Bridget Jones Diary

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May 14, 2001

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Saw Bridget Jones's Diary. Imagine Ally McBeal with a healthy appetite and a crappy professional life and you have this film in a nutshell.

The two things I liked about this movie were Rene Zellweiger's willingness to look like Jake LaMotta for a part and Hugh Grant as a leering, slimey cad who gets his jaw busted. Zellweiger is truly unattractive and hence believeable, while Grant was actually watchable with less than two tablespoons of Pepto Bismol. OTOH, if Colin Firth calls that acting, then most housewives deserve Oscars.

It's not a grotesquely bad movie in any way, but wait until the video when you have mixed sex company and don't want to offend anyone (or at least anyone who can handle dialogue with lots of "fuck" usage). A harmless trifle.

 

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