The narrative moves forward in episodic fashion. After narrowly avoiding being seduced byhim, she ends up in a Thai jail, accused of drug smuggling. Her co-host is the seemingly reformed Cleaver, whoclaims to have been in sex therapy.
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The relationship splutters to a halt and Bridget (still trying to makeher mark as a serious TV journalist) is whisked off to Thailand by her bossesto present a travel show.
She makes a fool of herself at Darcy's law society dinner and remainssuspicious that he is having an affair with the leggy and glamorous RebeccaGillies. These areexacerbated during a skiing holiday during which she thinks she has fallenpregnant. He seemingly loves everything about her, even her "wobblybits." But she has simmering doubts about the relationship. She has spent several weeks as the girlfriend ofDarcy. "I've foundmy happy ending at last," she confides in her diary-style voice-over whichruns throughout the movie. Some reviews will be grudging, some male viewers might findBridget's antics on the emetic side, US viewers may be baffled by references topopular UK TV shows like Footballers'Wives, but that shouldn't affect what should be bumper business both sidesof the Atlantic.Īs the film begins, Bridget is in clover. She should certainly help WorkingTitle to exorcise the memories of a very skinny summer in which Thunderbirds nose-dived and Wimbledon double-faulted with USaudiences. In her first cinema outing, Bridget reaped a weighty $280m at the worldwide box-office.Novelist Helen Fielding's heroine seems certain to post equally fat returnswith her second foray on the big screen. The other key novelty here is that there issome foreign travel thrown in. The same characters perform the same arabesques as inSharon Maguire's Bridget Jones's Diary(2001), albeit in different order. Nonetheless, it occasionally seems as if we're watching aremake, not a sequel.
She is fedplenty of witty and acerbic one-liners by a high-powered screenwriting team.Hugh Grant effectively reprises his role as the womanising cad, Daniel Cleaver,while Colin Firth looks as tousled and soulful as ever playing handsome butuptight lawyer, Darcy, the love of Bridget's life. Renee Zelwegger again excels as the podgy,thirtysomething London singleton with the ineffably messy love life. Bridget Jones is back, as fretful and neurotic as ever,in an expertly crafted (if rather soulless) sequel which is likely to hit allthe right buttons for Working Title.
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