Bridget Jones's Diary DVD > Reviews > Have you got HOLDEVERYTHINGIN pants

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Good
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	hilarious, emotional, good fun
Disadvantages:	too short

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I am sure that any woman who watches ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ will, at some point, relate to the character.

With me, it was when she got on the scales and she was the same weight as myself! There was the big pants scene too which rang a few bells, you know your stomach looks so much better in your big ‘pull-everything-in’ pants but do you want to risk it, when you’re with your new love and tonight maybe the night!?

I hadn’t read the book before I went, although I may do now, so I had no idea what the film was going to be about.

It followed a year in the life of Bridget Jones, she is a little ‘pudgy’ not over weight just well rounded, she is without a man, smokes, drinks and is on a permanent yet at the same time none existent diet.

Basically the film tracks Bridget’s involvement with two men, the childhood friend and the office hunk.

It tracks her life through, meeting back up with the old childhood friend (whose paddling pool she used to play in – naked) at her mom’s Christmas party (played by Colin Firth, initially in the daftest jumper in cinema history) and her getting it together with office lothario (Hugh Grant) and believe all his stories (as we women do with the ‘wrong’ men don’t we?)

The film sees these two relationships form, change, end (and maybe begin again – but that would spoil it!) Set against the backdrop of her changing career, her mom having an affair with a Shopping Channel presenter with an orange tan, her dad just being depressed, and her friends rallying round. Although people say her friends play a more active part in the book.

My favourite scenes were;

Bridget sat in her flat, on her own, a little drunk, smoking and singing her head off to the CD player – now none of us do that do we?

The emailing scenes in the office, as that too was true to life, how many times have you and a friend exchanged mails at work, even though you are 3 metres away from each other, trying not to chuckle to yourself.

And running down the road in her underwear, personally I can’t say I can relate to this one, but it was funny nonetheless.

I thoroughly enjoyed the film and shall watch it again on video and TV when it does the rounds, it made me laugh, cry and cry with laughter too.

I took my partner, who was not looking forward to it, as he thought it was a ‘chick flick’ but I think he laughed louder and harder than me. Mmmm…maybe he was just relating it to me? Now there’s a thought!

If you do go and see it, don’t stand up to leave immediately as there are more funnies during the credits.

I was reading in a magazine about the three main actors in it, and how Renee Zellwegger had been chomping and pies and chocolate and drinking Guiness to get to the correct weight for it, whilst Firth and Grant had been going to the gym and cutting out fattening things to try to make themselves more hunky. Funny!

I also saw Renee on the awards ceremony, with her normal American accent (she does an excellent British one!) and her new slight figure, she looked fab.

Now if she can loose the weight so can I....

Helen's Diary
Cigarettes - none
Alcohol - none yet, but it is only 10.30am
Calories - 550 (and it's only 10.30am)
Waist - 30 inches
Hips - 40 inches
Weight - 9st 12lbs

Will start diet tomorrow, will get new job, must try harder.