Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Director: Sharon Maguire. (15)
Comedy
Rating: 3/5
Synopsis
Now no longer a love-lorn 30-something struggling to nail down a career, Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a successful TV producer for ‘Hard News’…but still single.
Her newscaster and good friend Miranda (Sarah Solemani) spirits her away to a music festival for booze and sex, where Bridget meets and sleeps with handsome American Jack (Patrick Dempsey).
A few days later she bumps into her ex, Human Rights Lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and sleeps with him, for old times sake. Finding herself pregnant and with no idea who the father could be, she juggles impending motherhood with how to keep both men on side until she can solve the paternal mystery.
Review by Jason Day
You would think that now the hapless-in-life-and-love star of TV Bridget Jones has gone and got herself 'in the family way' (the whole point of her clumsy endeavours in previous films and Helen Fielding's novels and Independent columns of yore) there wouldn't be much more for her to do and everything would be tied up all nice and neatly.
Well, think again. The plot-line may have have concluded but the story has been left wide open for what will probably be the most unnecessary fourth instalment ever, if it is ever made (this third film was first mooted seven years ago).
At least Baby erases most of the memory of the unfunny second instalment, The Edge Of Mediocrity (or whatever to was called) in a film which has some very big and fairly frequent laughs and set-pieces.
This will be in part (or perhaps largely) due to co-writer/co-star Emma Thompson, who gave the script its final polish and polishes off the best part in the movie, Bridget's perfectly, understandably sarcastic Obstetrician.
Its nice to see that Zellweger's 'facial rejuvination' which hit the headlines two years ago doesn't obstruct her giving a finely dovetailed 'semi-conclusion' to the life and woes of the most adorably useless English singleton and the cracking support cast is good value for money from top to bottom.
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Cast & credits
Director: Sharon Maguire. 123 mins. Miramax/Working Title/Miramax. (15)
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward.
Writers: Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Emma Thompson.
Camera: Andrew Dunn.
Music: Craig Armstrong.
Sets: John Paul Kelly.
Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Solemani, Neil Pearson, Joanna Scanlan, Kate O’Flynn, Emma Thompson, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson, James Callis.
