Enjoying the sterner, more forceful nature of the wiser Bridget, Zellweger’s superb timing works wonderfully with Thompson’s witticisms while still maintaining a suitable dose of heartache melancholia.
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Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) returns in this third film to continue with blunders and stumbles and she’s hit her mid 40’s and accepted her life as a fun-loving spinster. Maybe it’s just because, like Bridget, I’m several years older now and my tastes have refined, but I don’t recall laughter in the theater the first time….at least not like I heard with this one. She’s not quite sure which of her beaus is the father, and the movie strains to wring humor from this somewhat forced dilemma.
Forty-something and single again, she decides to focus on her job as a top news producer, and surround herself with friends old and new.
In essence he’s the replacement for Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver, the sexual-harassing boss who famously got into Bridget’s “enormous panties” many times over.
She revealed: “When you go away and you’re out of people’s consciousness, they stop noticing you”.
“Oh my God, I so hope my son is not watching this right now”, Ripa interjected to laughs about her and her husband Mark Consuelos’ college-age son Michael.
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” is directed by Sharon Maguire-who also directed the first Jones film, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”-and the latest entry is a welcome improvement on 2004’s inane “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”.
Women in labor have been depicted many times onscreen with huffing, puffing and screaming, and while some of that is here, the long journey to the delivery is one of the high points of the movie. However, in a final twist, Mark approaches Jack and tells him playfully to “give me back my son”. That turns out to be McDreamy himself: Patrick Dempsey, who plays an internet mogul named Jack. But I think my favorite scene was when Darcy is carrying Bridget to the hospital because there’s a traffic jam and then Jack jumps in to help – I was dying of laughter.
But just in case you think you’ve seen the last of the adventures Bridget Jones, think again.
The lowdown: A pregnant Bridget is unsure of the baby’s father.
The thing that might make “Baby” the most satisfying in the trilogy has to do with that dozen-year gap in which, despite her central predicament, Bridget has actually grown up a little, finally.
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All three leads are perfectly capable of handling both the comedic situations and heartfelt, touching scenes easily and there are some hilarious psychical comedy moments, such as them both trying to get Bridget to the hospital.
