This new
addition to the Bridget Jones franchise is worth it, especially
considering the twelve-year gap between this movie and the second movie in the
franchise. I was worried when I heard that Hugh Grant would not be part of the
cast. The second movie, Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004),
wasn’t as impressive as the first, Bridget
Jones’s Diary (2001), but I still enjoyed seeing the trio back at
it.
Hugh Grant has always played the role of the villain, Daniel Cleaver, in both
earlier movies, so when this movie came out without Daniel, I was worried about
what direction the movie would take with the new addition to the cast, Patrick
Dempsey.
What I’ve always
loved about Bridget Jones movies is the free flow of events and how
they try to make the incidents occur in ways that feel natural, yet too silly
to be true. That free flow was restricted in the second movie, and Hugh Grant’s
character seemed unreal and more annoying than he was in the first.
Another reason this movie was done well is that the producers did something
smart—they brought back Sharon Maguire, who directed the first movie.
Sharon is the
best person for this franchise if they decide to make a fourth Bridget
Jones movie. She’s close to the characters, as the book the movie is based
on was written by her close friend Helen Fielding, and one of the characters is
based on her.
Patrick
Dempsey’s character, Jack, didn’t play a bad guy role. His role in this movie
is more of a good match against Colin Firth’s character, Mark Darcy, and his
portrayal was well done.
While the movie
is going on, you can feel Mark having the upper hand as Bridget’s soulmate, but
the introduction of Jack will make you start guessing.
The movie plot
starts with Bridget turning 43 and being alone. She and Mark broke up, and Mark
is now married. The two see each other again at the funeral of Daniel Cleaver
(which is the writers’ way of killing off the character), and Bridget struggles
to maintain her composure upon seeing Mark.
Her friend feels
sorry for her and takes her camping at a concert, where she runs into Jack, who
helps her out of the mud. She runs into him again when she mistakenly enters
his tent. Sparks start to fly, and they have sex. When she wakes up and doesn’t
see him in the tent, she leaves.
Back home, some days later, Bridget is invited to be a godmother, and Mark has
been asked to be the godfather to Jude’s child. Mark tells her that he and his
wife are planning on getting a divorce, and later on, they have sex.
Bridget doesn’t
want to start things back up with Mark again, so she distances herself from
him. Things would have been fine here, but Bridget discovers she’s pregnant.
Since she slept with two men within days of each other, she has no idea who the
father might be.
The whole
journey of discovering the father and how Bridget handles the two men is worth
seeing in this classy romantic comedy. I wouldn’t mind seeing a fourth part if
they decide to make one, as long as they keep Sharon Maguire as the director.
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