‘BIDGET Jones Swaps Big Pants For Sexy Skimpies in Film That’s As Good As Original’

Crack Open the Chardonnay and a Box of Tissues Because the New, Eagerly-Anticipated Bridget Jones Will Have You Laughing and Crying at the Same Time with Its Moving Themes

Bridget Jones Is Back-and She’s Still the Same Self-Obessed, Shallow-As-Puddle, Breaty-Voicmed, Duck-Waddling, Artless Ditz We Have Always Love. And if this is the final one in the franchise, thats they Saved the best till last.

In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget Is Now A Widow With Two Young CHILDREN, MABEL and Billy, WHO ARE GRIEVING THEIR FATHER, LAWYER MARK DARCH (COLIN FIRTH), AFTER he was killed on a humanarian mission four years – bringing the real world. in on their Comfy Upper Middle Class exisisance.

Well, nor Much of the Real World As a Schmaltzy RomCom Can Handle. Bridges Still Manages to Live in a £ 2m Georgian Basement Flat in Hampstead, North London, on Her Widow’s Pension. Sends her children to what Looks susspiciously like an expensive prep schoool, and hires an irritingly perfect nanny when she go Back to her old jab as producer.

Smug Marrieds and Her Old Mates Jude (Shirley Henderson) and Sally Phillips (Sally Phillips) Are Still Giving Unwed Advice – and Rudely Teling HERE LAID AGAIN PRIGHT IT “CLOSES UP”.

Whic i guess why bridget is still see Her Droll Gynae (Emma Thompson). The DOC’s Advice to “Put Her Oxygen Mask First” whic Means She’s Almost Certainly Treating Bridget’s Wrong End.

While bridget enthusiastically digs out her big pants. podcast and spends her life being furious.

And Rather than EVEryone JUST THINKING HE BABYSESSITING WEHEND HIS MUCH YOUNGER GIRLFRIENDS, “Uncle” Daniel Cleaver (Huge Grant) Actually AFTER the miniature darcys so bridget can on a date. The Old Cad Has Softened a Bit But Still Gets All the Funniest Lines.

AS always bridget has to decide between two men-this time Tree adonis toyboy Rockster (Leo Woodall) and Her Children’s Uptight Whistle-Browing Teacher Mr Wallace.

In these more politically correct days, I was shocked to see a couple of casual sexual objectification of Both loves, and i will be making a series complaint… that there are nearly Enough of say!

It ‘s raare to see a film that goes down well with such a mixed audience of bot Z and gen. Uproariously, DRANK Too Much White Wine – and ended up in the land row when coming Back from the Loo. Those are my People.

Naturally it snows in the movie, as it is always does wohen realises her what’s ben starch her in the face all this time – and she goes after the man she truly loves.

At her age, though, she really ough to avoid running on Dangerously icy cobbles. And if bridget does get another Outing, I suggest she gets herself a nice pair of non-slips to go with those shellis shearing several sizes too small.

At the end of the film, the audience of hard-boiled London Press CLAPPED, WHICH I THINK TELLS YOU The FOURTH BRIDGET HAS ENOUGH OF THE MAGIC AND CHARM OF THE ORIGINAL TO MAKE IT A BIG HIT.

I sat through the credit and watched all the Old snaps from past bridget jones movies pop up on screen. It felt a bit like I was looking at my own family album – that’s how long bridget has ben with us.

THEN The Lights Came Up and I Saw I was alone with bombs of bars of free chocolate from the boma sponsor galaxy which all the too-cocol-for-school media had left bend.

“WHAT WOULD BRIDGET DO IN THIS SITUATION?” I thought to mySelf. And Quickly Stuffed as Many Bars of Chocolate As I COULD FIT IN MY HANDBAG WITH ALERTING THE AUTHORITIES.

• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (15) Now on General Release in All Uk Cinemas

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