Film Review of Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason
Year: 2004 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Another example of a sequel that's better than the original. In this episode, podgy, frumpy and thoroughly unattractive Miss Jones (Renee Zellwegger with added pounds) strangely continues to attract the sauve and eligible Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. The remarkable thing is that, by the end of the film, she has become convincingly irresistible and without any too obvious a makeover. Bridget Jones, the Edge of Reason is a film that would suffocate on its own clichés and formulas if it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't stop for breath. It's frankly awful were it not so enjoyable.
Brigette manages the 'boyfriend' experience for a few months until her own excruciating dreadfulness ends the patina of normalcy. She goes off to work in Thailand and gets set up and arrested for drug smuggling. Nice happy endings after she has taught the Thai prison inmates to sing 'Like a Virgin' and been rescued. It's all very familiar territory, right down to to the over-sized pants and Hugh Grant attempting to woo her before getting caught with a Thai prostitute (who turns out, surprise, surprise, to be a transsexual).
I have been admonished for not looking down my nose at this romp. Okay, it's not in quite the same class as Four Weddings & a Funeral or Love Actually, but at least half of the target audience will not fail to be thrilled.
Sadly, I laughed with them right to the end.
Rating: 8/10
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