Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Critic Reviews
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A jolly movie and I smiled pretty much all the way through, but it doesn't shift into high with a solid thunk the way "Bridget Jones' Diary" did.Read the full review
At its best at its most absurd.Read the full review
A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.Read the full review
The Bridget Jones characters are worth revisiting. It's just too bad the story that connects them in The Edge of Reason is less fresh and clever than its predecessor.Read the full review
Second time round, Bridget is still fat, funny and endearing -- but "all a bit, um, familiar, actually."Read the full review
Yes, it is v. funny. It's just not v. clever. And clever is what made the original Bridget Jones movie such a hoot.Read the full review
The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's.Read the full review
Begins by repeating many gags from the previous film. Only now they feel lame and routine.Read the full review
Die-hard fans are advised to wait for the video. Everyone else would be better off pretending that this movie doesn't exist. In the long run, you'll have a higher opinion of everyone involved.Read the full review
When a sequel has to hit the reset button and take all its characters back to where they started, it probably didn't need to be made.Read the full review
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