The movie is often clunkily paced and edited.
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04/13/01
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:120
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In the screen adaptation of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon, documentary filmmaker (and real-life inspiration for the character Shazzer) Sharon Maguire... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent
Director: Sharon Maguire
Reviews for Bridget Jones' Diary
Its cast sparkles, much of it is genuinely hilarious and it communicates its heroine's emotional panic with precision, wit and style.
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Fun, charming and exuding the similar feel and aura that made Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral so popular.
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Zips along at a laugh-a-minute pace and fully involves the viewer in Bridget's little slice of life.
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Makes for deft (if weightless) entertainment.
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The script is teasingly, pleasingly raunchy in places.
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Moves along with a confident laugh track sensibility and is always innocuously likable if somewhat imperfect -- a lot like Bridget herself.
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Achieves the rare feat of being both old-fashioned and post-modern and still finding a way toward a happy ending.
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It almost kicks the atypical chick flick onto its Oprah-sized backside.
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The thrust of the story is how miserable it is being a single young woman while still making it look like a lark.
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Warm and charming and often witty, it's as good a romantic comedy as has come out for some time.
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Consistently, giddily witty, delivering one memorable zinger after another.
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A wickedly funny ode to incurable romantics wherever they might live, love and lose.
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Actually much funnier than Helen Fielding's best-selling book.
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Time and again, we find ourselves unsure how to respond.
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If you loved Field's book ... you'll like the film.
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Women here and abroad are going to laugh with her, cry with her, steam with her, frost with her and totally identify after this gloriously full, heartfelt, generous performance.
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It's glib when it should be witty, flat in situations demanding heels and wants us to believe that an actress celebrated for her beauty would perceive herself as unappealing.
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As good as Zellweger is, she's very nearly upstaged by Grant, who sends up his previous, charm-filled movie characters quite convincingly.
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You feel like Diary is using its initial originality just to set you up for the same old thing.
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