Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

If you liked "Love, Actually," you'll love this too, another small jewel in the crown of unabashedly commercial, cheerfully middlebrow, eminently exportable British fluff.

Doesn't have nearly enough Hugh Grant and is a little short on laughs, but it gets by on Renée Zellweger's charms.

Improbably, the sequel only ups the ante on its predecessor's comedy-of-embarrassment quotient.

Begins by repeating many gags from the previous film. Only now they feel lame and routine.

Labored and dispiriting.

One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton."

Man, does this one make the first movie look like a masterpiece. What was Renée Zellweger thinking? It can't have been fun to put on all that weight, especially for a film as ghastly as this.

This is a fairly amusing film sequel. Its not as good as the follow up, Bridget Jones' Baby, which I saw recently but its still entertaining and amusing, in a cringe-y way, as all Bridget Jones films are. Its hardly the best film of its type but it could be worse - seeing Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fight like little boys is amusing enough and there are comical moments with Bridget skydiving and the like. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but there are worse films around, though I'm not sure this is the best of the 3 films made to date, it could certainly be worse. A harmless bit of slapstick fun.

After the success of the first movie, the sequel was something we knew was going to happen, and it wasn't going to be as good or as fresh as it turned out. The film includes the core cast and crew of the first film and achieves an interesting and pleasing sense of narrative continuity, but the fun, freshness, lightness and creativity of the first film are largely absent from this sequel, which it is limited, in part, to following up on its story and reusing a formula that has worked well. In this movie, Bridget and Darcy are finally together and happy... until her doubts about his faithfulness (obviously fueled by her friends, who in these things are excellent for putting fuel to the fire) lead to successive conflicts. However, her career and her life are undergoing changes, with an approach to her ex-boyfriend, Daniel, who will try to seize the opportunity to get back into her relationship with her rival. It's a reasonably well-written story, if we discard the more imaginative elements, like the protagonist's passage through prison in a foreign country (for me, it was the most forgettable moment in the plot). The humor is still there, but it's not as effective and the film is lukewarm. As far as the cast is concerned, we have nothing new: again, Renee Zellwegger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are once again the stars of a cast full of familiar faces. The three are perfectly at ease with the characters and do a very good job, in an overall assessment, but I didn't notice much evolution in any of them. They limited themselves to re-editing what they had already done. More interesting is the way Gemma Jones handled the challenges her character brought her this time around, as she was the central figure in one of the film's most important sub-plots. Technically, the film has very similar production values and visual style to its direct predecessor. Very British in its style, it's visually unpretentious but elegant and has good editing and good filming locations, sets and costumes. The soundtrack is nothing particularly remarkable.

Its so sad that this wound up being the sequel to one of the best romantic comedies ever made. The Edge of Reason simply recycles the best bits of the original film and itself has no originality. The book it is based on is actually funnier than the original, which means this film should have been just as good if not better. For shame.

Its just a bit weird and stressfull comedy is disapointing and is also similar as the first one also disapointed me but not as much as this one. Def think I am giving up on this series now.

Uttterly stupid! It was a real disappointment! ...so now, Bridget is the girl that everybody loves, hot, successful, smar guys and also intelligent, gorgeous, successful lesbians? Really? I mean....should I say much more? I have no intentions to watch it never again! To me is a real 0 and not because it is a sequel- I am always tolerant with sequels-but because the whole story is silly, ridiculously boring, and feels forced! Bridget is worse than ever! Unfortunatley they have destroyed all the attractiveness that Hugh Grant's character used to have, they made him little less than **** he was the best character of the first movie! If you can avoid watching it, but if you are curious watch it, and if you like it-I don't think you will- then good on you!