Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
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The central 30-something working gal, still a singleton, is now at the brink of middle age. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But when a certain male critic viewed the trailer, he took offense that the adorably effervescent star of the franchise, Renée Zellweger, had the temerity to look like someone who is in her 40s.
Sep 16, 2016 · Director Sharon Maguire's romantic comedy Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) is pretty uneven. The dramatic segments don't work this time unless it's specifically a scene with Colin Firth.
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By Leigh Singer
Updated: Sep 13, 2016 12:55 pm
Posted: Sep 13, 2016 10:27 am
Let’s be honest: you probably already know how you feel about a third film on Bridget Jones, writer Helen Fielding’s 1990s newspaper column sensation about a klutzy, lovelorn Londoner that became a 2001 smash hit and made an Oscar-nominated star out of Texas’s own Renée Zellweger. The love triangle plot, comic pratfalls, cheeky sexual banter, chocolate box depiction of London and its surrounding countryside, relentless karaoke jukebox soundtrack… they’re all back in spades. You can’t get less gritty or working class than a fluffy Working Title (UK producers of Notting Hill, Love, Actually, etc) romcom, but that’s hardly the point. This is escapism, pure and simple. Whether you gratefully escape to or from it, is largely pre-determined.
That said, it still leaves a large curve to grade on. The first film, Bridget Jones’s Diary, was sparky and pacy, carried along on its central trio’s (Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant) crack comic timing. 2004’s follow-up, The Edge of Reason, though, was one of the worst sequels ever made, so forced and tone-deaf (that Thai prison singalong still induces shudders) that even its stars couldn’t save it. The good news here is that Baby has its original parent’s eyes. Colin Firth plays Bridget's former beau.The return of Diary director (and inspiration for Bridget’s pal Shazzer) Sharon Maguire has delivered a threequel far funnier and better made than it probably needed to be. Some of the set-pieces – a shambolic TV studio interview, an Italian restaurant confession – are shot and edited with real zip, something the current trend for shaggy, improv-driven comedy often can’t be bothered with. There’s a brief scene where Patrick Dempsey’s dating guru gets rebuffed, and the blue light flickering over his face from a passing train demonstrates real thought given to the visual storytelling. You’d think such care would be normal mainstream practice. You’d be wrong.
These unexpected touches are even more welcome given the overall focus-group-polled nature of the story. Now 43 and still single, Bridget’s two hook-ups within a week – one with a mysterious American (Dempsey) at a music festival, the other with old flame Mark Darcy (Firth, agreeably stiffer than ever) at a country christening – leave our heroine as a “geriatric” mother-to-be and no idea who’s the daddy. What’s interesting is how this set-up differs from Fielding’s third novel, 2013’s Mad About the Boy – namely, it’s a completely parallel universe.
On its own fluffy, feelgood terms, Bridget Jones’s Baby is a big improvement on the last film and a welcome return to an older, occasionally wiser modern screen heroine. At times it’s horribly clunky but is regularly saved by well-crafted comedy filmmaking and a winning cast of actors, anchored again by Renée Zellweger’s confident star turn.
Bridget Jones's Baby is a hilariously satisfying revisit to franchise that pays equal parts homage and parody to the rom com genre. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 9, 2019
Sep 14, 2016 · Directed by Sharon Maguire. Comedy, Romance. R. 1h 58m. By Stephen Holden. Sept. 14, 2016. Who could dislike Bridget Jones, the zany screwball heroine whose latest and probably last screen...
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Sep 5, 2016 · Hapless London-based media type Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) returns to the big screen after a 12-year break to battle unexpected pregnancy, twentysomething hipsters and, once more, the...
Sep 16, 2016 · Bridget Jones's Baby: Directed by Sharon Maguire. With Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips. Forty-something and single again, Bridget decides to focus on her job and surround herself with friends.
