Renee Zellweger 'returning as Bridget Jones for fourth film on tackling motherhood'
some good Bridget Jones fun
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) comes to terms with her 43rd birthday and her permanent childless single status. Bridget attends Daniel Cleaver'due south funeral after his disappearance. Surprisingly, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) shows upward with his wife. Everybody is married with children, even the gays. Bridget is dragged to a music festival by all-time friend Miranda (Sarah Solemani). She sleeps with Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), the first guy she meets, who turns out to be an internet dating billionaire. Later at a christening, she hooks up with boyfriend godparent Mark Darcy who claims to be getting a divorce. She has a surprise pregnancy and the father could be either man.
This has plenty of unmarried Bridget Jones fun. I'm glad that Zellweger gave up getting bigger to do a bunch of fatty jokes. It's not breaking any new grounds only it is fun for fans. Emma Thompson has fun existence the physician. It's a comedy and I laughed a couple of times.
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Not that much of an improvement
'Bridget Jones's Diary' was an immensely enjoyable film. It had a lot going for it, and succeeded on nigh every level. It didn't cover much new ground and didn't intermission any conventions, but it was warm, mannerly, hugely funny and sometimes poignant, with a great cast. 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' was notwithstanding a big pace downwards, despite being adeptly played information technology lost a lot of what made 'Bridget Jones's' Diary and so practiced.
Heard a lot of different opinions on 'Bridget Jones's' Baby. Some people said that it was a render to grade and a huge improvement over 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'. Others said that it was worse and had no betoken to information technology. Having seen information technology myself, initially worried but really wanting to like it and approximate it as mindless entertainment, to me information technology was an comeback but non by much. Not a return to class and nowhere almost as proficient as 'Bridget Jones's Diary'. There are things that are done better hither, but there are also the same mistakes and also a few different ones.
It has its adept points certainly. 'Bridget Jones's Infant' looks good, being mostly attractive visually in a film that doesn't crave epic sweeping cinematography or opulence while still existence beautifully shot and with striking locations.
Once again, like the previous two films, 'Bridget Jones's' Baby' is adeptly played. Renee Zellwegger, whose Bridget is nowhere near as much a parody or the butt of the joke like in 'Edge of Reason', overdoes it in the facial expressions (on a side note, and no shallowness intended, the Botox does not aid), but really attempts and succeeds at bringing out the bully qualities of her acting in the previous ii films, trying to bring out the funny, adorably awkward and sympathetic sides of her graphic symbol when the textile allows it and her accent more than than game.
Colin Firth is sophisticated, understated and charmingly stoic. Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent seem incapable of giving bad performances, though they did deserve more to practice, while Sarah Solemani brings an enjoyable corporeality of sauciness. The casting highlight nonetheless is Emma Thompson, who is a hoot and is a breath of fresh air with the funniest material. On that note, there are more amusing moments here than at that place were in 'Edge of Reason', Thompson's textile more often than not but besides the reason for Hugh Grant's absenteeism and Ed Sheeran. The soundtrack is more appealing this time round with better choice of songs.
For all those good things, the story is even more contrived and anticipated than 'Edge of Reason', and, apart from a few good moments, also much of the writing and gags are tired, recycled and fifty-fifty more than stale, freshness was sorely lacking hither. The romantic elements are lacking in eye and warmth and, despite a subject that then many people would relate to, 'Bridget Jones's Baby' does little with the subject and offers nothing illuminating.
Some of the subplots are foreign and awfully used, especially the one dealing with the punk rock, which didn't seem to fit. Patrick Dempsey is a insufficiently adequately weak and mediocre at all-time substitute for the much missed Hugh Grant (who excelled and so well at playing confronting blazon previously), having much less of his charm and charisma and instead coming off as both bland and annoying.
While the songs themselves are good, the placement for some isn't, with some misplaced randomness going on. Sharon Maguire'due south direction is more competent here but is still uninspired, while at that place is some amateurish editing and obvious, cheap use of greenish screen.
