Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Beeban Kidron
Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD26719D
ISBN: 1417034564
UPC: 025192671920
EAN: 9781417034567
ASIN: B00005JNDZ
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 2004
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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NOT THAT BRIDGET'S COUNTING BUT IT'S BEEN 6 WONDERFUL WEEKS, 4FABULOUS DAYS AND 7 PRECIOUS HOURS WITH 1 FLAWLESS BOYFRIEND, MARK DARCY. BUT WHEN MISCHEVIOUS AND DEVILISHLY CHARMING DANIEL CLEAVER ARRIVES ONT EH SCENE CLAIMING TO BE A REFORMED MAN, CAN BRIDGET FIND A WAY TO MAKE TRUE LOVE LAST FOREVER?
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Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from the law office? Will the reappearance of dashing cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) further spell the end of her self-confidence when they're shoved off to Thailand together for a TV travel story? If such questions also seem pressing to you, this sequel will be fairly painless, but you shouldn't expect anything fresh. Director Beeban Kidron and her screenwriters--all four of them!--are content to sink matters into slapstick, with chunky Zellweger (who's unflatteringly photographed) the literal butt of all jokes. Though the star still has her charms, and some of Bridget's social gaffes are amusing, the film is mired in low comedy--a sequence in a Thai women's prison is more offensive than outrageous--with only Grant's rakish mischief to pull it out of the swamp. --Steve Wiecking
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 SOUND January 30, 2010
Georgia Moore
The sound quality was pretty bad. Don't know if it had something to do with it being widescreen or that I watched it on my laptop.
 Bridget Jones-The Edge of Reason(Widescreen Edition) January 30, 2010
Veeham (Alabama)
The product as well as the service of the provider was excellent. The product was as it was described and I give this seller 5 stars. I will buy again from this seller without a doubt.
 A Delightful Movie. January 23, 2010
Jae (Wonderland USA)
Got me laughing throughout. Hugh Grant is hot as always, and the soundtrack is wonderful.
good movie, nasty December 24, 2009
Jerry Blankenship
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
why they have to take a great movie like this and stick such nasty in it I will never understand.....makes me sick, I am giving it away...it has F word all over it.....why, good movie but this to much for me......
 Bridget Jones and the Maximizing of Profit November 20, 2009
Scott Schiefelbein (Portland, Oregon United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The original "Bridget Jones Diary" is one of my favorite recent comedies . . . I can say that even though I'm a guy. Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant led a stellar ensemble cast that was as committed to pitch-perfect little moments as it was to broad laughs and big romantic scenes. All in all, the original "BJD" is right up there with the most charming of English comedies.
But you know what happens with Hollywood and good ideas - if there's a nickel to be made, then nothing is sacred.
Somehow Zellweger, Firth and Grant let their "people" talk them into making this absolutely soulless shell of a sequel. On the Sequel Scale, with "Godfather II" at the top with an easy 10 and "Caddyshack 2" a zero, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" rates about a 1.5. The concept is stupid - Bridget is still dizzily in love with Darcy (Firth), and he does nothing at all wrong except be just too darn perfect for words. But we must contrive some conflict, so Bridget concocts stupid sins on his part that even she realizes are stupid, but they are sufficient to create some distance between the two.
Look, in romantic comedies we expect a certain amount of cliche and coincidence - it comes with the territory. But this sequel just isn't true to Bridget. She learned in the first movie that Darcy really loved her, and she is a smart enough girl that she would never do the idiotic things she does in this movie. That's one of her most endearing qualities - Bridget is smarter than the thin people in her world realize. Stupid Bridget just ain't that interesting.
In this closed universe of profiteering, the filmmakers are so completely bereft of ideas that no sooner has Darcy left the stage in a semi-huff that Hugh Grant oozes back into Bridget's life, looking for a return to Bridget's arms. This makes absolutely no sense - here's Grant (it makes no sense to refer to his name - he's playing Hugh Grant), jet-setting around the world for a fun TV show, apparently still sleeping with supermodels, and yet his number one goal seems to be to seduce Bridget. Whaaaa? If Grant's purpose was to get revenge on Darcy, then perhaps the movie might have been funny. Not even Hugh Grant's charm can make this ridiculous character work.
We also get lots of contrived scenes demonstrating how the lovable Bridget gets herself into trouble. When Bridget thinks she's pregnant, not only are the filmmakers content to fall back on the old "Let's watch the terrible skier fly down the mountain at top speed, leaving a trail of destruction while narrowly escaping death and screaming 'Whoooo!'," but they have her glide into a pharmacy (yes, a pharmacy) at the bottom of the slope (pretty prime real estate for a pharmacy), where she requests a birth control test, only to realize that she is in the one store in a German tourist town where nobody speaks English. Hardy har nope. There's more exercise of similar "wit," including most tastelessly some completely shameless scenes in a Thai women's prison, where the filmmakers think the prisoners can be made to forget their cares and woes with a little Madonna sing-a-long and some lingerie. Nice.
Save your money - do not buy this film. At best, this movie should be seen by potential filmmakers and storytellers as a cautionary tale of the bad things that can happen to a great idea.
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