Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Tags: absurd, comedy, psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
The film begins shortly before Bridget's mother's (Gemma Jones) annual Turkey Curry Buffet. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is ecstatic about her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). However, Bridget's confidence in her relationship is shattered when she meets Mark's colleague, the beautiful Rebecca Gillies (Jacinda Barrett). Bridget meets her ex, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), at her job for Sit-Up Britain and is offered a position as the "Smooth Guidess". Bridget initially refuses, declaring that Daniel Cleaver a "deceitful, sexist, disgusting specimen of humanity". Bridget is delighted when Mark invites her to the "Law Council Dinner", assuming he will propose afterwards, but the night does not end well.
After the "Law Council Dinner", Mark and Bridget have an argument and she walks away from him. Mark goes to Bridget's apartment, apologizes, and tells her he loves her for the first time. Later in the night, Mark asks Bridget if she'd like to go on a ski holiday in Vorarlberg, Austria. Once on the slopes, she learns Rebecca recommended the vacation spot to Mark. While on the holiday, Bridget thinks she's pregnant; after an argument concerning the future of children, the pregnancy test proves negative. After they return home, Bridget and Mark have lunch with both of their parents. When the subject of marriage comes up during conversation, Bridget is hurt by Mark's comment that it's not something they're even thinking about yet.
Bridget hears a message from Rebecca and discusses the message with one of her alleged "friends", who advises Bridget that if Mark says "I refuse to dignify that question with an answer", then you know he's having an affair. Bridget, hearing that answer, breaks up with Mark and goes with Daniel to Thailand to film "The Smooth Guide" with her friend, Shazzer (Sally Phillips). Bridget and Daniel flirt in Thailand. Bridget loses faith in Daniel again when she is in a hotel room and notices that a Thai prostitute has arrived for him. Daniel later says that the "gorgeous Thai girl" was revealed to be a "gorgeous Thai boy".
While packing up for their trip back home, Shazzer asks Bridget to put Jed's (Paul Nicholls) gift in her bag. Bridget is arrested and sent to a Thai prison after airport security-dogs detect a large stash of cocaine inside the gift. In prison, Bridget spends her time sharing relationship stories with the inmates and teaching them Madonna's "Like a Virgin". Mark arrives to tell Bridget that his superiors have sent him to put her release in motion. Bridget identifies Jed in a picture as the man who gave Shazzer the hidden cocaine. Mark walks away after clearly stating that he was just the messenger and declaring that her sex life does not interest him. In Britain, Mark confronts Daniel for not helping Bridget when she was arrested, and they start a fight outside a museum. Eventually, Daniel swears off Bridget for good and sarcastically suggests that Mark "just marry her".
Bridget arrives at Heathrow Airport as an international human-rights celebrity. She is greeted by her parents, who have been busy planning their vow renewal ceremony. At home, she is surprised by her friends, who inform her that Mark personally tracked down Jed and forced him into custody in order to free her, in the process stirring into action the British Government, MI5, Interpol and many other diplomatic big-wigs. Hopeful that he still loves her, she runs to his house. She finds Rebecca there and assumes that there is a romantic relationship between Mark and her. Rebecca reveals that she is not seeking an affair with Mark; she is instead infatuated with Bridget, who is flattered, but politely turns her down.
Bridget confronts Mark at his legal chambers and asks him to take her back. Mark proposes to Bridget and she accepts. The film ends with Bridget's parents renewing their vows and Bridget catching the bouquet.

Review: It doesn't even look like they bothered to send Renee to makeup or wardrobe  she (as Bridget) was pleasantly plump in the first film, but never dowdy.
And the movie makes it seem like Mark is at that point  never tries to change Bridget, never gets angry and her constant mishaps amuse more than annoy.
Note to filmmakers: dirty has to actually BE funny to be funny.This feels like a movie about a woman made by men who think wet clothes, girl-on-girl action and butt close-ups get it done.
However, this movie was frankly ridiculous.My problem with the film in main was that the character of Bridget was over-parodied.
They have nothing in common, the reason they break up at the beginning is not believable in any way, and the reasons they reunite are just as difficult to comprehend.I also felt that the characterisations were not as layered as in the first movie, and the stupid lesbian twist didn't seem to make any sense.It is a shame that they were so close yet so far with this new film, because in a way it negates the success and hilarity of the first one, which was a classic, intelligent portrayal of a 30-something singleton looking for her man.
