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Release Date: 09 October, 2001 Retail Price: $19.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Bridget Jones's Diary Reviews
An Outstanding, Romantic Comedy
The plot is not the important thing in this film. We have girl (and what a girl) meets stodgy boy and dislikes him. Girl falls for her woman-chasing boss and gets burned, and girl finally realizes that the serious fellow is the one for her. But the fun in this film is in the telling of the story and the road it takes to reach girl gets right boy. The acting is tremendous. A slightly-plump Renee Zellweger is incredible as the British heroine who can mess up everything in sight as she tries to find herself and Mister Right. Colin Firth plays an admirable crisp and correct Mark Darcy (the right man), and Hugh Grant is pleasingly slimy as Bridget's boss. The dialog is funny, and the action is hilarious. The story proceeds at breakneck speed to its happy ending. This is a terrific comedy and is well worth watching. In fact, you will probably enjoy it more than once.
Beware the screenwriters Lestat!
There really ought to be a law against screenwriters who suck the life out of literary characters. If there were, the culprits behind the screenplay for "Bridget Jones's Diary" would be languishing in the deepest, foulest crud-filled dungeon holes imaginable. Helen Fielding, one of the three screenwriters, must have been held captive and tortured. Only that would explain her participation in this literary travesty.
To have transformed Bridgett's mother -- narcissistic, flighty and imperturbable - into a weepy, sad little housewife is incomprehensible, never mind unforgivable. To give Daniel Cleaver - unrepentant rogue and scoundrel - any hint of sympathy is idiotic and wrong. To add a fight scene - complete with a plunge through a plate glass window! - is positively imbecilic. This is London, sod it, not the bloody Wild West!
And poor Bridget, denuded of her obsessive charm, her wry perceptiveness and her fascination with pop culture...shocking!
The result is a bleached out, watered down and thoroughly stomach-churning translation of a cast of funny, silly and thoroughly contemporary characters into the blandest and most tepid of leftover puddings.
There's only one remedy: READ THE BOOK!
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