AS creative pregnancies go, Bridget Jones’s Baby has taken longer than most to come full-term.
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Drunk and disoriented, Bridget manages to stumble into the wrong tent at a “hippie- like” festival and ends up in bed with Jack (Patrick Dempsey; Sweet Home Alabama). Bridget’s sexual mishap isn’t played against her, the film actually cuts to the chase pretty quickly and has the film focus on Bridget’s life balancing two possible fathers rather than selfishly keeping it from them.
Renee Zellweger is charming as ever in “Bridget Jones’s Baby”, a lively return to form for the unlikely trilogy about an ordinary woman and her professional and romantic woes. Once all involved parties are informed of the situation (both men are thrilled), the competition for her affections begins in earnest. Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) died in a plane crash, and his death “seems to have hit the Eastern European modeling community particularly hard”.
Bridget Jones’s Baby follows 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” to the movie marketplace.
Zellweger returns to the screen after a six-year break, and though her demeanor, athleisure and worn baseball cap inspire a casual vibe, it’s impossible to ignore the nasty headlines about her appearance. Just don’t think too much about the quality of the cackles or the plot, which makes no sense. The hilarious scenarios, especially those in the doctor’s office and the hospital were well drafted and thought out and bring the laughter every time.
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” is the sequel worthy of the Bridget Jones moniker, not like its first failure at one. So I don’t feel like she’s running around chasing after a guy this time. Those looking forward to catching up with Bridget are likely to enjoy this new installment, which is charmingly inoffensive, if not particularly highbrow or groundbreaking. But there’s something lost in what Bridget Jones meant to a lot of women. While not particularly original, the story is interesting and the love story between Bridget and Mark picks up right where it left off. The latter character sweeps Bridget off her feet but soon complicates matters after realizing she is pregnant. His entrance in the first film, moving in slow motion out of a lift, his eyes moving like a predator from side to side, was one of the great movie entrances, the romcom equivalent of Harry Lime appearing in that Viennese doorway.
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“I highly recommend it because it’s very different than when it’s the perfunctory thing that you’re supposed to do after you finish high school to make your parents happy…”
