Instead, they’re refreshing and surprise you with a twist. It begins with Bridget, single and childless at 43, sitting alone in her flat on her birthday, with a glass of wine and a cake with a single candle, singing along to “All By Myself”.
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Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones return as Bridget’s parents, and Sarah Solemani as BFF Mirandi.
It turns out a lengthy break is just what this series needed to find its footing after the manic missteps of 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”, which fell into some of the common traps of sequels looking to up the stakes. Bridget, however, leaves in the morning, as she remembers all too well Mark’s inability to put her first.
We have seen Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy sharing a 10 year history with Mark as the human rights lawyer and ex-boyfriend. Seeing Zellweger and Firth together again (along with several original co-stars) confirms the wisdom of casting them all those years ago. While they indeed do the deed, Bridget has no idea who Jack really is and Jack doesn’t know Bridget’s last name. Of course, this short-term bliss comes crashing down when Bridget discovers – soon after one-night flings with both Mark and Jack – that she’s pregnant. “Bridget Jones’s Baby” is the flawless remedy. Renee has a very satisfying soliloquy toward the end of the film. “They just had a bunch of Xs and Ys (to hide the identity of the baby’s father in the script), and on the day that they shot (the reveal scene) they just moved men and babies around!” But who is the father? Psych! Just as she makes it to the altar, Jack steps aside to make room for Mark, the real groom. Yay!
Renee Zellweger drove herself to exhaustion because she didn’t believe she had a legitimate excuse to take time off from work.
Bustle actually predicted this weeks before the release of the film. However, Bridget knows that he can not prioritize their relationship even as they are united again in “Bridget Jones’ Baby”.
If we’re lucky, we’ll get to check in with her again in another few years. In other words: They have history. And so, she sets out to get her life in order and sort out which of her suitors is the father of her child. So, what you’ve got is a kind of external view of the guy, so I kind of made it up.
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Most of the cast from the first two movies have returned for “Bridget Jones’s Baby”; Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson and James Callis are all back in their roles, with new additions from Patrick Dempsey as the charming but annoying Jack and Sarah Solemani as Bridget’s rather amusing and fearless new friend Miranda.
