Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Widescreen Edition)

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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

Average customer rating: Excellent, excellent, and more excellent Great Movie "The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge" could watch it over and over again Unworthy Follow-Up

Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Widescreen Edition) Starring: Christopher Adamson , Jim Broadbent , David Cann , Neil Dudgeon , and James Faulkner Director: Beeban Kidron Manufacturer: Universal Studios ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video Opposites Attract | By Theme | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video Hugh Grant | Comedy Stars | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video General | British Cinema | By Country | Art House & International | Genres | DVD | Video Adamson, Christopher | ( A ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Broadbent, Jim | ( B ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Dudgeon, Neil | ( D ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Faulkner, James | ( F ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Firth, Colin | ( F ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Grant, Hugh | ( G ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Imrie, Celia | ( I ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Jones, Gemma | ( J ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video McNeice, Ian | ( M ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Tandy, Mark | ( T ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Kidron, Beeban | ( K ) | Directors | Stores | DVD | Video All Universal Studios Titles | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Comedy | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video DVDs Under $10 | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video General | British Cinema | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video Comedy | By Theme | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video DVDs Under $7.49 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video ( B ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video Similar Items: Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition) Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) Notting Hill (Collector's Edition) Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996) Pride & Prejudice ASIN: B00005JNDZ Release Date: 2005-03-22

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Customer Reviews:

Excellent, excellent, and more excellent.......2007-06-27

Great Movie.......2007-06-05

"The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge".......2007-04-13

could watch it over and over again.......2007-03-24

Unworthy Follow-Up.......2007-03-18

Average customer rating: DVD's that don't play on Australian players I like it! Funny and Romantic

The Romantic Favorites Collection (Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason / About a Boy / Love Actually / Notting Hill) Starring: The Romantic Favorites Collection (Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason / About a Boy / Love Actually / Notting Hill) Manufacturer: Universal Studios ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video General | Drama | Genres | DVD | Video ( R ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video Comedy | Boxed Sets | Stores | DVD | Video Drama | Boxed Sets | Stores | DVD | Video All Universal Studios Titles | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Comedy | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Drama | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Boxed Sets | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Similar Items: Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition) Four Weddings and a Funeral Two Weeks Notice (Widescreen Edition) Sleepless in Seattle (10th Anniversary Edition) Music and Lyrics (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B000JBXY0S Release Date: 2007-01-09

Customer Reviews:

DVD's that don't play on Australian players.......2007-04-08

I like it!.......2007-03-11

Funny and Romantic.......2007-02-14

Average customer rating: Excellent, excellent, and more excellent Great Movie "The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge" could watch it over and over again Unworthy Follow-Up

Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Full Screen Edition) Starring: Christopher Adamson , Jim Broadbent , David Cann , Neil Dudgeon , and James Faulkner Director: Beeban Kidron Manufacturer: Universal Studios ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video Opposites Attract | By Theme | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video Hugh Grant | Comedy Stars | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video General | British Cinema | By Country | Art House & International | Genres | DVD | Video Adamson, Christopher | ( A ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Broadbent, Jim | ( B ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Dudgeon, Neil | ( D ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Faulkner, James | ( F ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Firth, Colin | ( F ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Grant, Hugh | ( G ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Imrie, Celia | ( I ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Jones, Gemma | ( J ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video McNeice, Ian | ( M ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Tandy, Mark | ( T ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video Kidron, Beeban | ( K ) | Directors | Stores | DVD | Video All Universal Studios Titles | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video Comedy | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video DVDs Under $10 | Universal Studios Home Entertainment | Studio Specials | Stores | DVD | Video General | British Cinema | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video Comedy | By Theme | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video ( B ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video Similar Items: Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition) Love Actually (Widescreen Edition) Notting Hill (Collector's Edition) Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996) Pride & Prejudice ASIN: B00070QXL8 Release Date: 2005-03-22

Product Description

Running Time 107 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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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

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, excellent, and more excellent.......2007-06-27

The movie arrived on time, there were no scratches, I definitely got more than my money's worth, especially since I got this at such a good low price, AND I absolutely LOVE this movie, so everything was just EXCELLENT!