First rule of comedy: Be funny.But the makers of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" don't bother with such trivial matters.
Not when they've deluded themselves into believing that merely bringing back Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and a few others would automatically make the sequel funny, too.
By the time we get to an excruciatingly long and unfunny prison sequence featuring yet another sorry moment that tries desperately to be funny - a chorus of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" - this film has gone so way off the tracks, there's no hope of it ever getting back on.
"Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" is lousy storytelling, rotten acting and awful film-making..
The first book was not-so-loosely based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The first movie left a lot of that in, and even included a lot of "inside jokes" for those of us who are familiar with that delightful book and the filmed version starring Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Then some time later, Bridget accepts a dinner date with Daniel, and even buys condoms "just in case." He comes to Bridget's flat and makes a pass at her before Bridget comes to her senses and throws him out.Granted, they expanded Daniel's role quite a bit for the film, but I happen to love his sleazy charm.
(I did expect Pat Benatar's "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" to break out at any time, and was quite disappointed that they didn't choose it as background!) The fight is fantastic, and totally in context with this movie - there is a good reason for it.6) Bridget already had her happy ending in the first film, why do we need another?
But I suspect that most viewers will not be as troubled by it as I.)So yes, the movie's not perfect, and it's not everything that a die-hard Bridget Jones fan would want.
(I don't know that any movie could live up to those celestial expectations.) But it is v.g., and those who are Bridget fans will probably want to watch it many times.
Those who prefer explosions and gun shootouts should probably go elsewhere.Since this is a review, I should also mention that Renee Zellweger was better than ever as Bridget (when I read the books, I now picture her as Bridget); Colin Firth was absolutely gorgeous, of course, and managed to crack his haughty Darcy-esquire facade with melting smiles on a number of occasions; and Hugh Grant was the very portrait of a posh cad..
Just endless scenes of Bridget making a fool of herself.They always say sequels are worse than the original movie, but I've never seen one so much abysmally worse than the first..
He looks happy/sad/confused/amused/pained all at once, result; a hilarious mix of ridiculousness and good looks all for the price of one.certain bits have been missed out, which is a shame, as they would have been really funny, and other things have been changed, such as the character of Rebecca.
In the case of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, it was inevitable that the freshness and sheer pleasure of a funny, heartfelt love story of Bridget Jones's Diary, would be a hard act to top much less follow.
No Oscar nominations are forthcoming this time.Not a couple months have passed as our favorite British journalist (played with gusto by Renee Zellweger) is dating her dream beau, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth returns as a noble steed).
Just one of his story lines in Love Actually is as good as or better than anything in Edge of Reason.Perhaps the biggest problem with this film is that it is a chore to find anything truly engaging or to feel any sympathy and concern for Zellweger's character.
One person in our party watching this movie in fact called it "painful".The original Bridget Jones Diary worked very well, at least in my opinion.
i read both books shortly after the first bridget jones came out, and to say that this movie is suppose to be The Edge of Reason is selling the book short.
Of course, the movie had to have another sissy fight between Firth and Grant in the hopes of getting a laugh but is just stupid and repetitive.Overall, this movie attempts to be a romantic comedy, but turns out to be a blundering and repetitive sequel.
People will like it and it will probably make loads of money, but it wasn't for me (or most males).Anyone who has seen the first film will know the plot as it almost identical, except for some desperate seemingly tack on plot parts (including Bridget ending up in a Thai prison teaching a cell full of prisoners Madonna songs).
This worked reasonably well in the original, but surely a sequel has to be more than a rehash of a one trick pony.Zellweger is good as Bridget, just as she was in the first film (her English accent is excellent), Firth solid, but yet again it is Grant who steals the show as the gloriously smarmy, and downright seedy Daniel Cleaver.
People slagging this film off is really doing my head in!I've seen it three times, and still say (which i never say?!?!?) that it is better than the first one!people keep saying that Mark Darcy isn't as sweet in the 2nd 1...but wasn't he an arrogant arse at the beginning of the 1st film?????And there is no such thing as a happy ending in romance, and those people who think that life is a bed of roses after the rainbow need to wake up...this is reflected very well in this movie.And people complaining that the characters haven't changed!
