Bridget Jones's Baby
Renée Zellweger returns alongside Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey in the third instalment in the Bridget Jones franchise. Bridget Jones's Diary director Sharon Maguire also returns.
After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget's (Zellweger) "happily ever after" hasn’t quite gone according to plan. 40-something and single again, she decides to focus on her job as a top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then she meets a dashing American named Jack (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. When she finds herself pregnant, she can only be 50 percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
- Director:
- Sharon Maguire ('Bridget Jones's Diary', 'Incendiary')
- Writer:
- Helen Fielding
- Cast:
- Renée ZellwegerPatrick DempseyColin FirthJim BroadbentCelia ImrieJames CallisSally PhillipsGemma JonesEd SheeranEmma Thompson
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Leonie Hayden
flicksBridget is older. Single again. We find her awakening to a 43rd birthday, ditched by her friends and scolded for her childlessness by her mother. She faces increasing irrelevancy at her TV news producer job (as much a satire of modern media as aging-woman-in-the-workplace) and after a couple of saucy middle-aged romps with ex-flame Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and hunky one-night-stand Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), finds herself pregnant and not entirely sure of the baby’s parentage.
Bridget is still fighting her demons with intelligent hilarity and tugs on our heart-strings
Movie makers do not admit it publicly, but there have always been 'women's films' and 'men's films'. Historically, the film industry catered more to the male viewpoint by favouring action drama but in the post-feminist era the female perspective is prominent. The Bridget Jones franchise is part of the shifting cinema landscape where along with other...
Surprisingly good
Honestly, I really really enjoyed it. At some moments I was weeping with laughter. I appreciated that there was genuine character growth and Bridget wasn't as crippled with indecision and lack of confidence as in the sequel. They traipsed out the menagerie of loved characters from the franchise whilst making space for some worthwhile new friends....
Variety
pressNot a comedy for the ages, but it's interesting to see a rom-com starring a middle-aged woman grappling with irrelevance in the workplace.
Total Film
pressA warm, witty and welcome return - intelligently evolved and an absolute hoot. As Bridget would say: 'v.good'.
Time Out
pressFunny and charming. But what's missing is Hugh Grant as Daniel 'invest in lockable knickers' Cleaver.
The Guardian
pressBasically, Bridget presides over a kind of coalition government of very good supporting turns which on aggregate enforce their chaotic comic rule over the audience. Just about.
Stuff
pressWhile not all of this helter-skelter rom-com works, this is a welcome reminder of all the endearing and rip-snorting qualities of the original.
New Zealand Herald
pressShe's a breath of fresh air; a character we can relate to because we recognise a little of ourselves in her.
Little White Lies
pressIt is agreeably optimistic, faithful to the characters (if not Fielding's third novel) and very funny.
Empire Magazine
pressMore than a match for the original, the third outing for Bridget has a solid story with holes you'll forgive thanks to the much-missed onscreen magic created by a director and her leading woman.
Flicks, Leonie Hayden
flicksBridget is older. Single again. We find her awakening to a 43rd birthday, ditched by her friends and scolded for her childlessness by her mother. She faces increasing irrelevancy at her TV news producer job (as much a satire of modern media as aging-woman-in-the-workplace) and after a couple of saucy middle-aged romps with ex-flame Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and hunky one-night-stand Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), finds herself pregnant and not entirely sure of the baby’s parentage.
Variety
pressNot a comedy for the ages, but it's interesting to see a rom-com starring a middle-aged woman grappling with irrelevance in the workplace.
Total Film
pressA warm, witty and welcome return - intelligently evolved and an absolute hoot. As Bridget would say: 'v.good'.
Time Out
pressFunny and charming. But what's missing is Hugh Grant as Daniel 'invest in lockable knickers' Cleaver.
The Guardian
pressBasically, Bridget presides over a kind of coalition government of very good supporting turns which on aggregate enforce their chaotic comic rule over the audience. Just about.
Stuff
pressWhile not all of this helter-skelter rom-com works, this is a welcome reminder of all the endearing and rip-snorting qualities of the original.
New Zealand Herald
pressShe's a breath of fresh air; a character we can relate to because we recognise a little of ourselves in her.
Little White Lies
pressIt is agreeably optimistic, faithful to the characters (if not Fielding's third novel) and very funny.
Empire Magazine
pressMore than a match for the original, the third outing for Bridget has a solid story with holes you'll forgive thanks to the much-missed onscreen magic created by a director and her leading woman.
Bridget is still fighting her demons with intelligent hilarity and tugs on our heart-strings
Movie makers do not admit it publicly, but there have always been 'women's films' and 'men's films'. Historically, the film industry catered more to the male viewpoint by favouring action drama but in the post-feminist era the female perspective is prominent. The Bridget Jones franchise is part of the shifting cinema landscape where along with other...
Surprisingly good
Honestly, I really really enjoyed it. At some moments I was weeping with laughter. I appreciated that there was genuine character growth and Bridget wasn't as crippled with indecision and lack of confidence as in the sequel. They traipsed out the menagerie of loved characters from the franchise whilst making space for some worthwhile new friends....
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