Great Movie.......2007-06-05

What can I say? If you liked the first one, you'll love this one! This movie exceeded my expectations. Still haven't convinced my boyfriend to watch it with me, even though it's funny as s**t.

"The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge".......2007-04-13

What happened? Everything that was great about the first movie went terribly wrong in this one. The first Bridget Jones film was centered on Bridget and Mark Darcy "finding" each other, sorting out their misconceptions, and ultimately falling in love. It is a modern re-telling of the core plot of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Girl meets guy at party, guy makes disparaging remark to girl, girl spends majority of film (and miniseries) disliking guy, is briefly deceived by villain (Daniel Cleaver, or in the case of P&P, Mr. Wickham), and eventually realizes guy is truly her perfect match. And to top it all off, girl and guy share passionate kiss at the end of the film (and the miniseries). Great formula, right? And then came the second movie...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is supposed to depict the aftermath, or the "happily ever after" that in this case turns out not to go so "happily." Bridget and Mark Darcy have already been together for a while at the start of the film, but all of the chemistry that they had in the first film is completely gone. They seem almost estranged. Mark Darcy is just as icy as he was in the first film, only now that he's got the girl, there's no excuse for it. It just makes him seem closed off. Bridget is even more insecure than she was in the first film and gets into even more scrapes, only they don't seem as funny this time around. Instead of making her feel more secure, her relationship with Mark Darcy appears to have had the opposite effect. She comes off more as a train wreck than as a delightfully accident prone single girl. Even in their more intimate moments, they don't really seem like a couple (the ski slope scene in which Bridget realizes that she might be pregnant due to "all the weeks of uninterrupted sex they've had" begs the question, "When, exactly?"). I watched the film thinking, "How did these two get together?"

And then there's the plot. Gone are the hilarious conversations between Bridget and her friends in the pub, and gone is the subplot involving Bridget's parents. The parents are hardly featured in this film, and the friends only sporadically. Instead, we have Shazzer, Jed, cocaine, Thailand, way too much on-screen time with Daniel Cleaver, and a beautiful young lawyer who turns out to be a lesbian in love with Bridget. Huh? It's like one of those films where they just throw everything in together and take whatever emerges from the mess. To make it even worse, the mood of the film is inconsistent. It starts off attempting to be funny, then gets very dark after Bridget is imprisoned in Thailand on drug charges. All of a sudden we've gone from comedy to drama, then back to comedy after she is released. The film is a roller coaster, and in more ways than one.

Overall, it is simply a bad sequel, as so many other sequels have been before it. Stick to the first movie. At least you'll still have the "promise" that something great will happen.

could watch it over and over again.......2007-03-24

This movie is good but would like to have the alternative scenes put in to make the movie a little darker. It would make the ending that much more sweeter.

Unworthy Follow-Up.......2007-03-18

The neuroses and insecurities displayed by the Bridget Jones character were charming when she was lonely and single in the first movie. Now that she is involved in a loving relationship, these same characteristics make her seem controlling, desperate, and sad. It is much harder to like Bridget in this movie or to feel sympathy for or identify with her.

And her one-dimensional friends from the first movie are downright annoying in this sequel. They seem to exist solely to focus their attention on Bridget, and they prove over and over again in this film that they don't even have her best interests at heart.

If you were a fan of the first, you may want to steer clear of this one. Or at least go in with tempered expectations.

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Average customer rating: Excellent, excellent, and more excellent Great Movie "The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge" could watch it over and over again Unworthy Follow-Up

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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

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, excellent, and more excellent.......2007-06-27

The movie arrived on time, there were no scratches, I definitely got more than my money's worth, especially since I got this at such a good low price, AND I absolutely LOVE this movie, so everything was just EXCELLENT!

Great Movie.......2007-06-05

What can I say? If you liked the first one, you'll love this one! This movie exceeded my expectations. Still haven't convinced my boyfriend to watch it with me, even though it's funny as s**t.