Overall, non awful but a disappointment and should have been and then much better. Instead of laughing consistently, beingness touched or oohing and ahhing, establish myself questioning 'Bridget Jones's Infant'due south' necessity and thinking "so what?". 5/10 Bethany Cox
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Bridget Jones herself is an overgrown child!
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People who remember 'use-by-dates' on condoms don't mean anything are why we have a population problem!
In the past, it was easy enough to cheer for Bridget, considering she was positioned every bit the 'plucky underdog' - but I don't ever retrieve her beingness equally dumb every bit in her first visit to the doctor's office... If you're 43 and you don't understand the finer points of formulation (or how foetal booze syndrome works, for that matter), y'all're less of an underdog, and more of a simpleton! No wonder the biggest comedic weapon that Emma Thompson employs hither is to coil her eyes... she's mirroring what the reaction of every right-thinking audience member should be.
Information technology's strange when Richard Curtis writes Bridget better for the screen than her own creator does!
Having said all of this in criticism, if you treasure Bridget Jones as a graphic symbol, and so I don't call back whatever of this will carp you. She has to work harder to win my sympathy, though, and this fourth dimension - in contrast to the previous two films - she didn't get much of it.
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Funny, but too long and very hard to relate to
I am not sure what to brand of Bridget Jones's Babe.
On the one hand, it has undeniably funny moments. On the other hand, many of the gags fall flat. This didn't terminate many others in the theater from laughing their heads of, but information technology did leave me wondering what I was missing that fabricated information technology so funny.
And considering that I'm nigh in the right demographic for this flick (almost, considering I'm male), I establish the characters very hard to relate to. I'd say both the characters and the portrayals are to arraign. Zellweger does a good chore, but that's piece of cake. Colin Firth is the quintessential Mr.Darcy, but this is also the problem, because by now his Marking is boring to expiry. We know what Marking is like, and information technology would be neat to meet him do something, annihilation, likewise being Mr.Darcy. But he never does. Patrick Dempsey'southward portrayal of Jack was simply lackluster. Information technology was a office that someone like George Clooney would've probably nailed, but Dempsey was really struggling to look and human action the part. At times he looked similar he really really didn't want to be there. Sloppy script doesn't aid either - at times I really struggled to sympathize why his graphic symbol would exist there at all. On the bright side, Emma Thompson is a standout - she manages the steal every scene she'southward in, and adds the wit and the sarcasm that BJB is and so desperately lacking.
Finally, the movie is as well long. The gags are overdrawn, punchlines are spoon-fed, and the story just drags on and on. Time and time again I almost institute myself screaming at the screen "fine, I go information technology, move on!"
Anyhow, 6/10 for the laughs. And please don't make another 1.
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Surprisingly Funny and Precipitous
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"Bridget Jones' Baby" is a surprisingly funny, smart, adorable romantic one-act. Yes, really.
When I heard that at that place was going to be another Bridget Jones moving picture I thought, wow, that is going to exist the worst film of the twelvemonth. The previous ii Bridget Jones movies combined comedic and romantic highpoints and low points.
In the outset film, "Bridget Jones' Diary," there is the legendary "I similar you simply as you are" staircase scene, where the impeccable and quite maybe inhumanly perfect Colin Firth (as Mark Darcy) walks down a staircase that showcases his luscious long legs and tells plump, goofy, perpetually self-sabotaging Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) that he likes her but as she is.
If yous've never seen the moving-picture show, you can watch that scene – over and over – on youtube, where fans have posted multiple copies of it, and watched and re-watched it hundreds of thousands of times. How to find it? Just start typing "I like yous just equally…" and Google volition finish the sentence for yous. There'south as well a scene where Marker Darcy cooks dinner with Bridget Jones. If I die watching that scene, I will dice happy.
The Bridget Jones movies also include hysterically funny fistfights betwixt Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as the 2 men vying for Bridget's affections.
Only for all their perfect moments, the Bridget Jones movies too included blench-worthy, masochist, misogynist scenes where Bridget is made out to exist the barrel of highly humiliating jokes.
