Ugh...

Rating: 3/10 (11 June 2018)

BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY is exactly the kind of film I hate watching: a chick lit adaptation which is supposedly warm, quirky and loving, but which instead turns out to be a presentation of cliches, lame humour, and some embarrassing mugging performances. It's the film that soured me to Renee Zellweger with all of her fake mannerisms and plummy, fake-sounding British accent. I have liked Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in other films and I'll admit that they work very hard on their characters here, but the end result is just too schmaltzy to be effective.