cad v. the stiff, The

Spectator, The, Apr 21, 2001 by Steyn, Mark

What's left feels like a join-the-dots series of familiar incidents - the outside broadcast that goes wrong, the embarrassing speech, at which the embarrassment we feel for Miss Zellweger is that the embarrassment seems forced. The film, though, will earn a small footnote in history as the first heterosexual romance with post-analcoital banter.

`Daniel,' says Bridget, `that thing you just did is actually illegal in several countries.' "That is the major reason,' says Daniel, `I'm so thrilled to be living in Britain today.' I'm told there's no sodomy in the book, and we must be grateful for innovation where we find it. Miss Zellweger's bottom has dropped in, even as everything else in Bridget's world has dropped out. Purists may be furious, but, like Bridge with Daniel, they should turn the other cheek.