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...enough of people pontificating on the evils of speed in a blind spew of judgmental ignorance. Unless you've taken that hit yourself and felt the rush, then crashed hard in anguish and despair afterward, I'm not interested in your opinion on the subject. BRIDGET Q. CAIN San Diego
...English. One glance at Houston's own Renee Zellweger, and all anxiety about the casting of an American as Britain's favorite wounded bird of the '90s vanishes. (Hey, if Vivien Leigh could play Scarlett O'Hara...) She fits in, and stands out, perfectly. And as the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching...
Ultimately, the heart of Bridget Jones’s Diary is Zellweger. Despite all the controversy concerning the casting of the petite Texan as the British Bridget (London’s Evening Standard declared the decision an act of “clunking, Hollywood idiocy,” noting that casting Zellweger as Bridget Jones was like casting Jude Law as the Elephant Man), Zellweger absolutely sparkles and charms in the role. With an additional and visibly obvious 20 pounds added to her normally petite frame, it initially appears as if the filmmakers have missed the point of Bridget Jones...
...silently observes Bridget’s liaisons with the deceptive “Cleave,” slowly revealing his growing tenderness for the girl, until he can take no more. Granted, it’s a role that he is all too familiar with, but when he tells Bridget that he likes her “just as you are,” I melted and started wondering where my Darcy...
...main quibble with the film lies in that fact that although the film presents Bridget as an archetype for modern singles, her predicament is still somewhat inaccessible while it strives to be universal. However, as a modern singleton, I was thoroughly enchanted by the film...