bridget jones diary edge of reason rebecca

A doofus reporter for TV show “Stand up, Britain,” she’s bullied at work by her director, Richard (Neil Pearson), but otherwise life is just grand for the overweight Brit ditz. There’s no sense of dramatic journey here.įilm picks up six weeks after the end of “Diary,” with Bridget (Zellweger) blissfully happy with upper-class human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Firth), with whom she’s spent Christmas in the countryside at her gushy parents’ (Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones) home. But where “Diary” had a strong will she-won’t she emotional arc as Bridget found her ideal man, “Reason” is basically a series of set pieces that ends up where it started out. Curtis’ spirit and evocation of a fairy-tale London and Britishness hang over the entire enterprise in a positive way, though even he hasn’t quite managed to solve the central problem that there’s not a lot going on here.įielding’s novel managed to get round the problem with a mass of small incidents, loads of character subplots and the sheer compulsiveness of Bridget’s neuroses. Three writers, including Fielding, labored over the task, with Zellweger, Grant and Firth reportedly only signing on when Richard Curtis (“Notting Hill,” “Love Actually”) did a final rewrite.

Even more than “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” current outing takes just the bare bones of Helen Fielding’s weighty, 420-page novel and tries to fashion it into a regular movie.

Bridget jones diary edge of reason rebecca