Renee Zellweger reunites with previous loves Hugh Grant and Colin Firth together with new additions Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.
Plot: After leaping again into the relationship pool, single mom Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a youthful man and her son’s science trainer.
Overview: Again in 2001, there was some slight controversy surrounding Renee Zellweger being forged because the frumpy, chubby character of Bridget Jones. Identified for her svelte physique, the kilos Zellweger gained for the function within the adaptation of the Helen Fielding novel was simply the correct amount to make the romantic comedy co-starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth a success with critics and audiences. The sequels, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Purpose and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child, introduced in lower than their predecessor on the field workplace, with the second movie lambasted by critics. The most recent entry within the collection, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, has arrived on to Peacock with a world theatrical launch slated for outdoor of North America. Bringing again forged from the three earlier movies, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy harnesses the real humor within the day-to-day lifetime of the title character, who now contends with parental challenges, center age, and the lack of her husband.
Crash course on Bridget Jones: within the first movie, she is a e-book writer with a contentious romance with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) whereas partaking in a extra sexual fling with Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). By the movie’s finish, Bridget and Mark are a pair. Within the sequel, Bridget and Mark stay collectively however break up when she suspects he has eyes for an additional girl. Whereas Daniel reenters her life, the love triangle ends with Bridget and Mark collectively. The third movie finds Mark married to a different girl, Daniel, presumed lifeless after a airplane crash, and a brand new fling with an American, Jack (Patrick Dempsey), and one with Mark that ends in Bridget’s being pregnant. That movie ended with Mark and Bridget getting married and Daniel being discovered alive. Bridget’s family and friends stay key all through the movie as she narrates her diary entries with profanity and caustic opinions. At first of Mad In regards to the Boy, Mark has been lifeless for 4 years after a humanitarian assist bombing within the Sudan, leaving Bridget to boost William and Mabel as a single mom and widow.
Within the new movie, Bridget has stopped writing in her journal, not works, and is at her wit’s finish managing two rambunctious however candy children. On the anniversary of Mark’s demise, Bridget’s associates encourage her to get again out and begin relationship whereas her physician (Emma Thompson) pushes her to return to work. Bridget takes the recommendation and hires Chloe (Nico Parker), a lovely younger nanny, as she tries to restart her life. Whereas out with the children, Bridget meets Roxster (Leo Woodall), a good-looking younger park worker with whom she begins flirting by way of textual content. Twenty-five years later, Bridget remains to be shy, and people round her encourage her to start out a relationship with Roxster. Bridget does so whereas additionally discovering an adversarial but flirty dynamic with Mr. Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the brand new science trainer at her youngsters’s faculty. Reinvigorated, Bridget begins working as a tv producer together with her pal Miranda (Sarah Solemani) and begins writing in her journal once more.
The romance between Bridget and Roxster is cute regardless of the age hole between the characters, however at no level does it really feel like it can final. Leo Woodall has lent stable performances to characters in The White Lotus and the AppleTV+ collection Prime Goal. Nonetheless, he seems like a plot system to facilitate intercourse jokes and enhance the chemistry between Bridget and Mr. Wallaker. The movie brings again legacy forged like Jim Broadbent, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson, James Callis, and Gemma Jones to pad out Bridget’s world. Nonetheless, the brand new additions, together with Leila Farzad and a short cameo from Isla Fisher, assist inhabit this new story. Hugh Grant pops out and in of the story extra as a well-known face relatively than a key factor to the story. Colin Firth’s dialogue-free appearances do probably the most to spice up the movie’s sentimentality in the correct path. General, this movie is Renee Zellweger’s showcase as she falls proper again into the foul-mouthed sweetness of Bridget Jones.
Directed by Michael Morris, taking up for Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy relies on Helen Fielding’s novel of the identical title whereas incorporating components from the third movie, which was an unique screenplay not primarily based on one of many novels. The primary movie was written by Fielding alongside esteemed writers Andrew Davies (Delight and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth) and Richard Curtis (Love Really). That trio partnered with Adam Brooks on the second movie, whereas Fielding teamed with Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson on the third. Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy was written by Fielding, Mazer, and acclaimed British tv author Abi Morgan. The script may be very humorous and captures Fielding’s imaginative and prescient of Bridget Jones whereas increasing away from simply being about intercourse and relationship to present us a heartfelt story a few girl 20 years later than we first met, coping with the lack of the love of her life. This movie doesn’t diminish Colin Firth’s character within the least however reveals that demise doesn’t imply the top of the lifetime of those that felt that loss. It’s a well-made story that Zellweger is even higher than she was twenty years in the past.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy spends a lot time with the title character pursuing a younger, scorching man that it sometimes feels prefer it caters to the middle-aged viewers who grew up with the unique movie relatively than sticking with the real components introduced by the remainder of the movie. This movie clearly doesn’t goal my demographic. Nonetheless, I nonetheless discovered quite a bit to take pleasure in within the film, particularly with Renee Zellweger’s nice efficiency, which feels real, life like, and really humorous. I do want they’d spent extra time constructing the connection between Bridget and Mr. Wallaker than they did. Nonetheless, the callbacks to characters, occasions, and props from the three prior movies give followers of the collection quite a bit to search for and dig into, with nice supporting turns from your complete ensemble. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is an ideal rom-com that needs to be taking part in on the massive display screen this weekend as a substitute of on Peacock, however I’ve little question many {couples} might be streaming this from residence on Valentine’s Day.
