Bridget
Jones's Baby
The entire movie feels like an unwelcome relic re-emerging from a
different generation. Did someone use the technology from Jurassic
Park to clone the Bridget we once knew to give us this pale
imitation?
Renee Zellweger is back as Bridget Jones, and she’s still a mess.
It’s her 43rd birthday, Bridget still is sad over the breakup she
had with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) almost five years ago, and the lady
wonders if she is condemned to life as a spinster.
While away at a big music festival, Bridget meets Jack (Patrick
Dempsey). Because he is sexy and charming, let’s just say the two
of them hit it off, but, the next morning, Bridget sneaks away.
About a week later, Bridget is the Godmother for a friend’s baby,
and runs into Mark. Let’s just say they hit it off, but, the next
morning, Bridget sneaks away.
Soon, Bridget discovers she is pregnant, but which guy is the father?
Will one of them try to sneak off?
Bridget Jones’s Baby is a sad attempt to
rehash and revive a character who hasn’t been relevant in the 12
years since the last installment. Who has been sitting around hoping we
can see more of Bridget’s antics? Was there a petition? Did I
miss the protests and marches?
The movie is a series of pratfalls, Three’s Company-style
misunderstandings and deceptions, and far too much melodrama combined
with predictability and tired clichés.
Writers Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson try to fit in too
many little story threads. We don’t need to see Bridget’s
struggles at work as she faces a new group of twentysomething hipsters
changing her beloved news program. The give and take of her
relationship with Mark seems pitiful as we are left to wonder why two
people who seem constantly to break up and get back together are going
through this again at their age. The opening sequence giving us some
information about what happened to Hugh Grant’s character is
meaningless and useless. Plus, the last minute frantic race to the
hospital during labor has been overdone twenty times over.
Just when you think the Bridget Jones franchise might be finished for
good, we get the horrific tease of a sequel. Somebody stop them before
it is too late.
Bridget
Jones’s Baby is rated R for
language, sex references and some nudity.
122 Minutes
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