And "Bridget Jones Diary" was released *fifteen years agone.* Renee Zellweger was already in her thirties. Part of the signal of the film was that she was a spinster who had non plant a man and was desperate to do and then. Fifteen years later, Renee Zellweger is 47, subject of a tsunami of articles and net posts arguing that she has committed the unforgivable sin, in a woman, of aging. She is besides damn old, fanboys and girls stamp and shout. She should exist retired to a remote, cloistral nunnery; if she must venture out, it is only with a bag firmly affixed over her old-lady face.
Zellweger had plastic surgery and it ruined her, some allege. Others are enraged that she didn't have plenty plastic surgery. Everyone is set up with pitchforks and torches to burn the lady for surviving past age 25.
And, finally, a romantic comedy about a adult female in her forties who gets pregnant and does not know who the father is? Yuck.
In spite of all my misgivings, I went to the theater anyway, and "Bridget Jones' Infant" speedily eliminated all my resistance. I laughed out loud throughout this pic, and I can't remember the terminal time I laughed then much during a first run Hollywood comedy. In "Bridget Jones' Infant," the emphasis is much more on comedy than it is on romance. Everything is played for laughs. The jokes are wide, depression-brow, and slapstick. Don't expect sophisticated wit. Think nekkid bums and b00bs.
Bridget Jones is a Tv producer. She is single. She and Mark made a go of it, but separated. He is now married to someone else. Bridget has a couple of one-night stands and relies on outdated, ecologically friendly prophylactics. Emma Thompson is her gynecologist. Go run across this movie for Thompson's performance alone. If you lot don't laugh at her, I don't want to know you.
Patrick Dempsey is the other potential begetter. During every scene he's in, all I could recall was, did his mother dip him in a magical river shortly later he was born? Dempsey is so obscenely handsome. He also comes across every bit beingness such a nice guy. He'southward just pure pleasure. His fireplace-warm and crackly good sense of humour keeps the potentially awkward plot bouncing along, never getting besides serious or painful.
I really think it'due south a human rights abuse that non every woman is issued her very own Colin Firth. He is arguably the perfect man. He may be the last living actor who tin convincingly play a gentleman. Once again, the flick is played for laughs, just there is one scene that is heartbreakingly real. Firth is informed that Bridget is pregnant. He is and so overwhelmed with emotion that he must leave the room. Information technology'south a small moment, but a poignant one, amidst the residuum of the bedroom farce.
Renee Zellweger has aged, as have nosotros all. But she's great. She inhabits Bridget, and steals our hearts.
The balance of the bandage includes Bridget's funny, wacky mom, who is involved in an election meant to mirror current politics. Those brief scenes are every bit funny as the remainder of the moving-picture show. Bridget's gang of friends are onhand, and seeing them feels as proficient as a reunion with your own old gang with whom you raised heck when you were immature. Equally for the Hugh Grant character … go see the film. I don't want to spoil information technology for you.
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Light Romantic One-act that works
First of all, this is non supposed to be a heavy, meaningful, deep film. People are judging it on what it is not supposed to be. It is low-cal, funny, romantic and the proper noun Darcy hints on what it is more about. Information technology is almost love and finally getting with the person you are meant to be with. Information technology is a modern day Jane Austin story of dear and tanglements. The actors are lovely and their characters are credible and sweet. My usual genre is criminal offense and so for me to enjoy something as light as this it has to be practiced. If you like these actors and experience like something romantic and low-cal so you volition enjoy this film. If you want to approximate it by a criteria that it is non pretending to exist so you will be disappointed. It entertains as a romance and comedy. Zero heavy or earth shattering but it is a expert motion picture.
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Couldn't Even Finish It
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The showtime Bridget Jones was a cultural event, i of the movies that defined the times it was released in. The second one was uneven, just had its moments. With this installment, I simply didn't care about anything that happened. They lost my interest from the opening moments past having Bridget in the exact aforementioned situation we see her in the starting time of the starting time movie. I would have liked this story to cover some new ground, because I practise similar the graphic symbol. Unfortunately, information technology'southward just another ninety minutes of keeping Mark Darcy just out of reach until they predictably end upward together for the THIRD time.
