Charming
comedy will win you over Chris Jancelewicz | Global News Canada – September 16, 2016 It’s been 15 years since Bridget Jones’s
Diary, and my, how some things have changed. Bridget
(portrayed by Renée
Zellweger, as only she can) finds herself childless and single – again
– but now she’s feeling pressure from her mother and society in
general to procreate, or at the very least find a partner in life. Her
friends, for the most part, are gone too, with families and kids of their
own who allow for last-minute text bailing. After
staring at a 43rd birthday cupcake while alone in her apartment, Bridget
hits her limit with the solitude and heads to a music festival with her
friend. After some raucousness with a well-known young musician (no
spoilers!), she unknowingly meets billionaire Jack (Patrick Dempsey) and
the two have a one-night stand. Then,
as coincidence would have it, while at a christening for her godchild, the
uptight-yet-lovable Mr. Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) turns out to be –
surprise, surprise – the godfather. They’re thrust back together and
after some drinks and flirting, they, too, sleep together. As
you’ve probably gleaned from the trailer and the very title of the
movie, Bridget gets pregnant, but doesn’t know which man is the father.
You spend the rest of the film switching back and forth between Jack and
Mark, right along with Bridget. This
movie is obviously for women, right?
Can
a man enjoy this film too?
Is
there more to this film than Bridget’s love life and pregnancy? Thankfully,
yes. The subplot of a newsroom trying to adjust to the modern era
(read: millennials in the workforce) actually delivers some of the
film’s funniest laughs. A tribe of young men with man-buns, along with a
few women who want to publish stories about “cats who look like
Hitler” instead of hard news, invades the newsroom and sends Bridget and
her colleagues into a tailspin. Watching them battle the young ones is so
hilariously spot-on it’s actually a tad scary. Are
there inside jokes? So
what’s the bottom line?
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