bridgetjones2

Okay… so I was a little leery of this movie at first because the preview made it seem like the love
triangle had the same players, Renee Zelweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant. Right, but if that’s
the case, then nothing was really resolved in the first movie, now was it? I was glad to see that they
took the drama a little farther to give credibility to the relationship between Zelweger and Firth, and
Grant is hardly in the film at all. However, the joy of the first film was the comedic timing and
ridiculous situations. The second film took a dark turn and I’m not sure it warranted it.

Okay. The beginning is really cute, but a little slow. They did a good job illustrating that weird faze
in every relationship where the glow of being together is still there, but the humanity is coming into
it. It’s that point where you find out that the other person isn’t perfect, but you love them even more
with their imperfections. Eventually you start thinking down the line, even if it’s only hopeful… and
then you become unavoidably paranoid that something is going to go horribly wrong and the
bubble is going to burst.

Then I start to get confused. Bridget starts preparing for this big dinner type thing and convinces
herself that her beau, Firth, is going to propose. She does the whole I’m going to be Mrs....
whatever his name was and repeating every possible combination of their names. (Which is always
a little freaky to me… and I’m a girl, so I can only imagine how this looks to a guy.) Anyway, as
normal as all that sounds, they’ve only been dating for eight weeks. EIGHT WEEKS!!!
Ummmmm…After eight weeks, even if they’ve been incredible, I’m thinking about maybe telling him
my middle name and letting him drive my car. But marriage? I found that hard to grasp and I felt
no pity at all for her when Firth doesn’t propose and she get’s all upset. I actually felt for Firth who
had NO CLUE what was going on.

So they fight and make up and go skiing. While on this ski trip, Bridget thinks she might be
pregnant. Firth comes in while she’s taking the test and somehow…. They’re really happy that she
might be pregnant. Ummmm…. Let me reiterate how long they’ve been dating… EIGHT WEEKS!!!
But it’s okay because she’s not pregnant and they break up anyway and she goes on an eating
binge and starts being our adorable sarcastic miserable Bridget Jones again.

Then the movie takes on another weird turn. While working in Thailand with Hugh Grant, (who is,
as in the last one, the highlight of the movie) she gets arrested at the airport for drug smuggling
and ends up in a Thai prison. They make jokes and even do a choreographed number to Like A
Virgin, but she’s in a Thai prison. It’s not that funny.

Anyway, Firth comes to get her out and is horribly rude to her after she’s been stuck there in the THAI PRISON for a long time without any friends or a change
of clothes. She goes back to England and decides to win him back or something like that. Then, in the romantic climax, she bursts in on him while he’s working
with a ton of important people and he sits there while she makes a fool of herself and tells him how much she loves him, blah blah blah. Then, he asks if they
can step outside where he says that he loves her, proposes, and they all live happily ever after. But… wait.

There are still serious problems in this relationship. First, they fight all the time because Bridget can’t stop making a fool of herself, which I know is supposed to
be funny, but even so, it would take an especially patient man to deal with that. Colin Firth’s character is an upper-class snob who ignores her when they’re at
his big party and talks down to her when they’re in public. And then at the end, he makes her confess her love in front of everyone, but waits until they’re in
private to do the same? How is that fair? Bridget hits it on the head when she says, “You could never muster the strength to fight for me.” Great line.

I wouldn’t watch this film again, but it was amusing enough to recommend if you’re ever bored one night and it’s on. If nothing else, it’s worth it for the ridiculous
fight scene between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. It’s really hysterical. I watching British guys acting like idiots yet still being polite about it. And there’s a girl on
girl kiss for those of you who are into that.