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A witty return to course
Like many I was very happy only skeptical when I heard the news of a third entry in the Bridget Jones series. It had been 12 years since the last movie, The Edge of Reason, which deviated severely from its source material in the worst style possible and Helen Fielding had put out an awful third book Bridget Jones: Mad Near the Boy, which seemed to destroy everything I loved well-nigh the serial.
First off: Bridget Jones's Baby is NOT an adaptation of Mad About the Boy, but its own zany cosmos. Second of all it'due south actually surprisingly good. Despite a 12 year gap Renee Zellweger slips into her Bridget persona flawlessly. She'southward able to anchor the film so that it withal feels similar a Bridget Jones film while introducing new characters like Jack Quant, a man Bridget instantly has a spark with at a music festival, and Sarah Solemani equally Bridget's colleague and single friend, Miranda. Sharon Maguire (who directed the showtime Bridget picture show and was the inspiration for Shazzer), returns and seems able to get the best out of her cast.
The flick sees Bridget, at present turning 43, as a successful news producer who is still single and childless. Deciding to embrace her state as a single spinster she goes to a music festival where she meets a handsome man nigh her age, and sleeps with him. A footling while later, when at her godchild'south christening, she runs into Mark Darcy, new divorced from the wife he married afterward they split up, and every bit sparks fly, she sleeps with him too, only to remember in the morning all the reasons they separate upwards equally he never had fourth dimension with her and was always focused on work. Soon after she discovers she's pregnant with the titular baby.
A huge function of the success of the film is down to the script which holds contributions from notorious wit Emma Thompson. It's really quite funny, but also has a lot of character bits so we believe in these characters and their decisions. The explanation for why Bridget and Darcy aren't together feels organic and real. Similarly the movie does a great job of showing who these characters would be 12 years on. Bridget has grown and figures out things in life while even so keeping sense of sense of humor and being a clumsy mess in certain situations. Rather than appearing haughty, Mark comes beyond as painfully shy, a careful man who now has many regrets from all the chances he didn't take.
It's a wonderful, sweetness movie, and a wonderful end to the Bridget Jones series.
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Middle Form Lady has Eye Form Baby (who cares?!) - Embarrassingly Awful
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I like British fabricated cinema or cinema with a strong British contribution, then I accept no pleasure in my poor review. This chick-flick, ROM COM revolves effectually a grouping of characters, without any real depth, who move sluggishly through a predictable and slow plot, this time taking identify several years later on the 2nd instalment. The message here is that a woman is ultimately unhappy unless married, with a infant (to make her life complete), and then Bridget'due south quest continues.
Renee Zellweger returns with her faux British middle class emphasis, this time she'due south jubilant her 43rd altogether, and this time in search of (yous'll never judge) – love, just likewise this fourth dimension with the dilemma of pregnancy to one of two possible fathers.
Bridget's graphic symbol narrates the 'important' points (as normal), and simply to highlight where to express joy.
Colin Firth wheels out the same tiresome very 'proper' English character. The standard awkward atmosphere exists whenever Bridget is less than twenty anxiety from Darcy (YAWN!)
Patrick Dempsey is the (new) American character, who is a guru with a formula for love. Oh - and he's handsome, but to brand him fifty-fifty more handsome he'due south a billionaire to kick. (Actually?!)
In that location's lots of cliché scenes and jokes, some recycled from previous films, the film is very predictable, and I establish irksome. The secondary characters seem very 'tired' now, makes you wonder why they fabricated such nonsense – money?
BEST BITS - Bridget didn't expect either man to take any responsibility for the baby, and she makes that clear. The soundtrack is good, and Ed Shearan is a proficient sport. The endearing message – 'Truthful honey will always detect a way'.
WORST BITS - Ane memorable scene sees Bridget talking to a friend on her mobile while dropping the 'F' bomb several times, there are children in the groundwork listening intently, the next scene shows Bridget arriving tardily at a christening, one of the same children shouts 'where the 'F' have you been?' not clever, not funny – SHOCKING!. Very dated jokes.
