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The Life of a Singelton Brings it to the Movie's!
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.
A wonderful pleasant surprise!
Bridget Jones is what every woman was at some point in her life: unsatisfied with her love life, frustrated with men, a drinker/smoker, and the "butt" of jokes with friends and associates (watch the firehouse scene and you'll understand the "butt" reference). This film is a funny, warm, and realistic take on singledom.
Renee Zellweger not only pulled off a near-flawless British accent to where I almost forgot she was from Texas, but she brought a lot of charm and wit to Bridget. She wasn't perfect and she often embarassed herself. I think movies too often try to portray these perfect women and the guys as the idiots who humiliate themselves to get near them. But women do silly things to sometimes. And these things can be just as funny as Freddie Prinze, Jr. falling down or something.
The men are good in this movie too. Colin Firth is the smug British male, unwilling to admit his feelings, insecure. You spend half the movie trying to figure out whether to love or hate him, but the end fills in the gaps for you. Hugh Grant, always great, is cocky and slimy. But how many mistakes have women dated? All of us girls have seen this character in our dating life.
My only criticism: Bridget is not fat, at least Renee wasn't fat in the film. I get tired of the Hollywood standards of what is beautiful and skinny. Renee looked like a normal healthy woman to me, a kind of girl who has become unappreciated in this society as of late. Guys, please, reconsider your obsession with plastic and opt for the natural woman. She won't let you down, I promise.
mildly amusing
This movie definitely has its moments. As a Washington Post critic so brilliantly put it:" any movie where Hugh Grant gets punched in the face is definitely worth seeing". That's a guy opinion, of course. As for us girls: HG is even more attractive as the scoundrel in this movie than he is in his usual mister-nice-guy role. The nice-guy slot in this movie is filled by Colin Firth, who does a stellar job as the dorky, stiff upper-lip, akward, but good-looking and as we find out weird but good-hearted "top barrister". He grows on Bridget and us in the audience like a very slowly rising yeast dough. As for Bridget: Rene Zellweger does a surprisingly wonderful job as the porky, chain-smoking, self-pitying british middle-class single girl who says the wrong things in the wrong places. The real weakness of this movie is that plot and general concept seem to borrow heavily from the previous successes of this very successful British film team: Notting Hill and 4 Weddings. There is the slightly to very off-beat cast of characters, there is the odd couple getting together under the worst of circumstances as far as British social protocol is concerned, and there is the madatory happy end. In Bridget's case another weakness is that none of the characters really pulls you in and there is that spark that puts it all together. It is a movie of good moments, some great laughs and very solid acting, but an overall mediocricy that pulls it down to 3 star or matinee ticket level.
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