Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5050582310641 Format: Anamorphic Label: Universal Pictures Video Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Pictures Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-07-03 Running Time: 108 Studio: Universal Pictures Video Theatrical Release Date: 2004-11-19
Although it's been three years since we last saw Bridget (Renée Zellweger), only a few weeks have passed in her world. She is, as you'll remember, no longer a "singleton," having snagged stuffy but gallant Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at the end of the 2001 film. Now she's fallen deeply in love and out of her neurotic mind with paranoia: Is Mark cheating on her with that slim, bright young thing from the law office? Will the reappearance of dashing cad Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) further spell the end of her self-confidence when they're shoved off to Thailand together for a TV travel story? If such questions also seem pressing to you, this sequel will be fairly painless, but you shouldn't expect anything fresh. Director Beeban Kidron and her screenwriters--all four of them!--are content to sink matters into slapstick, with chunky Zellweger (who's unflatteringly photographed) the literal butt of all jokes. Though the star still has her charms, and some of Bridget's social gaffes are amusing, the film is mired in low comedy--a sequence in a Thai women's prison is more offensive than outrageous--with only Grant's rakish mischief to pull it out of the swamp. --Steve Wiecking
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: I so wanted to like it; but I couldn't. Comment: Unfortunately, this is miles away from being as good as the books or the first film. They changed the plot so they could shoe-horn Hugh Grant into the film (and a not very good fight scene with Colin Firth as well). But so much worse is the sense that Bridget has been made into a figure of fun, rather than someone who was funny because we related to her. Not funny, not romantic, even Colin Firth is less lovely in this film. Customer Rating: Summary: So-so Sequel to a Fantastic Movie Comment: The sequel to Bridget Jone's Diary was pretty average. Close to disappointing; could have been better. It got a really annoying in the middle, especially the chapter when Renee and Hugh's characters were in Thailand. I didn't particular enjoy the part where "Bridget" (Renee) was "teaching" other Thai women to sing english song in the Thai prison. Come on! I find the scene to be annoying and condescending.
Colin Firth looked like he didn't want to be in the movie! His acting was quite wooden, and he looked constipated and sour most of the time. Hugh Grant is his usual annoying-self. Renee looks great being Bridget, a plus-size version of herself, but after a while, her performance was wearing thin too.
I just hope they don't do another Bridget Jones sequel. Customer Rating: Summary: Ker-ching! Comment: Vapid follow up to cash in on the amusing hit BJ's Diary. Renee's character has completely lost her charm and yet is improbably pursued by her two handsome leading men. At some point you start to think this as unlikely as a Mr Bean movie where he's having to fight off Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts. Less rom-com more rom-con. Customer Rating: Summary: Pleasant-enough sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary" Comment: Pleasant-enough sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary" has Renee Zellweger completely at ease in her return to role as chipper go-getter Bridget Jones. Here she's still being bothered by egocentric jerk Hugh Grant while tremulous over relationship with Colin Firth. The presentation is colorful and yet just a bit heavy, with some scenes going on too long and several encumbered by an effects-enhanced prettiness which occasionally seems like overreaching. Grant, in what is essentially a cameo, is annoying and gratuitous, but Renee is quite fun to watch, and the movie has a few funny tricks up its sleeve. The constant degrading of Bridget, however, is a running joke that doesn't always work, but the finale is certainly worth a smile Customer Rating: Summary: A disappointment.... Comment: The adaptation of the Edge of Reason was not good enough for me.
As mentionned by some, it is poor romantic comedy. I liked the first one: Bridget Jone's Diary (book & film) but I thought the second one was too much (film).
You just feel it is more commercial than anything else and not very imaginative. It's just a reheating of the first one, (nearly) a bad copy.
Especially with the parachuting (firestation equivalent).
And the best bits of the book were left out. You only see the "unfunny" ones. Helen Fielding deserves better, I think.
Stick with Bridget Jone's diary (first one) which is good. And buy the book of The Edge of Reason (far better)
![Bridget Jones 2: The Edge of Reason [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M13BKE7PL._SL160_.jpg)
