I Love This Film!

Rating: 8/10 (3 August 2002)

For the hundreds of reasons people have already mentioned, I love this film. It is, very simply, incredibly entertaining! Now, come my (few) non-standard reasons for enjoying Bridget Jones. First, it was directed by a woman. Very, very few films are (pay attention sometime, it will really shock you!), and I appreciate so much seeing a female succeeding and promoting other females to succeed through her subject matter. Next, the way Bridget looks at men. Do you ever get tired (really, really tired) of watching the camera slowly slide up the backside of some starlet? Was it not the most refreshing thing in the world when the camera slowly slid up Colin Firth's backside? Did you not want to stand up and cheer? I most certainly did! Finally, this was a film that displayed joy. So many movies are just so exhausted. Even many comedies just walk along comely, doing their thing and hoping to sell more tickets - but this was a film with heart and soul and joy and humor. I would even go so far as to (gasp!) say it improved upon the book. This is one of my favorite comedies of all time, and every time I see it, I just get the happiest, silliest grin on my face. If you are vacillating on whether or not to watch Bridget Jones (I really have no idea why you would be doing that or why this review matters at all, really), you must see this film~