Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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At its best at its most absurd.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
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
Begins by repeating many gags from the previous film. Only now they feel lame and routine.Read the full review
A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.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
One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton."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
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