Bridget Jones’s Diary DVD box set: a healing classic comedy

As a huge fan of the books, I had incredibly high expectations of the movie. And now I watch the movie DVD box set with my partner at leisure time. Needless to say, `Bridget Jones's Diary' the movie worked very, very well.

Renee Zellweger is absolutely perfect as Bridget Jones. She has always been one of my favorite actresses and here, she totally displays Bridget's pathetic cuteness. Zellweger gained weight for this role, too, so she looks adorably plump. It's very, very hard to not fall in love with her the moment you see her at her family's Christmas party or drinking alone at home or listening to sad, Celine Dion music. (You have a heart of stone if you aren't moved to laughs or tears or pity for her.) I can't imagine anyone else playing Bridget Jones. Zellweger fits the role because she is very much normal and approachable.

The quality of the rest of the cast is also perfect. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth assume their roles as Bridget's potential suitors with a great deal of panache and hilarity. Grant, stuck with hair that will give him forever the look of a dandy highwayman, breaks away from his bumbling nervy Englishman style to play Daniel Cleaver, the serial shagger who runs the publishing house where Bridget works as a PR assistant. Cleaver is the kind of guy who walks into a room and assumes that every woman wants to take him to bed, and unfortunately for his ego his assumption proves to be correct. Bridget is putty in his hands and his wooing of her is one of the film's comedic high points.

In short, Bridget Jones's Diary DVD box set is a healing classic comedy at its best. Go see it.