Advantages: The laughs, the characters and the acting Disadvantages: Might not have lived up to the book - I wouldn't know, I haven't read it yet.
...just the way everyone imagines Bridget to be. Even her accent was practically flawless.
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth play the men in Bridget’s life. Grant as her caddish boss and two-timing boyfriend Daniel Cleaver, and Firth as Mark Darcy, the nice divorced man her ghastly mother tries to set her up with and later tries to win her heart. Both play their parts wonderfully. It’s a bit of a turn around for Hugh Grant though, who usually plays nice-but-dull ...
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Advantages: Lighthearted and easy to follow. Disadvantages: Book is better than the film
...right after the opening scene. Bridget is sat on her sofa, alone in her pyjamas, getting progressively more sloshed, pretending to be Celine Dion singing "All By Myself". That had me in stitches as it's the sort of thing we've all done when we've had a bit too much and start feeling sorry for ourselves! Things got even better
when Colin Firth turned round, at Una Alconbury's post Christmas "Turkey Curry Buffet" to reveal a "lovely" knitted polo neck ...
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Advantages: quite funny Disadvantages: quite under-developed in some parts
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after seeing numerous pictures of Renee Zellweger next to just about every feminine article published I decided to go and see the mutch-talked about Brdget Jones's Diary. Like most blokes I was worried that the film might be aimed at the female audiance and leaving most of us wondering what the fuss was about. Fortunatley , despite having a certain 'chick flick' aspects, the film will still make you laugh ...
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Advantages: Excellant film Disadvantages: Not enough hanky panky. No Guns. No car chases. No Murders
...the part of a 30+ Bridget Jones who bumps along in life slightly overweight, while drinking and smoking excessively. This I can really relate to except I dont look good in a short skirt.
Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) both have messy relationships with Bridget and have unexpected twists in the tales. The film is funny and the scene with the giant knickers had me on the floor as I laughed that much I dropped my can of lager ...
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Advantages: Sweet and funny, well-acted, good for its type Disadvantages: You need to be in the right frame of mind
Bridget Jones's Diary: three words that currently divide the nation. Some people will squeal with delight, whilst others recoil in horror and vow never to watch this film so long as they live. They, however, will be the ones missing out on a perfectly enjoyable film. You just have to be in the right frame of mind.
If you step back and imagine that this is not the adaptation of a million-selling book, you will see that it is actually quite a modest ...
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Me and my girlfriend both found this film very enjoyable. I was worried that it was going to be a girlie film just poking fun at men with in jokes that only women would really find funny. This was not the case at all. It's a must for anybody who has ever been forced to wear Christmas clothes at a family gathering. Also a must for any men who work in offices, have never been in a fight and wonder how they would perform under the pressure if the situation ...
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Advantages: Funny, and great! Disadvantages: It has to End!
Bridget Jones was released in 2001.
Run Time: 97 mins
Director: Sharon McGuire.
I first watched this film in 2001 after sneaking out of the library with a group of college friends! It was a great way to bring our friendship back together and enjoy laughter once again through the stressful time that dissertations bring!
Bridget Jones is based on the successful Novel Bridget Jones’s Diary 1996 By Helen Fielding, together with Screenwriters Andrew ...
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...go and see what The Bridget Jones's Diary was like because I had spoken to so many different people about the film and have heard different opinions about the film so on Tuesday night, I found the money and dragged my Best friend down to the cinema and we watched The Bridget Jones's Diary.
The film started with her at home, sitting around in her red pyjama's with a glass of Chardonay in her hand, singing her heart out to Celine Dion's All By Myself. ...
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Advantages: Very funny, easy to understand Disadvantages: none
...highly funny, including seens of Bridget sliding down a firemans pole and revealing her arse on national tv; drunken behaviour; countless self help books and cookery disasters - proving that not all of us women are as good cooks as men think. Bridget tries to cook for her friends and ends up with blue soup! Which everyone then pretends to enjoy throughout fits of laughter.
She is constantly calorie counting and every entry in her diary summarises ...
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Advantages: Funny, Great Actors Disadvantages: 'Chick flick' staus
BRIDGET JONES DIARY WAS THE HIGHLY AWAITED ADAPTATION OF HELEN FEILDINGS BESTSELLER. THIS WAS TO BE A FILM WHICH WOULD APPEAL TO THE NATION, A ROMANTIC COMEDY WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF THE CLASSIC JANE AUSTEN NOVEL, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
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INFORMATION
Running Time : 93 Minutes
Rating : 15
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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Advantages: Funny, easy to watch Disadvantages: Never going to happen to a real life 30-something
...and Richard Curtis. In 2001 Bridget Jones Diary hit the big screen, some were sceptical, some were optimistic but the aftermarth tells more than the anticipation.
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New Year's Day and Bridget wakes up with an awful hangover from the night before. She's still single, still over weight and being a 30-something London girl neither of those is much fun. She decides to take charge of her life and keep a diary teling the truth about Bridget Jones.
The ...
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I never fancied reading Bridget Jones' Diary but felt that I should go and see the film, after it received such good reviews, and I'm very glad I did as it was brilliant. Renee Zellweger is excellent as Bridget and her English accent is surprisingly realistic. Hugh Grant is at his best playing a bastard and looks better than he ever done in any of his previous films.
For those of you that are not familiar with the plot, Bridget Jones is a thirty ...
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Advantages: Great film and very well prodced and very good soundtrack and good casting. Disadvantages: Hugh Grant.
Well at last Bridget Jones is out on video, i must admit after reading the book i was dreading renting the film because the book was so good that i just thought that the film would ruin the story.
But the story about a woman who faces being single for the rest of her life and forever dieting is brought to life by Renee Zelleger and i've insisted that i get it as a present for christmas, what a stocking filler.
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...storyline, a love triangle between Bridget (a thirty-something spinster who works in publishing), Daniel (her sexy bad-boy boss)*Hugh Grant - ooh!gorgeous!* and Mark (the good-boy divorcee who is recommended by Bridget's mum).
There are some hilarious cameo roles in this film too, such as Bridget's
mum's ------ (you'll know what I mean when you watch it, I'm not going to give it away here).
Although the ending was quite predictable (take ...
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Advantages: very funny Disadvantages: omissions from the book
...thirty something female just like Bridget to get the humour or empathise with the situations she gets herself into. I have not read the book by helen Fielding, so went to see the film without any preconceptions and thought it was brilliant. While there have been some comments about the appropriateness of Renee (an american actress from Texas) playing the role of Bridget she does a fantastic job, as she goes from one mishap to another looking for mr. ...
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