The narrative is very shaky and the first half of the movie was one embarrassing gag after another with only a few allusions to the original book (it veered off severely at certain points and made Bridget's friends and family very periferal to the story).
Darcy never stopped caring for Bridget and he fought for her (literally) because he wanted to protect her from all of those who though he deserved better than her.Overall, this movie is uneven but good because you can identify with the characters.
Bridget Jones returns in a second and incredibly pointless installment that sees her still struggling with her boring love life.I hated this film, it had no redeeming qualities whatsoever, just a mindless, contrived and extremely painful film to watch.
Colin Firth's character was terrible, as was Bridget Jones, with Renee Zelwegger putting on a lame British accent.
But I should have stuck to my guns because any redeeming features from the first film are utterly ignored in favour of a plodding, dreadfully dreary rom-com that almost seems determined to spend its duration going absolutely nowhere.Renée Zellweger returns as the famous 30-something singleton who is now happily seeing nice-but-dull lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth again).
Writing in her new diary, she details the despair as they grow apart, her dilemma when unwelcome ex-boyfriend Daniel Cleaver (still Hugh Grant) returns and the various (should that be hilarious?) misadventures and misunderstandings that are poor Bridget's trademarks.Difficult to know where the blame lies for this unamusing mess.
Essentially a retread of the first film, "Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason" offers a frankly bizarre story that never really gets going.
So although Bridget is now happily in love, we must see her getting into more embarrassing situations (which are this time around extremely convoluted and mostly not very funny), questioning her newly acquired relationship and, of course, somehow falling for Hugh Grant yet again (in the most ridiculous and unbelievable scenario imaginable).
Without all these interesting supporting characters being antagonistic to Bridget Jones, there isn't much to watch in the movie, except Renee stumbling along saying her lines in a wishy washy script.
In London, the clumsy, fat and insecure Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is in love with the human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), but they break their commitment due to her jealousy.
Bridget travels to Thailand with Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) to shoot a show, and she gets involved in a serious international incident, and is saved by Mark.The sequel of "Bridget Jones's Diary" is very irregular and not so good as the original movie.
If the viewer watches this movie with open heart and without expectations and comparisons with "Bridget Jones's Diary", I believe he or she may like it as I did.
Guess which is which?Anyhow, I watched Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason with a very skeptical eye, feeling that all the story had been told in the first film and nothing more needed to be said.
This is like a greatest hits compilation, a movie for people who want a repeat of the first film but don't want to see the original again..
so we get encores of the unfortunate bottom close-up live on TV incident, sexually graphic phone messages being heard by all the wrong people, the fist-fight between Darcy and her treacherous ex-beau Cleaver (Hugh Grant, not nearly in the film for long enough) and even the snowman sweaters get a second showing, as if they couldn't be bothered to think of any new jokes.
It loses some of the charm of the book due to time constraints (and the fact you can't very well have Bridget interview one of the stars of the movie as himself - Colin Firth).
Regurgitating amusing moments from the original does not an entertainment make, yet the audience must once more endure repeated backside-to-camera close-ups, pointless fisticuffs between Darcy (Firth in a thankless task) and Cleaver (Grant doing his best with tired gags), and Bridget having another bad hair day.
Next time, before tampering with a perfectly good character, Renee Zellweger would be wise to read the script first.It's obvious that some potentially film-saving scenes involving Bridget's parents have been unceremoniously dumped.
Experiencing the remake of this film was much like attending Bridget Jones' mum's Christmas dinner - a rehash of predictable clichés served with good intentions.I felt like a focus group was consulted prior to story development."What were the key scenes that you liked in the first movie?"giant panties "OK, let's have more of those in the second film.
Hugh Grant made an excellent end to his film career doing this movie.
Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) also adds an effortlessly smooth comic act, and is the complete contrast of the serious top lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) as they fight metaphorically and literally for Bridget.
I realize the character of Bridgett is a bit overweight and frumpy, but Rene looked very cute I thought in the first film, whereas in this movie she just looked sloppy.
The whole Daniel Cleaver love triangle was boring the second time around and basically, like all sequels I've seen the plot was just recycled, ie; the fight scene, the misunderstanding between her and Darcy, and the inevitable reconciliation.I have one last comment about this film.
