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Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Widescreen Edition) (2004)

I Wish I'd Seen This at the Theater.

Unfortunately, someone whose opinion I should never have trusted under any circumstance talked me out of it. I finally got the chance to see the sequel to our heroin Bridget's (Renee Zellweger) adventures. I have to say, although the first movie was a lot of fun, this one is just a bit better. Wow, two sequels in one year, and that almost never happens. Just like the Princess Diaries movies, Bridget is clumsy and often finds herself in one outrageously funny mishap after another without really trying and, unfortunately, taking someone else with her--usually her boyfriend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--when she falls. Still, in the middle of all her blunders, she is lovable and endearing because most women can see some aspect of ourselves in that character.

Bridget is overweight and insecure, often wearing the wrong thing at the wrong time (terrible gold dress and even worse skiing outfit), and saying the wrong things at inappropriate times too (gushing on the phone to Mark about great sex while he's in a business meeting!). There is also a lot of slapstick going on with unsuccessful boyfriend spying and a bungled attempt at skiing which goes a bit too far and falls short of being as funny as it could be.

Bridget and Mark are having some relationship problems. She doesn't think she's good enough for him and the beautiful co-worker who always seems to show up only emphasizes the problem. This is understandable when you're sure you have too much of a good thing and your self-esteem isn't quite where others' seems to be. Naturally, this provides the opportunity for Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) to slither his way back into her life and convince her to do a television spot promoting Thailand. He convinces her, just like in the first movie, that he's changed, but he's just as slimey and underhanded a lecherous schemer as before. When her friend's young boyfriend smuggles drugs inside a souvenir and Bridget gets thrown into jail, we finally see just how dispicable Daniel really is as he turns his back on her, and just how much Mark really loves her by doing everything he can to get her released. Bridget also realizes, thanks to her fellow inmates, that compared to what some of them have been through with their men, she has a pretty great boyfriend after all. The scene where the inmates are all singing "Like a Virgin" is very funny, and also makes you wonder if that's what people resort to out of boredom when they're locked up for so many hours.

Unfortunately, things get wrapped up just a bit too neatly in the end but, hey, I was laughing several times throughout the movie and Bridget had me rooting for her all the way through, even when she occasionally made me want to scream with some of her silly stunts. Let's face it, though; that feeling of ineptness can promote the silliest behavior in a woman who feels she doesn't quite measure up, yet Bridget never lets that stop her for two seconds in her pursuit of happiness. And happiness is exactly what every Bridget deserves.

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