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Don't walk, RUN to see Bridget Jones's Diary!
The only reason not to go and see Bridget Jones's Diary right now is if you don't already know the ending to Fatal Attraction. Otherwise, get your rocker off the seat and run to the cinema to watch this movie! Okay, back to critiquing the movie. It blew me away from start to finish! In the first 5 minutes I was already in tears from laughing so much. That's a new World record! This movie is flippin' funny and it knows it. The characters get in impossible situations that are very funny and simply situations that are even funnier. Renee Zellweger plays Bridget brilliantly, she splendid and gained 7kg's for the movie. Well, Renee, it was worth it. This is arguably her best performance to date, a dramatic and comic one that has had so much effort put into to it literally bursts out of the screen. Hugh Grant injects the film with a shot of bad-boy personality and Colin Firth is just great. The soundtrack is also fabulous and the miraculous one-liners are so memorable you'll be quoting them to everyone in sight! Bridget Jones's Diary is fun, clever, entertaining and frankly brilliant ' see it now!

A must-see for all womankind...
In Bridget Jones's Diary, we are introduced to Bridget Jones, a thirty-something British woman desperately looking for love. Her co-worker and eventual love interest, played by Hugh Grant, is devilishly handsome and charmingly played by the suave Grant. Colin Firth, another Brit actor, adeptly plays a successful lawyer(?). Firth has a natural type of aloofness and pride that makes him suitable to play both this character and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Both Firth and Grant contend for her affections. Renee Zellweger, ever lovable and emphatic, connects with the audience; as Jones, she portrays a size-12 smoking and drinking woman. She admirably attempts to ignore her matchmaking mother, quit her smoking and drinking, lose weight, and start a meaningful relationship. She records her social ups and downs and personal gains and losses in a diary which proves to play a key role in the movie.
The movie is filled with twists and turns and a few hilarious scenes punctuated by those more moody and dramatic. It is a light, romantic comedy which I highly recommend, especially to those of the female population. I really sympathized with Bridget and her earnest attempts to be a more contented, healty women. She showed real weakness in her diet relapses and emotional strife in the relationship with Grant. The almost cynical comedy was highly entertaining as was the fabulous performances given by the actors and actresses. The book would probably be better than the movie, but I have yet to read it. This movie is almost as good as chocolate, and that's saying something.

Becoming one of my favorite romantic comedies
I missed seeing this movie in the theaters. I was always choosing something else to see even though I really like Renee Zellweger since she co-starred with Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. I finally rented it last week. I haven't laugh so much in a long time. Renee Zellweger was so adorable and charming despite the extra pounds she put on in this role. I realize now why she received an Oscar nomination. Her performance is flawless and you find yourself rooting for her throughout the movie. Bridget Jones is a slightly overweight thirty- something women who drinks too much, smokes too much and makes the dreadful mistake of "shagging" her slimy boss, Daniel Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant. Before entering into this liason with Mr. Cleaver, she is summarily dissed by a would-be suitor, a seemingly uptight and droll attorney, Mark Darcy, a victim of an ill-fated matchmaking attempt by Bridget's mom. Throughout the movie, Mr. Darcy and Ms Jones end up running into each other exchanging snide remarks and cool glances, until we realize that despite appearances, Mr. Darcy fancies Ms. Jones "just as she is". Colin Firth is oh-so-sexy as the proper Mr. Darcy who in the end turns out to be a very sweet man after all. I was beginning to think that Colin Firth was going to yet again be typecast as the jilted husband/lover or cold fish of a cad. It was nice to see him get the girl for a change. The movie is really entertaining, however they could have left out the numerous utterances of the "F" word. Other than that, I would highly recommend this movie for the romantics at heart.

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