Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | | Cast : | Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant | | Director : | Beeban Kidron | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 19, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | March 22, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Is that the way UK people do comedy? | Content
 | I was and I am still crazy about the first movie of Bridget Jones: I have watched it more than 10 times on DVD. I can laugh and cry with her every single time. And there were so many moments that you feel that she were just you in the real life and have no way out. The screenplay was so well written, even much better than the original fiction in a reasonable funny drama way. All the characters in the movie are so outstanding, also the music; dialogue...perfect! It makes you want to watch it over and over again and never feel bored.
But this one? (sigh...) Is that how UK movie try comedy? Maybe they should stick to their old gun. At some stage, I was thinking maybe it was a bad idea for them to make the second movie for Bridget Jones out of the second fiction. Or should I say, I expected too much? Put in this way, it is more like just an ordinary UK comedy! With exaggerated drama, boring screenplay, over weight character, custom and music...I feel sorry for Bridget. It looks like everyone (mainly the director and the screenplay writer) just want to make fun out of her as much they can. There is no touching moment any more. Even when Mark asked her to marry him at the end, I didn't feel anything at all.
When I read the second book of Bridget, I thought the only storyline in it can match with the first book and the movie is how Bridget deal with this new, long waited relationship, how she build up the trust and commitment with Mark after all they have been through in their previous life. In the book, Mark did have had some affair with Rebecca, but back to Bridget eventually. However, in the movie, Rebecca has been changed into a lez and the whole thing that Mark has an affair was just a joke. The only sophisticated part left over in the second book has been left out in the movie. Well, it is good in a comedy and drama way. I had a good laugh in the cinema, too. But not in a natural way, and there is nothing left on my mind as soon as the screen started to show the credits at the end.
I asked lots of people around me who have seen the second one: Those ones who only watched the second movie said it is a funny comedy. Those ones who watched both of them, but mainly under age 25, said they liked the second one more, because it is funny. Those ones who watched both but more mature told me they think it might not even worth to compare the second one with the first one...Maybe that explains!
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| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | 10 times funnier than the first one! | Content
| OH MY GOSH! Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason is 10 times funnier than than the first one!! I just couldn't stop laughing ! It's soooooo funny! I almost laughed EVERY 5-10 minutes! It's fabulous! U should NEVER miss this film!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Disappointing | Content
| Did anyone notice the similarities between Brokedown Palace with Claire Danes to Bridget's time in Thailand? I found the wonderbra scene particularly inane and it seemed to downplay the seriousness of the imprisoned women's condition while Bridget unrealistically skips out of prison like a Catholic schoolgirl. It just tried too hard to be humorous in the wrong places and didn't capitalize on what could have been genuinely funny. It seemed to be one of those sequels that plays off of the funny moments from the first movie instead of creating new humor. Also, while Daniel Cleaver was a likeable cad in the first movie, he comes off as a genuine fool in the second. Bridget was adorable in the first movie, but just plain dumpy in this one - I couldn't figure out what Mark saw in her. Like another reviewer said, she failed as an "everywoman." I could identify with her in the first movie, but if I could identify with her in this one, I would be embarrassed to admit it. Further, Rebecca was unrecognizable (from her book character) and what kind of horrible friend is Shaza?
That being said, this movie wasn't unwatchable as far as entertainment value goes. Mark Darcy was still great though the fight scene was silly and forced. Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant were tolerable. Renee seemed to be a bit more of a poseur and not as "real" as her original Bridget character, but she wasn't terrible. I would recommend this to anyone who is not a Bridget fanatic and who liked the first movie. I am a big fan of the first movie and book, and so found this movie disappointing. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Unpleasant and unfunny | Content
| As other reviewers have noted, this time around the film makers have made Bridget SO inept and inane that she's just not funny. The focus is on her incredibly bad mismatch with Mark Darcy and after the second or third break-up you wish they'd just end it and get it over with. We really needed much more of Hugh Grant's Daniel Cleaver for it seems he's the only one who really seems to like Bridget this time around. But when the film takes a preposterously unrealisticturn into a Thai prison it moves from unfunny to decidedly unpleasant. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | We laugh at her, not with her.... | Content
| ...just like Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver says to Bridget at one point in the movie.
And this makes this movie hard to watch in many places. Bridget Jones was supposed to be sort of like an Everywoman, someone who other women could identify with who have bad days at work, bad hair days, aren't the perfect weight, and have been in bad relationships. But the writers and director just made her ridiculous in this one.
Renee Zellwegger is as good as she is in the first movie, but she's given a crummy script in my opinion. The relationshipship between her and Mark Darcy doesn't make any sense at all here, at least not nearly as much as it did in the first movie. They have absolutely nothing in common, despite supposedly having grown up in the same neighborhood. Colin Firth is gorgeous to look at as always, but the Mark Darcy character is so, well, haughty . I realize he's based on Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice', but in the book he at least displayed some humor sometimes, as he did in the first movie in the cooking scene.
In this movie he barely cracks a smile, though who can blame him when Bridget keeps doing embarrassing things whenever they're together. Honestly, it seems as if the people that made the film wanted to make her character a total figure of fun. Parts of it were actually cringe-producing. |
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