And totally hot! So hot. She may have put on weight for the role but American born and raised Renee is super gloriously gorgeous as Brit Bridget Jones on a whole 'nother scale that's difficult to calibrate! She's so pretty and not fat. This is a really sexually forward movie with all the butt touching and dirty talk and all, am I lame, or are these guys creeps? A little bit of both. I love Renee. Her laugh is intense and she looks so "wanking" amazing in her underwear in Bridget Jones's Diary and in her bunny costume too, wow. This funny movie is so hilarious and really quite good. Bridget's narration is great! I'm a single hot intellectual sweet pervy unlame dude & I love BJD! It's so precisely, balls to the walls, exactly my type of movie that it's difficult to calibrate. I Loooooove Renee Zellweger!!! She's my fav and so sexy and funny and so hot.
... View MoreI heard many different reviews about this film, so wasn't sure what to expect. But I really enjoyed the film. It includes a lot of comedy and I would recommend this even if you haven't watched the others. It's definitely worth the watch. Definitely a gripping storyline to keep viewers interested and never gets the boring moments as many films do.
... View More32-year old spinster and lunatic Bridget Jones is alone and aloof, living in London with no love to call her own. She made a resolution to start writing in a diary, promising herself to get better physically and simultaneously dealt with other life problems. Things start to change this year when she met two men that somehow gravitated towards her but despised each other's company.Romantic comedies usually suffer from the case of a predictable plot and generic characters. This movie doesn't escape those stereotypes either. Packed with a clever script and solid execution, this movie tiptoes the romantic parts and the comedic ones. Some moments were definitely a bit too sweet to be true and too wacky of a comedy, yet somehow it has all the right twists and turns of a movie that will keep you glued. Sure, it has a big unnecessary subplot just to fill the empty duration, but with a supporting cast this strong, I wouldn't mind having to take a break from all the love triangle that was going on.Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth may not have that strong of a chemistry, but throw Hugh Grant into the mix and somehow all three of them play each other off really well. Zellweger particularly went lengths for this movie, and I must applaud her for her impeccable comedic timing and sweet charm that lured me into liking her careless, clueless character.It was a sweet romantic comedy for a date night, but don't expect anything original or mind-blowing about it. It's still just a fun romantic comedy, amazingly engineered and well-acted.
... View MoreI'm gonna come straight out and say it – I don't really love romcoms. Recent and future entries in this blog may lead you to think otherwise, with both "Love Actually" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" reviewed within days of each other. Actually no, on further thought, I love a lot of romcoms. The classics, like "Some Like it Hot" or "Manhattan", or recent subversions of the genre, such as "(500) Days of Summer" and "Punch Drunk Love", are films which I admire greatly despite being in this genre. These are the films which either began the clichés in an unforced and genuinely romantic way, or which turned the conventions on their heads. "Bridget Jones's Diary" is occasionally funny, sickly sweet, but does nothing in the way of breaking convention.The film follows the title character, played by Renée Zellweger, and her search for love with a few different men – including those played by Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Her impressions of the two change throughout the film as she gets new information, with her love for Daniel Cleaver (Grant) turning into hatred after he cheats on her, and her hatred for Mark Darcy (Firth) turning into love. She is a clumsy woman, prone to faux-pas, which leads to some interesting and witty comedy, and often leaves her unlucky in love.Renée Zellweger is a good choice for Jones, and she passes off a sense of 'ordinary' which is important for the character. The comic set pieces and dialogue is managed well by her and she is actually a very likable character. Colin Firth also brings across the bumbling British romantic well, and despite their initial hatred for each other, you see how the two work as a couple. The biggest problem is Hugh Grant, who I continue to dislike strongly. Having seen this and "Four Weddings" in such close proximity, it's hard not to draw comparisons between their characters, basically the same in both."Bridget Jones's Diary" has a lot of great things in some cast choices, and some excellently funny moments. The fight scene between the two men is genuinely funny, and I love many of Zellweger's scenes, particularly her terrible public speaking. Where it falls down is at the bare romance and reliance on genre clichés. It's too predictable and from the introduction of both men, we know which one she's going to fall for. The one grace in this is that, despite its cheese, the final scene is very sweet. It's not a particularly clever film, but then again, it's not trying to be. I didn't love it, but I'm sure that fans of this genre will – especially if they take a particular fancy to Hugh Grant.
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