I'm complaining that the atmosphere and the attitude of the script are completely different from the original.Helen Fielding's Bridget was the average woman - not fat, but not exactly thin; not a mind genius, but not a complete idiot either; not entirely satisfied with her carrier, not confident how to keep her boyfriend or handle life, constantly making promises to herself to improve and reach perfection and you name it what else, and all at the same time she was fresh, she was funny and she was lovable!
A fat Renée Zellweger spend much of the movie being depressed, smoking and doing all sorts of wacky things that leave you wanting to gouge your eyes out (or bang your head against the wall, should you be lucky enough to sit next to one, like I was).I'm trying to find redeeming features of this film, and all I can think of is this: at least it's under 2 hours long.If you're of the male specimen, avoid it like the plague..
BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON (2004) ** Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jacinda Barrett, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent.
If there was an on-going theme of what was wrong with this movie, it was that the director neverengaged the characters the way the first film did.
The continuing gag of Darcy working and Bridget interrupting was funny the first time, but with each successive situation it lacked spark and went in the negative column for how could this man love this woman.
First off, did Bridget have more weight on her in this movie - Renee Zellweger must have loved adding every pound because it seems she is larger than ever.
which makes Bridget feel silly yet again (but who's keeping score?) Grant and Colin Firth re-stage the climactic sissy-fight from the first movie...
i can say that this is only for hardcore fans of renee zellweger and hugh grant (the best British actor in the whole f'n world) but it's worth a night of popcorns with some friends and your girlfriend that looooves goofy bridget ; ) oh and one more thing, the musical score is very goodi give it 6 out of 10.
I saw the original Bridget Jones and really enjoyed it very much, and roared with laughter and looked forward to see Edge of Reason.
Are happy endings remote for single women in their thirties?This DARLING movie will be happily enjoyed by anyone who loves the first film, Bridget Jones' Diary.
the first one was a good little comedy fresh and funny, rene was excellent in the role, but this absolutely dire sequel has the character change into a put upon whingeing charisma free dollop, and worse the film goes thru the exactly same plot twists as the first, complete with repeating same jokes and scenes.
The film has pretty much an identical plot to the first movie, the love triangle between Bridget, Colin and Hugh, but for good measure a lesbian is thrown in, with other nice surprises.
In 'Bridget Jones' Diary', she had many transitions: Falling in love, dealing with her broken heart, quitting her job and finally ending up a more confident woman.The sequel simply starts it all over again, Bridget starts off a total wreck, completely attached to her new boyfriend Mark Darcy.
Writing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason presented a major challenge for scriptwriter and director Helen Fielding: to simultaneously present two films to two entirely different audiences.
A great soundtrack and the delightful performance of Renee Zwelleger aren't good enough reasons for this "Bridget Jones" sequel: "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," the 2004 film starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as Bridget's suitors.
I'm not sure where this movie came from, because it certainly didn't come from the sequel to Bridget Jone's Diary.
I am a big fan on the Bridget Jones films.
The original Bridget Jones movie was very good, atypically witty and well acted for a film of its type.
Each scene, each theme, each joke that had made Bridget Jones' diary such an enjoyable laugh-out-loud endearing movie was painstakingly played out and enacted again in this uninspired sequel.
I really enjoyed the film however I didn't think the story was a smooth as the first Bridget movie.
Like most sequels, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" continues the gags created by its predecessor, making the gags seem old and repetitive.
I thought that this film was funnier than the first Bridget Jones, which is very unusual for a sequel.
However, I thought the book "The Edge of Reason" was funnier than "Bridget Jones's Diary".
I laughed until my sides ached when Bridget ate the magic mushroom omelette, and the fight scene between Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver was even better than in the first film.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was a wonderful escape into the world of film.
It's been so long since I saw the first, but I think this sequel was even funnier.Renee Zellweger is adorable as Bridget Jones and the role fits her like a glove.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, however, is a continuation of its original film release (somewhat like a television miniseries) where the audience gets more character, more depth, more of a storyline that builds into more complex, nuanced consequences of the continuation of the story.
In particular, like what Bridget Jones says in the beginning of this movie - what happens after they live happily everafter.
'Bridget Jones's Diary' was an immensely enjoyable film.
The comedy is too far and between and feels too much of before without any of the things that worked so well in 'Bridget Jones's' Diary'.
The movie is about it's main character Bridget Jones discovers that life with her new beau, Mark Darcy, isn't everything it's cracked up to be.