And what, we wonder, would Bridget be getting up to in a fourth movie?
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Renee Zellweger has revealed that the script for Bridget Jones’s Baby had no ending, in a bid to stop the plot from leaking to eager fans. The last time she made a bold declaration, the New Year’s resolution to straighten up and find a decent man in Bridget Jones’s Diary, she connected with Cleaver and Darcy. If anything, Bridget Jones’s Baby faces an even bigger challenge: How do you get audiences to care about the same heroine going through the same troubles with men 17 years later?
In all, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” feels as though it is trying too hard to be amusing, to be relatable and to be relevant.
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. As for Mark, he’s out of the picture too, now that he’s married, which stings a bit, but that’s life. Was it Jack (Patrick Dempsey), a millionaire online-dating mogul with whom she had a one-night stand at a music festival?
Zellweger, however, remains utterly charming in the title role (Bridget’s chipper way of giving herself little bucking-up pep talks is completely endearing).
After all, she might break a bone if she fell as often as she did in the first two films. (Could those be the same pajama bottoms she wore in Bridget Jones’s Diary?) Zellweger’s voice-over strikes the familiar self-excoriating tone as Bridget reminds herself of the gap between aspirations and outcome.
Bridget Jones is back! It is absolutely inconceivable that Bridget, a single 43-year-old pregnant woman, never considers terminating her pregnancy even if she eventually rejected it. Much of the humor of the film comes from Bridget trying to hedge her bets, unsure of the father’s identity.
The third installment to the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” movie back in 2001 has just hit the theatres and it has been getting nothing but praises from the audience, even scoring a flawless score on a prestigious critic site, Rotten Tomatoes. She recently told People magazine when asked about her poor decisions, she shared that one would be taking “bad advice… when someone else’s suggestion about what might be a good idea feels like kindness”.
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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. The sheer positivity of “Bridget Jones’s Baby” is a breath of fresh air and something that I wish I got more often in films, rather than the dark, DC Comics-style drab, dark feeling that so many films love pervading theaters with nowadays.
