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Summary: Hilarous
Review: This movie was a riot! I loved it soooooo much! I've read the first book and loved it to! I'm reading the v.g. sequal!
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Summary: Marvelous, funny and with some new extras
Review: "Bridget Jones' Diary" packs enough fun, twists and turns to make two entertaining movies. Renee Zellweger turns in a memorable performance as Bridget an unmarried career woman still looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places. Suddenly, she has two possible suitors. Her cad of a boss (Hugh Grant) who's probably all wrong for her but feels so right and a human rights lawyer (Colin Firth)who feels all wrong but is probably right for her. Her misadventures with both men will immediately win you over.
Now that we've got the plot and review out of the way I'm going to focus on what's different between this edition and the previous one. The first DVD released in 2001 and this one released to coincide with the sequel "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" look exactly the same. There's nothing to distinguish one disc vs. another. Also, many of the special features are the same as well and, contrary to the amazon.com summary, many of these were on the original release as well.
The new edition features a handful of new featurettes. Jenny Bicks a writer/producer on "Sex and the City", the editor of Allure Magazine and others comment on the difficulties in our narcissistic society. Her comments on finding Mr. Right in a world of Mr. Wrongs are frequently on target and quite funny. It's a standard but occasionally clever featurette that weaves clips from the movie with special footage highlighting the difficulty of finding the right person in a society. "The Bridget Phenomenon" focuses on Bridget herself-Helen Fielding. Well, actually according to Helen and the film's director Sharon McGuire Helen really isn't Bridgett. She just assumed her identity for the famous columns she wrote. Interviews with the cast members discussing the perception that being single is full of woe. Fielding discusses the great appeal of Bridget lies in the gap of how their expected to be and how they actually are. "Portrait of the Make Up Artist" focuses on Graham Johnston the chief make up artist on "Bridget Jones Diary" and the newly released sequel. All the other featurettes and Special Features appeared on the first edition of this funny comedy with the exception of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" trailer. There's also reviews of the first film on this disc.
The original release had the feature commentary by director Sharon Maguire, the behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the movie, deleted scenes. Contrary to the listing here the original Bridget Jones' Diary Columns appeared on the first disc as well. Missing from the new edition are the music videos. That's about it. The film sounds and looks exactly the same as the previous edition.
If you haven't purchased the film before or rented it on video but didn't buy the DVD, this new edition is worthwhile picking up. If you have the previous edition, these new featurettes will only make this worthwhile if you will watch them (some folks don't pay attention to featurettes at all or watch them one time)more than one time. All of the new featurettes are quite entertaining but hardly essential.
Regardless of which edition you buy, this is a delightful, funny, frothy and clever film that you can enjoy on your own or with a signficant other. Step into Bridget's world and, if you haven't seen this and are going to see the sequel, definitely pick this up first for a delightful introduction to Bridget and her men.
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Summary: Not Just a Chick Flick
Review: "Bridget Jones's Diary" is much more than a chick flick. This movie has all the makings of the funniest of funnies- it combines comic situations with mature (and not-so-mature) humor, but also takes a more serious tone.What makes this movie much more than it seems is that it is a modern day Pride and Prejudice. The central characters all line up to Austen's- the plot is very similar, if not exact. Helen Fielding cleverly makes this movie about womens' issues enjoyable even for men. See this movie with a date, or by yourself for a good, hardy laugh.
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Summary: Fun. Funny. Nothing great. It's just a chick flick.
Review: "Thumbs Down!" Why are audiences raving about this film? Sure, there's a few laughs, but Renee is just using the "F" word, the "B" word and the "S" word--- what is so great? It reminded me of Erin Brockovich, in a way. They have somewhat of the same personality. This film coughs up a few giggles, but it is just a girly movie, men will wanna go to Tomb Raider or Kiss of the Dragon. Bridgette can be cool here and there, but her use of profanity is just everywhere which is the only reason why Bridgette Jones's Diary is labeled as a comedy. This diary is just filled with slop.
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Summary: Classy adaptation of English singleton life
Review: 'Bridget Jones Diary' is an exuberant film based on the book of the same name. This hilarious comedy is centered on Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger), a 30-something single woman who works at a publishing company where she has an affair with her boss Daniel (Hugh Grant). This is where the fun begins and from this point onwards, her childhood friend turned nemesis Mark Darcy (played with sarcastic finesse by Colin Firth) becomes hesitantly interested in her but unfortunately because of twisted lies, Bridget is completely antagonistic towards him. The film continues to show that Bridget has two men to choose from: the womanising Hugh Grant or the composed Colin Firth. Which man does she choose? The film is great in confusing the audience while adding extra dimensions by explaining other subplots. Some people might say that this film is too light-hearted to be taken seriously but it is such a laughter-riot that it makes the viewer remember that films don't always have to be serious and you can laugh and enjoy a film with a top cast. Zellweger is great in portraying the self-conscious Bridget Jones, Grant = smooth as the arrogant publishing boss and Firth is fantastic at what he does best : the calm and aloof lawyer. The DVD is not great at all - where are the extensive foreign subtitles that are on most DVDs? But the film makes the DVD shine despite its disadvantages.