"The Edge" Is Right, More Like "Way Over The Edge".......2007-04-13

What happened? Everything that was great about the first movie went terribly wrong in this one. The first Bridget Jones film was centered on Bridget and Mark Darcy "finding" each other, sorting out their misconceptions, and ultimately falling in love. It is a modern re-telling of the core plot of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Girl meets guy at party, guy makes disparaging remark to girl, girl spends majority of film (and miniseries) disliking guy, is briefly deceived by villain (Daniel Cleaver, or in the case of P&P, Mr. Wickham), and eventually realizes guy is truly her perfect match. And to top it all off, girl and guy share passionate kiss at the end of the film (and the miniseries). Great formula, right? And then came the second movie...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is supposed to depict the aftermath, or the "happily ever after" that in this case turns out not to go so "happily." Bridget and Mark Darcy have already been together for a while at the start of the film, but all of the chemistry that they had in the first film is completely gone. They seem almost estranged. Mark Darcy is just as icy as he was in the first film, only now that he's got the girl, there's no excuse for it. It just makes him seem closed off. Bridget is even more insecure than she was in the first film and gets into even more scrapes, only they don't seem as funny this time around. Instead of making her feel more secure, her relationship with Mark Darcy appears to have had the opposite effect. She comes off more as a train wreck than as a delightfully accident prone single girl. Even in their more intimate moments, they don't really seem like a couple (the ski slope scene in which Bridget realizes that she might be pregnant due to "all the weeks of uninterrupted sex they've had" begs the question, "When, exactly?"). I watched the film thinking, "How did these two get together?"

And then there's the plot. Gone are the hilarious conversations between Bridget and her friends in the pub, and gone is the subplot involving Bridget's parents. The parents are hardly featured in this film, and the friends only sporadically. Instead, we have Shazzer, Jed, cocaine, Thailand, way too much on-screen time with Daniel Cleaver, and a beautiful young lawyer who turns out to be a lesbian in love with Bridget. Huh? It's like one of those films where they just throw everything in together and take whatever emerges from the mess. To make it even worse, the mood of the film is inconsistent. It starts off attempting to be funny, then gets very dark after Bridget is imprisoned in Thailand on drug charges. All of a sudden we've gone from comedy to drama, then back to comedy after she is released. The film is a roller coaster, and in more ways than one.

Overall, it is simply a bad sequel, as so many other sequels have been before it. Stick to the first movie. At least you'll still have the "promise" that something great will happen.

could watch it over and over again.......2007-03-24

This movie is good but would like to have the alternative scenes put in to make the movie a little darker. It would make the ending that much more sweeter.

Unworthy Follow-Up.......2007-03-18

The neuroses and insecurities displayed by the Bridget Jones character were charming when she was lonely and single in the first movie. Now that she is involved in a loving relationship, these same characteristics make her seem controlling, desperate, and sad. It is much harder to like Bridget in this movie or to feel sympathy for or identify with her.

And her one-dimensional friends from the first movie are downright annoying in this sequel. They seem to exist solely to focus their attention on Bridget, and they prove over and over again in this film that they don't even have her best interests at heart.

If you were a fan of the first, you may want to steer clear of this one. Or at least go in with tempered expectations.

Average customer rating:

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Bridget Jones The Edge Of Reason & Meet The Fockers - 2 Seperate Romantic Comedy DVDs in Set Bridget Jones The Edge Of Reason - Romantic Comedy- Everyone's favorite witty heroine is back in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Not that Bridget (Rene Zellweger) is counting, but it s been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven precious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever? It s the absolutely hilarious (Jim Ferguson, ABC-TV) romantic comedy that proves there s nothing like love to send you over the edge! Many Bonus Features! Rated R. Meet The Fockers - Romantic Comedy- After being given permission to marry the daughter of a retired CIA agent, Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) a male Nurse, his fiancee Pam (Teri Polo), and her parents (Robert DeNiro & Blythe Danner) travel to Miami, Florida to meet his quirky liberal parents, Roz and Bernie Focker (Dustin Hoffman & Barbra Streisand). The film features a new character, Little Jack, who is Pam's nephew, and Jack and Dina's grandchild. Jack tries to nurture his namesake grandchild. Many Bonus Features! Rated PG-13

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