normal, quirky, clumsy girl get the gorgeous guy regardless of all her silly downfalls. I saw it 8 times in the theater, and purchasing the film has been high on my list of things to do. Great film, the cast is wonderful. Love Colin Firth; he's gorgeous, and Zelleweger is perfect, with all those facial expressions. Yay!
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