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Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 30

Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 12

Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm.

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Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal with her job in publishing, she visits her parents for a Christmas party. They try to set her up with Mark (Colin Firth), the visiting son of one of their neighbors. Snubbed by Mark, she instead falls

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Comedy, Romance

Richard Curtis

Oct 9, 2001

$70.8M

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All Critics (156) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (31) | DVD (28)

As a film, however, item misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget's inner life.

April 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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It's so aggressive you don't even have to like it; the movie likes itself well enough for the both of you.

April 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Ms. Zellweger makes the most of what she's given and manages to triumph time and again over her pratfalls and public rump displays. In a word, she's terrific.

April 27, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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This ultra-hyped adaptation of the ultra-successful Helen Fielding novel sends you out with a smile on your face.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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It's Zellweger's unselfishness that sells the movie. How many other young actresses would be willing to let a movie make fun of their fat thighs?

November 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Yes, the movie adaptation is just fine, thank you.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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A blessed reminder of just how good -- and how pointed -- British comedies can be.

June 25, 2012 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Oh, such fun for older teens!

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Casting Renee Zellweger as this British icon drew plenty of flak. But she proved impossible to not root for while flashing a sweet smile, bunching her body up in a "right-o, old chap" shoulder shrug and waddle-walking in unflattering panties and girdles.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

Just seconds into Sharon Maguire's adaptation of Helen Fielding's beloved novel, it's hard to imagine that there was such controversy surrounding the casting of Renee Zellweger.

December 28, 2008 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

Provides a few laughs but failed to make me care on which loves-me, loves-me-not petal this film ends.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

A cheerfully frothy romantic comedy that benefits from sharp writing, lively performances and touching characterisation.

April 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

The filmmakers are uncritically in love with their heroine and her milieux and have romanticised them to an almost laughable degree.

April 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

Renee Zellweger, a born Texan, not only nails the most beloved woman of modern British fiction but embodies and owns her.

August 11, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

A ripping success.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

With great energy, style and humor, Maguire takes us into Bridget's tumultuous journey out of spinsterhood and into the tumultuous world of dating.

December 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

...if you like the movie and you haven't bought it yet, the special Collector's Edition makes sense. (Collector's Edition DVD)

November 15, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Americans...will find Zellweger's newly acquired English accent believable enough to enjoy her comic performance.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Audience Reviews for Bridget Jones's Diary

Classic rom-com.
November 19, 2006
Raajay

Super Reviewer

Bridget Jones's Diary looks at the life of a thirty something trying to get her life on track. Of course this means finding a man. Enter the frame two suitors. The charming and funny Daniel Cleaver, and the dull and sensible Mark Darcy. Bridget at first falls into all the trappings laid by Cleaver. This is actually highly believable as Cleaver is played by Hugh Grant. Grant captures that unmistakable schoolboy charm, and blends it with his often cruel wit. It's simple to feel at ease with him, even though you know he's a bit of a twat. Firth plays himself wonderfully respectable. His inability to express himself can often be painful. At the heart of it all is Bridget Jones played excellently by Zelwegger. She isn't some desperate hussy, or lonely weirdo. She's a good role model that makes some mistakes. The humour often goes for that very British awkwardness, and the script is sometimes let down being based on a fictitious diary and all. Luckily we get some truly unforgettable moments, such as the fight scene between Grant and Firth, which is very hysterical, in both it's choreography and pacing.
May 24, 2006
kiriyamakazou

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    1. Bridget Jones: Now, I'll go home and... de-bunny.
    – Submitted by Guido M (18 months ago)
    1. Bridget Jones: And that was it. Right there. Right there, that was the moment... I suddenly realized that unless something change soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine and I'd finally die fat and alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by Alsatians, or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
    – Submitted by Iza C (20 months ago)
    1. Mark Darcy: Mother, I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother.
    – Submitted by Iza C (20 months ago)
    1. Interviewer 1: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon?
    2. Bridget Jones: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out.
    – Submitted by Karina V (20 months ago)
    1. Bridget Jones: Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.
    2. Mark Darcy: Oh yes, they fuckin' do.
    – Submitted by Mauricio R (21 months ago)
    1. Bridget Jones: This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
    – Submitted by Mauricio R (21 months ago)

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