Bridget Jones 4 overview – Renée Zellweger brings laughter and tears in sequel | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

It’s been 25 years since Bridget Jones’s Diary and Renée Zellweger is again as soon as once more sporting most likely essentially the most spectacular British accent by an American captured on movie.

The double-Oscar winner returns as her bumbling Londoner, having married Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy after he unintentionally knocked her up in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

However, tragedy has struck as Bridget has been widowed for a few years and is now a menopausal single mom with two youngsters.

Loosely tailored from screenwriter Helen Fielding’s third Bridget Jones novel, Mad About About the Boy follows our heroine embarking on an ungainly journey into courting apps (egged on by returning sidekicks like Sally Phillips’ Shazzer), as she stumbles upon Leo Woodall’s toy boy totty Roxster.

Of course, issues aren’t as easy as they appear, as Chiwetel Ejiofor’s rationalist trainer, Mr Wallaker, can also be within the sophisticated love triangle.

If that wasn’t sufficient, Hugh Grant returns as naughty womaniser Daniel Cleaver, having survived being killed off within the final movie. He could now solely be an outdated platonic pal of Bridget’s, however that doesn’t cease the outdated Casanova from edging his normal skinny line between allure and politically incorrect humour. Speaking of which, Bridget Jones movies have been a staple of British rom-com hilarity, and the ever-excellent Zellweger helms a number of stomach laughs on this feel-good and lighthearted fourthquel.

Yet it might come as a shock that Mad About the Boy can also be essentially the most emotional Bridget Jones entry up to now. Firth briefly makes a few tear-jerking cameos as Bridget and her two kids adapt to life with out husband and father. Nevertheless, the movie stays life-affirming with a hopeful and optimistic future outlook, as director Michael Morris balances the extra sentimental moments with the farcical hijinks quite nicely.

On the draw back, the film drags a bit in its overlong two-hour runtime. And though authentic director Sharon Maguire’s first and third movies stay the perfect (and funniest) general, there’s nonetheless sufficient to get pleasure from right here on this newest Brit chick flick, which is lots accessible for males as it’s for ladies this Valentine’s. And given the truth that pre-sales for this movie are greater within the UK than they had been for billion-dollar hit Barbie, we now have a sense this gained’t be the final we see of Zellweger’s nice comedian function.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is out in UK cinemas from February 13, 2024.