However, Bridget knows that he can not prioritize their relationship even as they are united again in “Bridget Jones’ Baby”.
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‘Bridget Jones’s Baby, ‘ with Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Emma Thompson.
Bridget has a tendency to self-sabotage her romances, but biology doesn’t let her off the hook this time, and at 43, she finds herself with child. The second installment was released 12 years ago; the third and recent installment was just released to the theatres this month. By analyzing “Still Falling for You”, the end credit song to Bridget Jones’s Baby, writer Olivia Truffaut-Wong discovers that the song’s lyrics bear a resemblance to Bridget and Mark’s relationship.
Back to Bridget, who admittedly is trapped in one of the hoariest premises in the romantic comedy playbook: She doesn’t know which of the two men she recently had impulse sex with is the father, and never mind that this could be settled with a quick scrape of DNA.
Bridget Jones stands on her own far more in this film than the previous two, with most of the supporting characters-from best friend Miranda (Sarah Solemani) to Darcy and Qwant-simply along for well-timed banter or convenient plot devices. 16 years after the Blair Witch franchise seemed to end, and 12 years after Bridget’s last series of misadventures, they are each coming back on the same day on September 16. It’s a choice between the great love and the new love, which many ladies of all ages can certainly relate to.
Clearly, Bridget Jones’s Baby isn’t without its fair share of romantic comedy tropes, with the love triangle at the forefront being the most obvious, but what weirdly gives the film a particular edge is what can only be described as its cheekiness. Perhaps that’s because the last time I saw her was in 2004’s pretty bad Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which erased the vast good will I had for Bridget Jones’s Diary, the 2001 original. Surely movies-even those of a bygone era where people actually knew what a “record scratch” was-didn’t really use the record scratch as storytelling shorthand for “wait, whaaaaat?” Both Mark and Jack are keen to be the father of Bridget’s baby, so until testing confirms paternity, both men do their best to step up, courting Bridget and accompanying her to prenatal classes.
Bridget refuses the amniocentesis from her OB-GYN (a flawless Emma Thompson, whose appearance alone makes the movie worth it).
BOTTOM LINE: What a treat it is to dive back into the cozy world of Bridget Jones, who is the kind of old friend you can pick up with right where it left off, no matter how long it’s been.
Unlike Bridget Jones’s Baby, Blair Witch tried to come out of nowhere just like its predecessor did.
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That’s the whole point of Bridget, who seizes life as she finds it, makes lemonade, and brings everyone else on board – even her Mum, the Tory. But there’s something lost in what Bridget Jones meant to a lot of women.