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Summary: Fun and funny
Review: (...) I enjoyed it tremendously, especially on DVD. Colin Firth reanimates an updated edition of the stuffy Mr. Darcy character that he so magnetically portrayed in Pride and Prejudice. There is something so entrancing in the way he engages the audience with those intense brown eyes. Renee Z. is really cute and believable as Bridget Jones. She has the pale skin and cheeky wholesomeness often seen in British actors even though Renee is an American. Her considerable, innate personal charm adds to a role that, in the hands of a less gifted actor, may have been difficult to pull off. Hugh Grant is, refreshingly, quite thoroughly smarmy in his role as the boyfriend who is basically a jerk. I always enjoy him as an actor, and this film adds a new dimension to his acting chops. His recital of that really vulgar poem while sitting in the boat on the lake where Firth and his companion are also boating and trying to discuss legal matters in their formal and so correct manner is hilarious. They overhear the recital and watch as Grant straddles the two boats in his attempt to join Bridget in hers and when Grant falls into the water it is a real "gotcha" on film. It was embarrasing, funny and you can tell that the actors were having a ball doing that scene. This is a fun movie for those times when one needs a reminder about relationships and how they impact one's life and one's mood, good, bad or indifferent. As Colin Firth portrays in this story, at times it is hip to be square. A cool film.
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Summary: Single humour.
Review: ,,,I read the book when it came out, and have been looking forward to see the film ever since. I love the book, and don't think the film fully got the atmosphere of it, though the film stands perfectly alone. Renèe Zellweger is Bridget taken perfectly out of the book. A single woman in her thirties with people all around her expecting her to be a spinster all her life, while she is desperately hunting for the right man. She knows she eats too much, drinks too much, lives too unhealthy, and decides to start a diary to get hold of her life. The wonderful, funny part of it all is her self humour, and Zellweger plays this role to perfection. All predictabilities are there, a boss to fall in love with and having an affair with, a mother who is trying to "live her own life" running away from her father with a man she meets while she is never satisfied with the life Bridget lives, friends, among them a gay man, who tries to advise her about her life, and the respectable, though terrible boring Marc Darcy. Zellweger plays her role so filled with charm and is the one who does the whole film. Huge Grant, as the boss, and Colin Firth as Marc Darcy do quite good acting, but without Renée Zellweger to glue it all together the film would have lost it's magnificiance. Bridget Jones is British, and the story is British. Only one scene in the film was truly dissapointing - the fighting between Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) The scene were too violent and unreal, the story would have been much, much better if the fight could have been a fight to believe in. I think the fighting scene would do okay in an American movie, but not this 100 percent British story. All in all a great film. Not to match the book, but then very few films do...
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Summary: Hysterical -- to single women everywhere
Review: ...- Be prepared to split a seam laughing at this movie. I've seen it twice and laughed hysterically -- even the second time through. Can't wait for the video -- is definitely a "must own." The movie is VERY different than the book, different story lines and even some of the characters do (or don't do) very different things than in the book. BUT, the movie-makers stayed true to the feeling, humor and satire of the book, so the spirit of the book is not lost in the movie. I can't recommend this movie enough. GO SEE IT!! :o)
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Summary: Dear diary: Today I've watched a v. good movie
Review: .... Meet the charming World of Bridget Jones , her mother and her friends! Bridget(Renée Zellweger, v.hillarious)is a 30-something old/young, single, overweight and smoking Woman who's looking for the right guy. To find that guy Bridget will loose some weight and control her drinking and smoking-problem. Soon Bridget falls for her Boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, good). After some romantic months with him he dumps her! Bridget now is totally down and feels v. bad till an old friend of her, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth, v.good) seems to be interested for her... Bridget's friends are supporting her threw those hard times. This,Ladies and Gentlemen, is a brilliant movie about love, friends and life! Just as good as the Novel by Helen Fielding! Renée Zellweger is brilliant again and the perfect Mrs. Jones! Two Thumbs up!
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Summary: Not as bad as the book....
Review: ...even though my opinion of the book was so low that this could mean almost anything. If my opinion of the book was so low, why did I bother to watch the movie? Probably because it was towards the end of a 10 hour transatlantic flight, and I didn't have anything better to do... And I must admit I was pleasantly surprised: the movie - Bridget (and all the other characters) were much more human like than the book characters. I think this is the first time I'd rather see the movie than read the book... I don't think I'll buy the DVD, but people who like this genre might really enjoy it, because it's not a bad movie for its kind.
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