SUMMARY- The first film wasn't slap-up simply at least information technology was fresh and charming.
I sincerely hope there isn't a 4th instalment … 'Bridget Jones has withal Another Infant COZ I need the Money!'
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Looks Like It's Over...
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Contains major spoilers. Don't read if y'all haven't yet seen the movie.
Well... I tin't say information technology was a bad picture show, but I even so felt a bit disappointed. Kickoff of all, Bridget no longer looks like Bridget. What happened to "I will e'er be a little flake fat"? Being chubby was the character's trademark. Now that she's skinny, she's a lot less likable (in my stance at least). And what'south with her face? Botox overload?
A lot of the time I noticed that $.25 from other movies were used, specially "Sex and the Metropolis". And, as another reviewer here mentioned, - the excessive product placement is kind of annoying at times.
And, of course, I don't empathise the need for abiding use of the F-word. It is said in every other sentence throughout the movie. They fifty-fifty have a kid say it. Uncalled for.
In guild to take the Jack story seriously, i will accept to suspend disbelief entirely. Exercise you really think that a millionaire celebrity will have unprotected sex with a random not-particularly-attractive forty-something wide? And so hunt her around begging to be her child's father (when he'south non fifty-fifty sure it's his)? And to elevation information technology off, he sticks effectually after she marries Darcy and becomes all-time mates with him. Would something like this happen in real life? I think not.
Plus, what was the point in all of this? We all knew right from the showtime that she was going to end upwards with Mark Darcy whatever the case might have been with the babe.
Another thing that bothered me, was when Bridget asked her father if he thought she belonged on Jerry Springer. It's an American show that isn't broadcast on British television. The Brits accept the Jeremy Kyle show, and so I'm not sure where the Jerry Springer reference came from.
Also, it's just non the aforementioned without Hugh Grant. With two male person protagonists, it gets kind of boring.
The lame ending was probably the about offensive thing about this moving-picture show. How banal. And so, after all, Bridget concludes that the only way for a woman to find fulfilment in life, is to become hitched and punch out a rugrat. Yawn.
The proficient affair is that we get to see a lot of familiar faces, and some of the jokes are actually chuckle-worthy.
And then, like I said, information technology's not a bad movie, but I expected... something different. There's nothing really wrong with it - the cast is good so is the interim, the script is engaging, the dialogue is fine (except for the constant cursing, of course). I guess it just doesn't accept the same "spunk" anymore. It simply feels "tired" and... "over".
Makes yous wonder if they will make some other flick after this. If so, what'southward information technology going to be? "Bridget Jones the desperate housewife" or "Bridget Jones's adventures in the retirement home"?
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A clumsy picture show with no magic.
This series of movies has declined in quality since the first outing. I read an article a while back that said that scripts were more likely to succeed if they include swearing. The script writers appear to have taken this miracle very much to heart and for me there was merely as well much effin & jeffin.
Even without the heavy-handed bad language this sequel lacks the charm and wit of the original and I watched it without ever feeling particularly engaged.
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Loved It!
I absolutely loved Bridget Jones's Baby! I was afraid that after all this time, the humor of the previous films (peculiarly the beginning 1) would be lost. I was very pleasantly surprised! My married man, who never cared for romantic comedies, actually watched the entire picture show and laughed almost of the fashion through. It is peachy to see Bridget at a later stage of her life. ( equally well every bit the other characters... Mark Darcy,Jade, etc.) I would highly recommend it to whatever "true" Bridget fan. I also agree with some others that Emma Thompson was a great addition to the cast. I just bought the DVD and have already watched information technology again. It is great to see a sequel and not be disappointed!
