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They're at it again. Renee Zellweger has put the weight back on. Hugh Grant is as amusingly caddish as ever. Colin Firth is again a big, stuffed, curiously lovable goose. And Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is, if not better than Bridget Jones's Diary, at least as good...
There's a little moment in the film that's emblematic of the whole. We see Bridget in her bedroom, where she's just enjoyed fabulous sex with Firth's Mark Darcy. She's wriggling around under a gray comforter, looking from behind like a small elephant. He asks what in the world she is doing. Getting dressed, she says, but hiding the "wobbly bits." He firmly states his adoration of them, and her delighted grin seals a basic bargain with the audience. We all have our wobbly bits. And we all desperately hope our lovers and friends will accept...
Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is back and this time she’s counting carbs, not calories. There are some other surface changes in the life of the world’s favorite singleton: she’s shacked up with the dreamy Darcy (Colin Firth) and is no longer, well, single. But the script is furnished with the same jokes from the first movie, except the second time the “watch Bridget fall flat on her face in a very short skirt” routine is less vaudeville and more ritual humiliation. The movie seems to perpetuate, rather...
...movie begins with a dead end, plot wise. Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is deliriously happy with her “top human rights lawyer” of a boyfriend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). She texts that she’s “missing you already” immediately after they kiss each other goodbye in the morning and Bridget makes a lot of fuss about their fabulous sex life, or in Bridget-speak, their frequent “shagathons...
...can’t help but feel that this sequel betrays the delightfully subversive spirit of Helen Fielding’s comic creation. Admittedly, the raw material was less-than-stellar: putting aside the side-splitting botched interview with Colin Firth which for obvious reasons could not be included in the movie (having Colin Firth play Colin Firth would be far too Spike Jonze), the novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason lacks the consistent hilarity and striking originality of its predecessor, Bridget Jones’ Diary...