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#BRIDGET JONES DIARY EDGE OF REASON REBECCA MOVIE#
#BRIDGET JONES DIARY EDGE OF REASON REBECCA TV#

Or course, thatвЂ™s whatвЂ™s supposed to make her endearing, an overweight, cheerfully sloppy Lucy Ricardo-like character with enough grit to cover her insecurities, but itвЂ™s overdone here. But though viewers seeking nothing more than a second helping of a single dish might be satisfied, the difficulties the writers dreamed up to send Bridget and Mark on their separate ways arenвЂ™t just unimaginative they also make him look like a hopeless doormat (both for Bridget and for Rebecca, to whose attentions he seems oblivious) and her like a ditzy nitwit.

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Before long theyвЂ™ve been coupled on a project, and heвЂ™s after her again.ДЄll of this reeks of the old adage that if youвЂ™re going to do a sequel to a movie, just make the same movie over againвЂ“which is what it seems the screenwriters (or Fielding, if the script istrue to her book) decided to do this time.

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Meanwhile that caddish charmer Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) is back, now the host of a travel show on the very TV channel where Bridget also works. First, Bridget gets jealous of MarkвЂ™s relationship with a colleague, beautiful Rebecca (Jacinda Barrett), who appears to have eyes for him, and then her middle-brow ways cause some embarrassment at a posh dinner he takes her to and they squabble splitsville soon follows. Spending a couple of hours watching the two billing and cooing like happy lovebirds would hardly be very enjoyable, so the script quickly sabotages their romance. When we last saw the dumpy, klutzy but purportedly lovable Bridget, played very broadly once again by Renee Zellweger, sheвЂ™d finally linked up with the man of her dreams, staid but handsome human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth, exhibiting superhuman patience both as a character and as an actor). It required fully four writers (including Helen Fielding, who wrote the novel on which itвЂ™s based) and six producers to come up with something that basically repeats the same romantic triangle from the first movie but, on those occasions when it does veer into new territory, goes completely off the comic rails.

Of all the pointless, unnecessary follow-ups weвЂ™ve suffered through this year, вЂњBridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonвЂќ takes the cake.

That fine actor Jim Broadbent only has six or seven lines as the heroineвЂ™s father in this sequel to вЂњBridget JonesвЂ™s Diary,вЂќ but the first one he utters will probably resonate with any man dragooned by his wife or date into going to see it.

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