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For the fans, if they'll have it
Why did I watch this? I tin can't say I was ever a fan, I never read the books, only I have seen the original picture show many times. I re-watched it non long ago, and had to admit it had worn out for me, but that's probably my own fault. It's non meant to be seen every vacation season. Yet, information technology has very good timing and information technology's bloodshot. Bridget Jones' Infant doesn't and isn't. It'due south dragging and it would brand absolutely no sense to anyone not familiar with the first ones. The millennial characters are unfunny and implausible, the writing there is both patronizing and eager to delight, similar me post-obit my friend'due south teenage son on Instagram and commenting YOLO. Pussy Riot and cats that look like Hitler... and the next minute jokes near human rights violations... So, I really watched for the feel of a forty+ pregnant woman, of whatever glimpses of successfully acted emotions. And for Colin Firth, and possibly Emma Thompson, although I call back I'd now like to forget she has screenplay credit in this. Merely nonetheless, what happened? Was everyone an amateur? Information technology was similar the characters from earlier films were all doing cameos. Renee Zellweger was playing herself playing her character 12 years later. No, she was standing in for herself in that function. Her voice was oft barely aural, like she was really, really tired.
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'Is you is or is you own't my infant?'
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A situation familiar to Mr C Firth from the equally turgid 'Mamma Mia' of blessed memory(comparatively speaking). Is he the father of Ms Jones'due south brat?Frankly do we give a damn? The usual appalling cliches and ham acting with Mr J.Broadbent looking suitably ashamed at dishing out so much sometime rope. Lots of swearing from Miss Zellweger and her potty - mouthed chums which doesn't corporeality to a hill of beans. I ask myself how much longer this franchise can limp along and I am non confident of a good outcome in this regard. Past the time Bridget Jones'south infant gets to Cambridge(naturally),it's mother will be drawing her enhanced alimony and nonetheless making moo-cow - eyes at Hugh Grant. You tin take that to the bank.
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This is a two-man job!
Unlike the commencement 2 films, this was not based on the book. Instead, it is an original screenplay that fills the gap betwixt the second and the tertiary book. And so reading the third book before watching this film is a spoiler. Nigh importantly the fourth motion picture is on, simply officially have to be appear.
The original director returned to this, merely I capeesh the story and the screenplay and people behind it. I did not think this sequel would piece of work, but it exceeded my expectation. A simple story and very familiar settings, but adult so well. There's no Bridget's diary in this, instead an iPad.
Renee Zellweger was totally unrecognisable. Actually, I said that in my 'The Whole Truth' review. Just she was good to render as Bridget. Colin Firth looks also older than his bodily age, only was peachy in his function. No Hugh Grant, just a new competitor was introduced which is none other than Patrick Dempsey.
This is not the same kind of narration that we saw a decade ago. Considering all the characters are aged, then according to the situation this story takes place. It's a 2 hour long motion-picture show, but it had some adept jokes. Those who enjoyed the first 2 would surely enjoy it also. And so choosing it to scout is not a bad idea.
7/10
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Profoundly Sad Analysis of a Largely Indifferent Urban Globe
Conceived as a comedy, the third in a highly successful franchise, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY exerts a greatly dissimilar reaction. What we are introduced to is the life of the protagonist (Renee Zellweger) that is totally devoid of any real meaning. Spending her work days in some trashy media outlet, she is forced to oral fissure platitudes so as to satisfy her boss, while spending her leisure hours in drastic attempts to get laid with colleagues whose sole idea of "a expert time" is to indulge in relentless innuendo and savor the prospect of hereafter shags. No i, it seems, has either the courage or the strength of mind to admit their truthful feelings.
In Zellweger's performance Bridget comes beyond every bit someone profoundly short on self-confidence. She utters witty voice-overs to the viewers every bit she types her diary, just we understood fairly early on into the movie that they are evasions, a way of refusing to tell the truth to herself. It is this error that leads her into the picture show'southward central dilemma; the need to find out who the father of her baby actually is - Marker Darcy (Colin Firth), or smoothen American rival (Patrick Dempsey), a task for which she feels both emotionally and temperamentally unsuited.
