Just plain funny.

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2006)

I admit, it was maybe around the time when this movie was released here in my country then, it was the Hugh Grant and the Colin Firth factor which made me secretly wish I could go watch the movie. I don't know, it was just like that. Suddenly thinking the British guys can be uh, handsome.
Five years on, I managed to catch it on cable.
Adapted from Helen Fielding's novel, it's about the main protagonist Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) trying to set things right on a new year by writing whatever she wants to say in her diary. In her 30s and still a single and a little kind of plump, she is determined to get a man in her life. The movie began with Bridget who went to attend a party and she met her former childhood friend who is now a lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Mark had been divorced with his wife and is single again.
But on the other hand, Bridget's boss in the publishing company she works for, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) started to become interested in her. Bridget found out later that her boss and childhood friend actually knew each other back in their university days. And the two guys never seemed to be on a good terms even before Bridget is in the middle of them.
It was made worse when Mark and Daniel realise they both like Bridget. Though Bridget found out once that Daniel had a girlfriend, Daniel told her they had broken up. And he told her that during her birthday. It was complicated to Bridget that Mark had did expressed his feelings to Bridget before Daniel came for the birthday party.
Well, who ended up had the girl in the end? The childhood friend or the boss?
Overall, I managed to catch the accents and I have to say Renee Zellweger did pretty a decent job in having a British accent for her role as Bridget to match with her fellow cast members. Definitely one movie which is just plain funny.