Her friends now all having settled down and had children - even the once feckless Shazzer ( Sally Phillips, pictured above with Zellweger) - Bridget also has a new set of younger friends from work, chief among them Miranda ( Sarah Solemani, doing a winning turn as the news anchor on the show Bridget produces). The absence of Cleaver, meanwhile, creates a vacancy for a love rival. In walks Mark ( Colin Firth), with his soon-to-be ex-wife, which under the rules of romcom means that he and Bridget will, of course, bump bodies soon enough. We move swiftly from Bridget's flat and workplace to a scene which explains the absence of bad boy and occasional love interest Daniel Cleaver ( Hugh Grant, here in photographic form only), once memorably described as a “deceitful, sexist, disgusting specimen of humanity”. Those who found the original incarnation of the ditsy and dithering Bridget in Fielding's newspaper column tiresome (however much she defined the zeitgeist, or however brilliantly it spoofed feminism and the media) will love this version of her – happy in her skin, and played again with winning luminosity by Renée Zellweger.Įnough of the meta-criticism, because this is a very entertaining film – and new fans can start here, even if there are some cracking in-jokes that can be fully appreciated only if you have seen the previous two movies. In this world, the wedding to the dreamy but uptight Mark never happened, she no longer smokes, nor is obsessed with counting calories, and she has a responsible job in television, where she is a news producer.
OPENING SCENES OF BRIDGET JONES EDGE OF REASON MOVIE
Well forget all that, because Sharon Maguire (who directed the original movie Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001) is back as director and this is probably the sequel that had been planned all along, and it certainly makes more sense. Didn't Mark Darcy, the love of her life, propose to her in the second film, or isn't she his widow in that book? It begins with Bridget, single and childless at 43, sitting alone in her flat on her birthday, with a glass of wine and a cake with a single candle, singing along to “All By Myself”.
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