Bridget Jone’s Baby opened in cinemas on Friday (September 16th).
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Fans of Bridget Jones and those feeling nostalgic over 90s-early 2000s rom-coms won’t be disappointed by Bridget Jones’s Baby.
All my issues with Bridget Jones are problems that should have been caught in the first or second round. Alone after losing Mark, she attends an outdoor music festival and stumbles into the yurt of Jack Qwant (Dempsey). When Bridget Jones realized that she is pregnant, she is at a loss of who the father is.
But his absence is explained with such wry humour, and newcomer Patrick Dempsey fits in so well, you have to admire what screenwriter Fielding, Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson (who also amusingly acts as Bridget’s eyebrow-raising obstetrician) have managed to pull off here. It just is. Her friends all flaked on her and so she has a night by herself. Even self-absorbed Tom (James Callus) is adopting a child with his partner, which leaves Bridget the last singleton.
Let’s not kid ourselves, though; as amusing as this movie is, it’s equally as predictable.
“Bridget Jones’s Baby” also does something that not many films this year have made me do: smile.
Yet Bridget “still doesn’t quite have it all together”, said the actress.
‘The guys just changed places so we got both things done. What Bridget Jones’s Diary got right for women in their thirties is the tricky, sometimes painful, often confused junction where feminism rubs up against the legitimate desire to find love that holds.
Unlike other pregnancy/romantic comedies, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” actually comes up with original and very amusing jokes.
Older but not necessarily wiser, fortysomething-and-still-single Bridget, now at her ideal weight and working as the executive producer of a nightly television news show, continues to seek contentment, clarity, self-esteem, sobriety, and Mr.
Speaking of cute and hilarious, Bridget herself is still a breath of fresh air as a character.
Director Sharon Maguire (reprising that role from the original) wrings what humor she can from what feels like an awfully familiar, bordering-on-tired premise for a romantic comedy. We can only hope now that Bridget has a family, she will finally do some growing up.
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Frankly, the most interesting aspect of this recent trend toward long-delayed sequels (think “Finding Dory” and “Independence Day: Resurgence”) is what it says about the perceived appetite for nostalgia, as well as films whose theatrical afterlife is robust enough to make studios eager to cash in on known commodities think it’s time for a return engagement. Maguire, reportedly the model for Bridget’s fizzy friend Shazzer, directs this new sequel with the same antic flair she brought to Bridget Jones’s Diary when the novel-based franchise began in 2001.