However we can understand her feelings, when the 2 men in her life seem so profoundly cocky-interested. Forget their insincere protestations of dearest; their real aim in life is to satisfy their self-interest. Mark oscillates between Bridget and his wife Candida (whom we see fleetingly); when it suits his purposes, he tosses Candida aside in favor of Bridget. Meanwhile his rival seems more interested in sustaining his self-paradigm as a "caring" American (as opposed to the indifferent Brit) rather than really understanding Bridget's circuitous emotions.
The film contains an array of sexist and homophobic stereotypes guaranteed to offend anyone, from Bridget's mother's (Gemma Jones's) house-party with a token invitee-listing of those embracing alternative lifestyles, to the profoundly depressing sight of Bridget being dropped like a piece of meat into the hospital, immediately earlier her pregnancy is due to start. Questions of man nobility and female well-existence are left aside: Bridget is no more than than a commodity to her so-chosen suitors.
The overall impression left by the film is of an indifferent London, a place where no i actually cares for anyone else, where hedonism and superficiality reign supreme, and where single women have piddling or zip to await forward to in their lives. It seems a suitably depressive release for the postal service-Brexit era.
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Absolutely lovely, very funny film
Bridget Jones'south Baby was consistently funny and too moving from start to finish. The audition at the showing I attended were laughing throughout.
The plot is well known (from the championship and movie poster if nothing else!) but essentially Bridget Jones has split from Marking Darcy some years ago. She's been single for a while and has a one-night stand up with a very handsome American (Patrick Dempsey) who turns out to be a billionaire internet entrepreneur. A few days later she gets drunk and hooks up with Marc Darcy after a christening. A few weeks afterward she takes a pregnancy examination, and then has no idea who the babe'due south father is. She declines an amniocentesis and then spends the entire pregnancy with the 2 potential fathers fighting over both her and the baby.
It's a very stiff cast, Emma Thompson in particular is a wonderful improver as Bridget'due south obstetrician, every bit is Sarah Solemani who plays Bridget's friend and colleague, the TV presenter Miranda. The scenes at the Goggle box station are very agreeable.
You know you're in for a 100% happy ending with a film like this, so you can really sit down back and savour the ride. There'south only i fashion the plot could really terminate, but it does very well to continue you lot guessing nonetheless.
I have no thought why this movie only (as of writing this) merely has an average review of 6.2. I can merely imagine that the kinds of people who like to sneer at anything "feel good" or romantic simply spend their time trashing such films.
To sum up: information technology'due south a very entertaining and enjoyable picture. It would probably exist best to see the commencement Bridget Jones film first (you could hands skip the 2d) or at least have read the book, but even if this is your offset "Bridget Feel", you'll have a good fourth dimension watching it.
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Absolutely horrific!
Not funny! Non precipitous. Not Rene Zellweger. What has she done to her face? How tin she actually practise THAT much plastic surgery? She was beautiful (so were Meg Ryan AND Helen Hunt before they messed with their mugs!!!I couldn't even lookout a few minutes of it, every bit she tells two men that she is pregnant and has no thought who'southward the daddy, in her Bridget Jones rambling manner, which is not funny anymore. And it's a shame. Considering the first movie was fresh, different, sharp, and genuinely footing breaking. This? No.
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Delightful bandage
Renée Zellweger and a delightful cast, particularly Emma Thompson, add some weight to the low-cal simplistic plot of this movie. Dempsey and Firth contrast beautifully, and each has a different kind of chemical science with Zellweger. Information technology's funny and engaging and the lead character, it feels current because they've allowed it to abound. Merely there isn't much that feels fresh in movie. The i exception is Emma Thompson. In spite of the mess, Zellweger remains winsome and charming as Bridget, enough and then that one wishes the movie had done better by her. In brusk, Bridget Jones's Babe is not a corking Bridget Jones pic, simply it is a Bridget Jones movie, and maybe that's all people demand.
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F@*k
I literally think the writers and actors wanted to meet how many times they could say the world f@*k in a film. OK, I'one thousand certain yous win the honour for that one. You achieved maxim the word f@*yard more times than any other picture. That might be cutting edge if it were the sixties only it'due south 2016 and there is nothing funny, artistic, or even remotely original about cursing. How about some funny poignant jokes? Homo, this film and information technology's cast looked tired and done. Fifty-fifty the sound editing was horrible. The phonation dubs were so obvious it was distracting. But worst of all was the writing. This pic might take worked twenty/thirty years agone, but there is cipher unusual about all the things they think are pushing the societal norms.
