After finding love, Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) questions if she really has everything she has dreamed of having.I suppose it may be part of the idea to have her be an average woman, but they really seem to go out of their way to make Renee Zellweger look unflattering here. She seems overweight (which she is not) and just sort of homely (which she is not). Again, this might have been intentional, but it is a shame.The strangest thing about this film is that it features the same three leads from the first one. You would think that after Zellweger settles with Firth, there would be no need to bring back Hugh Grant. Apparently the writers felt very differently.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a romantic comedy film based on Helen Fielding's novel of the same title. It stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones together with Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver. It is the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary.The movie was directed by Beeban Kidron.Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy, her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's life, however, quickly becomes a contradiction in terms. Though Mark is openly supportive of Bridget's numerous eccentricities,she is nonetheless threatened by Mark's young, nubile intern, not to mention irked at finding out that he is, among other less desirable qualities in her eyes, a conservative voter. Complicating issues further is the re-entrance of her ex-lover, Daniel Cleaver, whom Jones, perhaps mistakenly, thought she had finally gotten over. Before long, the situation escalates into another series of embarrassing circumstances for Bridget, who is faced once again with a crippling feeling of self- doubt and has only her diary and friends to combat it.Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is predictable continuation to the Bridget Jones' story with too much slapstick and silliness.Also,many scenes aren't funny nor is the humor presented in the movie effective for laughs.Nor is it clever or interesting.Overall,it is no longer interesting as compared to the first movie.

Plot finds Britain's favourite big bottomed, big boobed, air head, Bridget Jones, back with more troubles of the heart, career and Thailand. It's a pale shadow of the first film, even if most of the jokes and plot structure are recycled for this cash in. Sadly this time Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent as Bridget's parents are reduced to tiny cameo performances, and even Hugh Grant's sex hungry Daniel Cleaver slots into a small time scale and serves only as a set up for some same old same old. However, even tho familiarity does breed contempt, such is the strength of the comedy involving Bridget Jones, there's still enough here to raise a chuckle or two. While Zellweger is still adorable and easy to get on side with as Miss Jones, and Firth is Firth, better than this material in his sleep, but still retaining a high watchability factor as the straight backed Mark Darcy.You wouldn't want to watch this one more than once, and really you should stick with the first film, but it's just got enough about it to hit the average mark. Only just, mind. 5/10

I have decided to write this as fairly as I can after seeing so many mixed reviews going from all the way down at a dismal one to fantastically brilliant at 10. I don't see how anyone can honestly give it a 1 nor a 10 and mean it.I have always been a horror flick girl myself and Rom Com's are my worst kind of film - well that and any kind of slapstick comedy, so when I heard of the original movie (diary) I decided to give it a miss, not really my thing. However, last weekend, poorly and stuck at home, I flicked through my BT Vision package and was dismayed to find the only thing even remotely worth watching was Bridget Jones's Diary, so I stuck it on. How refreshing it turned out to be, I hated Mark Darcy for his arrogance, physically cringed at her 'fitzherbert' speech, loved Mark Darcy after his 'I like you very much...just as you are' talk, with Bridget, laughed out loud when she tapped her nose and said "he's also still deranged" in response to her mother attempting to pair her with Darcy and by the end was willing them on to finally get together.Basically I loved the movie. Bridget was refreshing, attractive despite her flaws, witty, intelligent with a few insecurities, but very able to hold her own and I almost fell in love with her myself. I could fully see what these two men (Darcy and Cleaver) were fighting over.I couldn't wait for my second helping of this movie and immediately went in search of it. I needn't have bothered. I'm not sure who the overly plump, bumbling, slightly desperate woman who appeared on my screen was, but she was no Bridget Jones. Mark Darcy had also gone from being slightly snooty but very sweet, into an emotionless, heartless guy who barely opened his mouth throughout the film. I longed for Daniel Cleaver to burst on to the scene and liven it up with his witty repertoire - it didn't happen. He'd been replaced by an overtly sexual, sleaze-bag that had lost all his charm. Bummer.Here were my major problems with the movie; 1/ it relied heavily on slapstick humour which just never sits well with me. Sure, Bridget made errors in the first movie, but most of her humour was born of her wit and great one liners, not from watching her make a total fool of herself at any given opportunity.2/ The aloofness of Mark Darcy was overdone, sure brooding is sexy, but emotionless is a total turn off. By the end of this movie I was not rooting them on, I was left feeling more like he half heartedly asked her to marry him because she happened to be there begging. Not romantic.3/ Bridgets lack of pride - suddenly this girl who craved love, yet rejected Cleaver for cheating AND stood up to Darcy when he became obnoxious - was suddenly a clinging, insecure mess. During the movie she made a comment about Darcy showing no emotion and not fighting for her, yet despite there being no change in his attitude throughout the film, by the end of the movie we saw her beg him not to dump her, then finally run to his office with declarations of love, for a man who was shown throughout the movie to be quite deeply ashamed of her.4/ The 'almost' reunion with Daniel Cleaver. Were we supposed to believe after all that happened before and her final rejection of him, that she would find herself on the brink of sex with him just months later? Really?! 5/ Rebeccas declaration - Oh please, the less said about that, the better.There are so many more things I could add, but I think I'd be here just about all night with them.I guess overall the main problems came from taking the film way off the direction that the book set it in. Sure, the book included the silly moments with the drugs in Thailand etc, but still held the people in the same regard it had in the original story - It showed Bridgets wit, Marks passion for her, their morals, characteristics and traits and well, not much of Cleaver I guess. The film showed none of those things.I'd like to add there were a couple of funny moments. I admit I did laugh out loud yet again, when sat in a salon chair the hairdresser comments how she will look fabulous, to which Bridget says 'goody' only to be shown seconds later with pink flashes and messy hair just hours before a business dinner with Mark. The film was not abysmal, it just seemed like an entirely different movie with different characters. So, in it's own right deserves a 4 (if you take it away from the original movie and pretend it didn't exist) otherwise it's a 2 for attempting to con the viewer into watching this as a believable continuance from 'Diary' I hear they may be bringing out a 3rd in which Bridget will find herself pregnant with Cleavers child. Please, no! Why cant these people see and understand that people loved the first because it was fresh, new and romantic when Bridget got her Mr Perfect. We didn't want her with Daniel in the 1st one, nor the second and we don't want it now.