Saturday 24 September 2022 10:20 PM Archived British Board of Film Classification critics once savaged the 'vapid' ... trends now
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Her barrister boyfriend described her as a 'verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother'.
Now it appears film examiners were equally dismissive of Bridget Jones, deriding the 2001 smash-hit film about the eponymous diarist as 'vapid'. Files from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) archive reveal some members pilloried the tale of a 30-something heroine (Renee Zellweger) and her romantic feelings for womaniser Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and eventual love, barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).
They criticised Helen Fielding's hit novel as well as the film, co-written with Richard Curtis, which took £250million at the global box office.
Prior to the general release of Bridget Jones's Diary, one unidentified examiner wrote: 'Vapid, picaresque nonsense centring on the travails of bourgeois thirtysomethings. Lazy and self-indulgent novel transformed into a lazy and self-indulgent film…
Files from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) reveal some members pilloried the smash 2001-hit Bridge Jones' Diary
The 2001 film was based on the bestseller Bridget Jones diary by Helen Fielding. Examiners, who helped give the movie its age 15 rating, also had no time for the characterisation in the film, which was well
