Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Critic Reviews

The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's.Read the full review

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

A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.Read the full review

At its best at its most absurd.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

Is it the clumsy script or the switch in directors -- Beeban Kidron in for Sharon Maguire -- that has sucked out the charm of the original and replaced it with crude pratfalls and enough shag gags to stuff the next three Austin Powers movies?Read the full review

A great role becomes an unenviable chore, in which a superb comic actress finds herself trying to sell a series of unfunny comic situations by mugging and pushing with all her might. It's an unflattering spectacle for all concerned.Read the full review

Begins by repeating many gags from the previous film. Only now they feel lame and routine.Read the full review

Man, does this one make the first movie look like a masterpiece. What was Renée Zellweger thinking? It can't have been fun to put on all that weight, especially for a film as ghastly as this.Read the full review