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The sad thing is some terrific independent films are struggling to be released wide right now. This is a great example of a film being made because of star power and the need to make money, regardless of whether it was good or funny. By the time we get to an excruciatingly long and unfunny prison sequence featuring yet another sorry moment that tries desperately to be funny - a chorus of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" - this film has gone so way off the tracks, there's no hope of it ever getting back on. This film is devoid of any novelty or humor. I don't know if the theater was to blame for this problem, but I suppose it was a blessing in disguise given how insipid much of the dialogue is. During two scenes - at the Bangkok airport and an idiotic fight scene in a fountain - the music was so loud, it completely drowned out the dialogue.
#SYNOPSIS BRIDGET JONES EDGE OF REASON MOVIE#
This utterly unnecessary movie seems, at times, like an extended music video. Every joke is telegraphed or straining to be funny. They never find the right tone even once. It took four writers - Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis and Adam Brooks - to write the drivel for this movie. Yet, they applauded at the end, as if they'd just discovered their anthem film. At the screening I attended, I sat next to four women who did not laugh - heck, I didn't hear even a chuckle from them throughout the entire film. The idea of laughing at a large, buxom lass while she pratfalls her way through a horrendous film must strike a chord with some women. Unfortunately, Zellweger's shtick is barely amusing and gets tiresome very quickly. With nothing genuinely funny to fall back on, director Beeban Kidron gets Zellweger to simply waddle about the place trying to eke laughs out of us. She's lost any semblance of intelligence. She's game, but gives quite possibly the worst performance of her career. The film relies completely on Zellweger's star power. You know this film's in trouble when Grant simply slums it as a rake and Firth sputters about as if he's wondering how on earth he wound up agreeing to make this horrible picture. Although again based on Helen Fielding's novel, this has none of the original's wit or zip.Īlthough the sequel begins only four weeks after the original ended, Bridget, Darcy and Daniel have become caricatures of themselves. I don't know if they're wholly to blame - they're stuck in a dud. The sequel squanders a tremendously talented cast, none of whom seems to have a clue what to do. Daniel (Grant) was delightfully caddish, Darcy (Firth) properly funny. She was plucky, resilient, but never a fool. Bridget (Zellweger) was normal, as were her dilemmas and crises. The 2001 original was funny and charming. Not when they've deluded themselves into believing that merely bringing back Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and a few others would automatically make the sequel funny, too.
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Reviewed by anhedonia 1 / 10 Bridget Jones goes beyond the edge of reason into sheer stupidity and boredomīut the makers of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" don't bother with such trivial matters. All I do know is that it was cute, it was funny and it was entertaining. Could it be because Bridget is still Everywoman and because Mark Darcy is still the Perfect Man (and probably because he's still played by the ever-dishy Colin Firth)? Given that I've complained about several aspects of this film, I'm still rather surprised that I liked it. It's a shame, too, because I liked that particular subplot in both Austen's "Persuasion" and Fielding's "Edge of Reason." The character of Giles Benwick is based on an Austen character named Benwick who has recently lost his fiancée, but that is the only Austen reference from the book left. "The Edge of Reason" was not-so-loosely based on another Jane Austen novel, "Persuasion," but any overt Austen references are completely wiped out here. The first book was not-so-loosely based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The first movie left a lot of that in, and even included a lot of "inside jokes" for those of us who are familiar with that delightful book and the filmed version starring Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy. It's hard to put my finger on why - because I'm not quite sure why some of the book's original plot lines were ommitted, and because I thought the Rebecca subplot was gratuitous - but I did like it. The first movie was better.īut, oddly enough, I still liked this version of The Edge of Reason. Reviewed by Julie-30 7 / 10 The book was better.