a pure delight

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2001)

Wonderful film with a fantastic performance by the super-talented Renee Zwelleger, ably supported by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, both marvelous, as was the entire cast.
Strangely, I saw this film and "Someone Like You" around the same time -the basic plots are the same, though the subplots are quite different. And, of course, both use the song "Someone Like You" at the end! But Bridget Jones is a real film and Someone Like You a TV movie reject someone got Ashley Judd to star in. Amazing how the same basic plot can be so differently handled.
There were many laugh out loud moments, to the extent that a man behind me said, "I'd like to hear the movie," after Hugh Grant gave a line reading that rocked the audience.
I had one criticism and that was that the film could have been a little shorter. Bravo, Renee and the entire cast on a great time at the movies.