After Bridget
Jones’s Diary comes the next one, Bridget Jones: The Edge of
Reason, which was not in any way as reasonable a movie as the first one was.
It’s also based on a book of the same name by Helen Fielding, who wrote this
sequel in 1999. So, the movie production company followed suit.
The movie lacked
the flair the first one had. It felt like the director was more interested in
making us laugh at the scenarios Bridget found herself in. The extra comedy
wasn’t needed—we liked Bridget
Jones’s Diary because of the drama, and the comedy was just an
add-on.
The main plot
focuses on the relationship between Bridget and Mark after the events of Bridget
Jones’s Diary. This time, we encounter a jealous Bridget.
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) in this movie is jealous of Mark’s (Colin Firth) new,
pretty assistant. If this had been the only thing the movie focused on, I
wonder how it would have turned out—probably much better.
By some weird alignment of the stars, she runs into Daniel (Hugh Grant), her
ex, and they end up having to do a travel show together. Will she accept to do
the show with Daniel, even after her friends told her it was a bad idea? Yes,
she did.
The main focus,
mind you, is Bridget and Mark, so the introduction of Daniel into the mix could
have been handled better. It felt like his character was forcing his presence
to seem relevant.
Hugh Grant isn’t a bad actor, but this time, I can’t recall being more annoyed
by a character. In the first movie, he was a slick, smart villain in a love
triangle. Here, he was just pathetic.
To continue, Bridget is expecting Mark to propose, and she does some silly things in the hope of being ready for it. Him not proposing, combined with her growing jealousy of his assistant, drives a wedge between them. Meanwhile, Daniel is still there, trying to stay relevant.
How it ends—the separation between Mark and Bridget, her getting locked up, and whether they get back together or not—is something you’ll have to find out when you watch this sequel to one of the most iconic romantic movies I’ve seen.
The plot of this
sequel is hard to compare to the first movie. It’s highly predictable, and at
one point, it felt like I was just waiting to see which scenario would be used
to end it, since I already knew how it would go.
The movie was very successful at the box office, although it was plagued with
negative reviews. A third installment, Bridget
Jones’s Baby, was released in 2016, and the third party in the
relationship between Bridget and Mark isn’t Daniel—his character isn’t in the
movie at all.
The third movie
was directed by Sharon Maguire, who also directed the first one, and it’s just
as good as the original.
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