The latest installment in the Bridget Jones franchise, while attempting to revive the series with new suitors and a mature storyline, unfortunately falls short. Critics point out tired jokes, unconvincing attempts at emotional depth, and a lack of chemistry between the lead actors. Despite returning fan favorites like Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson, the film struggles to recapture the magic of its predecessors.
Renée Zellweger looks as if she’s thinking of something else in weird fourquel that sees our heroine choosing between new suitors Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor– the second sequel, about Bridget having a baby – executed the daring athletic leap of jumping the shark and then jumping back.
ad gives us a Darcy 2.0 hunk in the water and showcases Dinah Washington’s performance of Mad About the Boy; there’s a nice gag about Bridget being asked by a young man at the till if she wants to complete her meal deal. Naturally Hugh Grant gets giant laughs, returning as the ageing, golden-hearted cad Daniel Cleaver. So does Emma Thompson, back as the down-to-earth gynaecologist from the previous film. But Bridget herself looks marooned and oddly dazed.
Those who don’t want to know what is revealed in the trailer’s opening moments had better look away now … but Bridget’s husband has died. Carrie Bradshaw’s Mr Big collapsed fatally and ignominiously on his Peloton, but human rights lawyer Mark Darcy has somehow nobly expired doing his good works in foreign parts and the movie doesn’t give us the details.
All of Bridget’s mates return in continuing laugh-free cameos, including Shazzer , Jude , Tom , Miranda and Talitha . Bridget’s mum and dad, Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent, return too on a melancholy note and Celia Imrie is there so briefly she is almost subliminal.After such a long time in brave misery, Bridget decides to revamp her life: she goes back to work as the world’s ditsiest TV producer and her friends urge her to get back in the dating scene.
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