I liked Bridget Jones: she is different

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2002)

This movie is extremely pleasant, funny and endearing. It is also a relief to break from the typical perfectly successful, thin, invariably rich blonde that one finds in the American movies from the same class with Bridget Jones (such as "When Harry met Sally", "Sleepless is Seattle", "You've got mail" etc. Love Meg Ryan, but sorry! have to be honest.) Bridget is different especially through her ability to think about what she is and what others are. And, as some of us know, when one has a world inside one's head, sometimes one goofs with the world outside! The script could have been better, sometimes things go too fast, I think. But it follows the book and it doesn't disappoint. Renee Zellweger delivers a performance decidedly worthed an Oscar, she has the talent of a great comedienne. Colin Firth is wonderful (as Mark Darcy), he can do a heartbroken, handsome, rich divorce like no other (hopefully he can do more than that!). I love Colin Firth in all his movies that I have seen; unfortunately, his presence in this one gives the movie an air of unrealism, because the guy is too handsome not to be snotty and vain. But because he is so unbelievably good natured, he makes us dream that he could be a real man. Hugh Grant succeeds in being annoying, which is the purpose of his character (Daniel Cleaver). One should not accuse the movie or the character Bridget Jones for lack of philosophic depth, for imperfection, pretentiousness, or anything alike, because this movie is not trying to show how we should be, but is just telling a story of how some of us are. The story is beautiful, the characters are well contoured and there is enough romanticism (see unrealism!) to make one dream and want to see the movie again, or read the books again. Another excellent point for the movie is that it is definitely not targeted to the half-brained sex-obsessed American teenage generation.