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From page 7 of McCafferty’s first novel: “Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget??s braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh-grade honors classes...
From page 7 of McCafferty’s first novel: “Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget??s braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh-grade honors classes...
Janeane Garofalo fails to transcend her real-life stature as the towering giraffe Bridget??Benny’s love interest. Most unfortunately, the omni-talented pansexual Eddie Izzard is barely intelligible as Nigel the blathering British koala. I suppose the second-rate direction by first-timer Steve “Spaz” Williams is to blame...
...certain class—always a popular subject for writers and artists—has acquired a career, a shopping fixation, and an astounding ability to get herself into embarrassing situations. She likes to label the men in her life: “the emotional fuckwit” in Bridget??s case, or “the fuck-buddy” in Carrie’s. Which brings us to the most important thing our modern-day heroine enjoys: fucking, with all its delights and complications...
...movie is not just less funny than the first, but also seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget??s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her way through mishap after mishap with an excess of charm. Sadly, in this movie, our everywoman, and, by extension, singletons everywhere, are turned into the nastiest joke...