Tag: I Got Life

Bridget Jones’s Baby is actually about Bridget Jones at the age of 40, still not married and still trying to find the ideal man after many false starts and often hilarious mishaps on the way.

The film begins with the funeral of ex-boyfriend/philanderer, Daniel – played by Hugh Grant in previous films. His plane had crashed and he had come down in the bush. Amongst the mourners are many young women and when Bridget addresses the packed church she says,very solemnly, “Daniel has touched many of us here today”.

Fans of the Bridget Jones films will enjoy and maybe identify with her life, her many slips of the tongue, her valiant struggles against her lack of self-confidence and the many embarrassing situations she gets herself into.Which lover is the father of the expected baby?

But the big question is, will Bridget make it in the end with one of her first loves, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)?

The film is full of sympathetic humour and Renée Zellweger is as brilliant as ever as Bridget, as is the script by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson and direction by Sharon Maguire. A very enjoyable film.
(15) 2016 123 minutes. Widely available.