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What follows is a predictable love triangle in which Fielding??s protégé slowly grows closer with Fielding??s girlfriend. But to move us along without waiting for such inconveniences as “character development,” the script decides to just drastically rewrite the personalities of the main cast...
...that’s a red state). Ideal Date: My town has an annual Civil War reenactment that my father, mother and grand pappy participate in. I’ve always wanted to grab some soda pop from the apothecary and sit up on this big hill called Uncle Fielding??s Overlook and watch it with a girl. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Pop it and lock it, SON! Where to find you on a Saturday night: Manning the door at 44 JFK St. or hanging out at Tommy Doyle’s pretending...
With each revelation about the excesses of her Yalie-from-a-New-York-City-Prep-School lifestyle, Chloe blushes momentarily and then wades back into her orgy of shopping and poring over e-mails from some outpost of the male gender. Unlike Helen Fielding??s Bridget Jones, whose voice is so achingly human that we forgive and even love her self-absorbed behavior, we have no real reason to like Chloe. Bridget is a modern everywoman. But the location of Chloe’s story behind ivy-covered walls mandates that a different approach be taken?...
...can’t help but feel that this sequel betrays the delightfully subversive spirit of Helen Fielding??s comic creation. Admittedly, the raw material was less-than-stellar: putting aside the side-splitting botched interview with Colin Firth which for obvious reasons could not be included in the movie (having Colin Firth play Colin Firth would be far too Spike Jonze), the novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason lacks the consistent hilarity and striking originality of its predecessor, Bridget Jones’ Diary...
...hands of familiar scribes Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and A Funeral, Notting Hill) and Andrew Davies (the BBC’s 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice), Fielding??s novel—which is literally written in the style of diary, down to the last minute—is molded into a hilarious, albeit predictable love triangle. However, in collaboration with Fielding, the writers’ increased prominence of Daniel and Darcy (even giving them a clumsy, yet satisfying fist-fight) is given at the expense of the Bridget’s quirky friends and family. First time...
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