I guess that we can add Renee Zellweger to the list of Americans who can actually do a believable accent.

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2005)

I wouldn't call "Bridget Jones's Diary" the best movie of 2001 (and I usually have no interest in "chick flicks"), but I do think that it was worth seeing. Renee Zellweger plays the titular character, a working Brit who has some plans to drastically change her life. I think that Colin Firth's and Hugh Grant's characters weren't totally necessary, but I guess that they were conduits of a sort. Bridget herself can gravitate between sweet and bitchy, and she does just that. Overall, Zellweger's energy makes the movie really good. I don't know whether anyone else would have done the role better, but she certainly does a good job. Definitely worth seeing.