Finally, a movie that us "fat chicks" can enjoy!

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2004)

What a nice change to see a leading character who's not wafer thin and perfect. Bridget Jones's flaws make her both entertaining and engaging: her inability to keep her mouth shut at the appropriate time, her inability to keep a job or to get the right one, her inability to become "the perfect woman" in the kitchen or the bedroom, her inability to make her life and her parents' lives work smoothly. Of course, we'd all like to have the dilemma of having to choose between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, and that might be the one part of this movie that's hard to get beyond. Were her boy toys just average looking, we might not feel so bad for whomever she cuts loose. My only other complaint about this movie is that the lead wasn't British (or even Australian). I can think of 10 great actresses (Helena Bonham Carter, Toni Collette, Minnie Driver, Jennifer Ehle, Catherine McCormack, Frances O'Connor, Julia Sawalha, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet) who would've let me focus more on the character and less on waiting for that moment when Renee Zellweger gave away her Texas roots.