Older and slimmer, she’s now a successful TV news producer but she still insidiously peddles the same stereotypical ideas about being single, having babies and marriage.
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Zellweger said she and Firth brushed up on their characters by revisiting “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason”. Next thing you know, she is as they say in the United Kingdom, up the spout, and has no idea, as they say in the U.S., who’s the daddy. Wonder of wonders, we get another film that recalls the fun of the first, with original director Sharon Maguire again at the helm (she sat out the second one).
Their movie doesn’t pretend to be anything other than lighthearted, R-rated fun, and I mention the rating because the Brits love to swear and talk about sex, a lot.
FOLLOWING the previous very popular outings of Bridget Jones on the big screen, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” rushes into Nu Metro The Glen from Friday, September 16 (along with other cinemas nationwide).
For a genre and franchise that’s lingered way past its best-by date, Bridget Jones’s Baby still elicits a couple of chuckles. Colin Firth, playing his third iteration of the gruff but passionate lawyer Mark Darcy, just turned 56.
Yet if Bridget’s sexual dry spell is over, her headaches have just begun.
You should be so lucky as to let Bridget Jones and her filthy mouth, charming love interests, confused body positivity, and unwavering hope shine a little light into your cynical life.
Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones return as Bridget’s parents, and Sarah Solemani as BFF Mirandi. In her forties, Bridget is a different kind of singleton than she was ten years earlier.
While the neuroses of “Bridget Jones” have always been about bodies, “Baby” releases her from this anxiety and flips the script, letting Bridget reclaim the power of her own body.
She is a fan of fitness: the Bridget Jones’s Baby star, 47, says she feels sexiest while “in some state of athletic activity”. So why should we fault the (mostly female) public who will line up for this? When she spills the beans about her pregnancy, Jack brings too many gifts. Only this time she’s expecting. I’ll wager that in the sequel yet to come, Bridget will renegotiate Brexit, with Darcy as her legal eagle.
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Yet the sequel somehow managed to nicely resolve Bridget’s relationship status with the achingly awkward Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), making a third film unnecessary, as all parties seemed to amazingly agree. 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.
