Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Love, Prison, Gay/Lesbian
Tagline: Same Bridget. Brand new diary.
Plot: At long last Bridget Jones (RENÉE ZELLWEGER ) – 30-something, self-doubting, self-analyzing, career-minded, calorie-counting London singleton – has found romantic bliss. For six glorious weeks (71 ecstatic shags), she has been the girlfriend of the exquisitely flawless human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (COLIN FIRTH) and nothing could be better. Or—could it? Despite Darcy’s apparent devotion, Bridget still finds herself asking questions about life, love and the proper way to put away underwear. Having finally found her man, Bridget is faced with the equally flummoxing challenge of keeping him. She can’t help but wonder: what exactly is it that comes after the happily ever after?And just as she’s starting to figure it all out, enter the competition: Darcy’s drop-dead, legs-up-to-there, never-says-the-wrong-thing new colleague. Suddenly jealousy, uncertainty and temptation – in the form of Bridget’s former boss and womanizing heart-throb Daniel Cleaver (HUGH GRANT) – threaten to upend Bridget’s dream in a comic maze of bad advice, silly mix-ups and total disasters that could only happen to
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 I finally saw ''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' and, man, does this one make the first movie look like a masterpiece.--Manohla Dargis (The New York Times)
On those rare occasions when The Edge of Reason isn't regurgitating material from Bridget Jones' Diary, it is taking ill-advised excursions into unfunny slapstick and sappy melodrama. Bridget Jones in a Thai prison? Who thought up that bit of absurdity?  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Yes, Renee Zellweger looks like a pathetic porker in this sequel to "Bridget Jones's Diary," but it's not her fault.--Charles Taylor (Salon)
...an unoriginal, repetitive collection of jokes about irrational sexual jealousy; obsessive, if futile, dieting; the tribulations of the modern office; and the fashion faux pas of the plus-size working gal, all of which is sprinkled with liberal references to sex, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and the f-word...--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)
It is precisely at the edge of reason that the filmgoer finds herself -- wondering where the world went wrong -- watching as her hapless heroine sacrifices satire for slapstick and renounces subversive self-mockery to serve herself up as the literal buttof the joke. The camera has turned cold on Bridget, and turns the viewer cold in turn.--Shari L. Rosenblum (CineScene)
If you find yourself longing for another dose of Jones, simply rent the original again and pretend it's a year later in Bridget's life. Or just get a pint of Ben & Jerry's.  --Christopher Null (FilmCritic.com)
Much better than Bridget Jones’s Diary. This is coming from someone who hated the first film, so the improvements I see are probably correcting elements that fans of the original liked, so therefore the won’t like the new version. But I did. --Fred Topel (MovieWeb)
It falls into the traps that imperil almost all movie sequels: re-staging the same key moments, over-doing the things that were subtle the first time, and re-making all the same mistakes. C+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
Serviceable sequel that isn’t quite as good as the first film but won’t disappoint fans wanting more of the same.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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| Directed by |
Beeban Kidron
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Swept from the Sea, Used People |
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| Cast |
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 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
 | Colin Firth
Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, The English Patient |
 | Hugh Grant
Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually |
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 | Gemma Jones
Bridget Jones's Diary, Sense and Sensibility, Shanghai Knights | |
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Harry Gregson-Williams
Shrek 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Kingdom of Heaven |
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"Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" should satisfy fans because of Zellweger's uninhibited performance, but hardly anybody is going to be demanding a third helping.  --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
Goes beyond the edge of not just reason, but comedy and good sense. Let's hope Bridget keeps her diary private from now on. 4/10--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
Nevertheless, Zellweger continues to prove herself game for every humiliating physical predicament. It's just hard to care about these people this time around — maybe because they're all a little less likable, or maybe because the entire experience simply feels a little too rote. C--Christy Lemire (TheJournalNews)
While it fails to match the first installment, the second succeeds in supplying ample reason for looking forward to a third. --Rick Kisonak (MovieWeb)
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