'Bridget
Jones: Edge of Reason' sure fun for
women, insightful for men
By Ana Antunes
Raise your hand,
girl, if you've ever identified with
Bridget Jones.
Come on, go ahead.
Nobody is looking. Even if it's hard
to admit, most women have felt like
the character.
One day she feels
fat, the day after that she feels
hot, the day after that depressed.
She can go from being deeply in love
to thinking all men are jerks.
Bridget Jones:
The Edge of Reason follows the
steps of the first movie.
Renee Zellweger
interprets Bridget, and Colin First
and Hugh Grant are also back. The
movie starts exactly where the other
one finished -- Christmas dinner at
her mom's house. But this year is
different: Bridget has a boyfriend.
And one who likes
her "just the way she is."
And the way she
is, is being clumsy, talking more
than she should and making everybody
around her feel uncomfortable. The
scene in which she can't help telling
everyone she has a boyfriend, finally,
is hilarious.
But the perfect
end she planned starts to falls down
when a new lawyer comes to work with
her boyfriend, Mark Darcy.
The new lawyer is
a 22-year-old woman who happens to
be very pretty and skinny.
The girl makes Bridget
feel insecure and think Mark is cheating
on her.
The scene in which
Bridget goes to the formal dinner
with Mark deserves a comment, especially
when she walks up the stairs with
a dress so tight that makes her walk
like a penguin -- very funny.
After that, it is
all downhill. Depression takes over
and TV and ice cream are her only
friends.
But it can get worse,
after finding out that Daniel Cleaver
is now working in the same TV station
that she is, she is send to Thailand
with him.
A round of applause
for Ms. Jones; she deserves it for
resisting the charm of an irresistible
Daniel Cleaver.
Her friend comes
with her and falls in love with a
guy on the plane. On the way back
he gives her a "present"
and she asks Bridget to carry it.
But the "gift"
is full of cocaine and Bridget ends
up in jail. And in a cell with probably
30 Thai girls she ends up doing an
impression of Madonna singing Like
a Virgin. Awesome!!!!
And guess who comes
to save her? Yes, human rights lawyer,
Mr. Darcy. OK, maybe this is kind
of a girl movie. But guys who take
a chance and decide to take their
girlfriends/dates to the movies will
also have a good time. The jokes about
relationships between men and women
are funny for both sides: For her
because she identifies with the situation,
and for him because he might leave
the theater being sure that girls
are really complicated.
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