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Utter boredom
Over 90% of the movies that I spotter are horror then as a rule romantic comedies aren't really my cup of tea. However,I really enjoyed the get-go Bridget Jones movie, the second was and then so. Naturally I was curious nearly this, the third entry. At the age of 43 Bridget gets pregnant, only she's not certain who the father is, he could be either her ex Mark Darcy, or he could be an American billionaire. Personally I didn't intendance who he is, this movie is so incredibly wearisome and unfunny, I only well-nigh hung on until the end credits. I establish it deplorable that a picture show resorts to swearing in attempt to be funny. Information technology's not. Only positive thing was the soundtrack. Oh, and Bridget's more slender effigy. Two hours of utter colorlessness.
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was not necessary to make this movie
The commencement time, it was cute.
The 2nd time, not so cute.
This time, a disaster.
Go out Well Enough Alone!
Whoever bandage Patrick Dempsey is just plain stupid! He fits this movie like ii left shoes And Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent-skillful grief don't these people always only go away?
Every bit for Mr. Firth, he has only 1 expression-VSO (Very Seriously Old)
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Couldn't End It
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There is, indeed, something wrong with Zellweger's face job. The stretched eyes, the botoxed forehead, the puffed out lips - made a joke out of the Bridget Jones character. And the British accent - past at present wouldn't it be MORE believable after the tertiary outing instead of something from a loftier school drama class? Zellweger'south scrunched up facial expressions take become identical - hurting, thinking, happy all await the same. The premise of the movie - that a 43-year-old woman can't tell who fathered her kid - is painfully stupid.
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Zellweger'south Facial Contortions Ruin The Film
This is a mediocre movie, that might have been better, primarily due to Renee Zellweger'southward mugging her mode through the picture. Not sure what the reason was, perhaps to prove that in spite of having a plastic face she nevertheless could purse her lips, pout, and twist her face around just as if it was a real one. Who knows? I know all information technology did was show the gal can't act but she sure tin can brand faces. Large deal. Patrick Dempsey and Colin Firth were splendid playing total opposites and possibly dad'due south for Bridget's baby. Emma Thompson, every bit the doctor, was a hoot and well bandage. The music of Ed Sheeran was a delight, too. Altogether, this was a rather cute idea made into something rather on the giddy side by Zellweger and the plight of the writers who seem to be of the ilk that think writing a whole lot of f-words as dialogue is sufficient. It isn't. Much of the foul language could have been cut equally there was no apparent reason for it other than, like I said, inept writing.
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Well fabricated third installment
Admittedly, 'Bridget Jones' isn't really made for me. Information technology'south a chick-moving picture - I'm a man, information technology'due south British humor - I prefer American, it'southward based around romance - I enjoy action in my movies. Taking all that into consideration, the fact that I didn't listen 'Bridget Jones's Baby' is really a big endorsement for information technology. More often than not I'k a fan of action driving the comedy in films, still the simplicity in 'Bridget Jones' is probably its biggest strength. The characters are meant to be what you come up to run across and a platform for their interactions is all that is necessary. As far as a platform goes I thought the baby thing worked quite well. It gave everyone a genuine reason to be in interested in 'Bridget' and lead itself to enough humorous situations to be a wise decision.
I won't lie, it took a flake of getting used to the new-look Renee Zellweger. I had to keep reminding myself that this was indeed the same actress from the commencement two films. Information technology doesn't really detract from her performance, it's simply a lark. Emma Thompson was the stand-out performer for me. Her dry humour played off perfectly against Zellweger and every scene she was in she stole. If this is where they cull to wrap up the series, I think they'd exist making a wise decision. I can't see any more than stories worth being told with these characters and 'Bridget Jones's Baby' would be an ideal fashion to exit on a loftier.
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