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It’s been two decades back the mishap-prone but irrepressible London article at the centermost of Helen Fielding’s atypical Bridget Jones’s Diary aboriginal galumphed her way into the hearts of readers, authoritative the book a accepted best-seller. I’ll accept that I didn’t abatement for the cigarette-and-calorie-counting, marriage-fixated Bridget, at atomic not on the page; I got fed up with the heroine’s annular ambivalent about men and her actualization and never accomplished the book. But in 2001, back RenĂ©e Zellweger acquired 30 much-hyped pounds (thereby advancing to resemble article like an boilerplate animal female) to accompany Bridget to activity on awning in an adjustment directed by Sharon Maguire, I was won over by Zellweger’s full-hearted apotheosis of this assuredly abashed and self-sabotaging career girl. Bridget’s ethics and goals were conventional, yes—she aspired to the cachet of “smug married” and despaired nightly over the ambit of her thighs—but as played by Zellweger, the appearance herself was an original: Capable of airy swings amid aerated and morose, she could additionally be both a amazement adventurous and a proudly self-described “slut.”
Dana Stevens is Slate’s cine critic.
Then, too, the cine of Bridget Jones’s Diary came out in the aboriginal 2000s back Hugh Grant and Colin Firth were the adventurous arch men of the hour. (Like Bridget, audiences didn’t acknowledge how acceptable we had it.) As it angry out, Grant’s appearance was the cad and Firth’s the one accurate love, but it’s the attenuate rom-com triangle that boasts two such accurately ambrosial rivals. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, acclimatized in 2004 from Fielding’s aftereffect and directed by Beeban Kidron, alveolate the aforementioned two swains adjoin anniversary added for Bridget’s hand, catastrophe on the angel of a bent boutonniere and the able association that Bridget and Firth’s Mark would anon be altar-bound.
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Bridget Jones’s Baby, directed by the aboriginal film’s Maguire, does abroad with Grant’s character, Daniel, in active appearance by ambience an aboriginal arena at his funeral. (I’ll leave the address of Daniel’s annihilation unspoiled, back it makes for a appropriate bedraggled joke.) As she whispers affectionate memories of her ex into a friend’s ear, Bridget gradually realizes the abbey is arranged with beaten above girlfriends, all sniffling over the aforementioned exact memories. Additionally present, to Bridget’s horror, is her added ex, the long-unattainable advocate Mark Darcy (Firth), who instead of marrying Bridget allegedly connected as her on-again, off-again admirer for abounding disturbing years. He’s now with his formidably affected wife, and the three barter annealed greetings afore Bridget makes a breach for the exit.
Though she’s congenital a acknowledged career as the ambassador of a abnormally terrible-looking account appearance alleged Hard Account and alike gotten bottomward to what she tells us in voiceover is her “target weight,” Bridget has been activity stuck, lonely, and secretly anxious of her accompany with children. A adolescent aide drags her to an alfresco music festival, area Bridget apprehension up accepting a bashed cycle in the hay—or rather, in the yurt of a adult American administrator (Patrick Dempsey) whose name she’s too ashamed to ask for afore artful out of his hut on an extra-muddy morning airing of shame.
A anniversary later, at a friend’s ablution party, Bridget finds herself afresh befuddled calm with Mark. Dancing to “Gangnam Style” with a backpack of kids afterwards the festivities, she enjoins her ex to get out on the floor. Then, aloft acquirements that he’s in the action of amid from his wife, she takes off to absorb the night with him in a adjacent auberge room. You get area this is going, right? Next affair Bridget knows she’s, as she tells us in voiceover, “up the duff,” and while she’s captivated at the anticipation of a baby, she has no abstraction whether McDreamy or McDarcy is the dad.
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This all gets accustomed aboriginal on, abrogation the eyewitness with able time to counterbalance the about claim and flaws of Affluent Handsome -to-be Husband A and Affluent Handsome -to-be Husband B. Outside the apple of the Twilight novels, accept two men anytime sat about so long, affably boot their fingers, as they delay for one woman to accomplish up her mind? Appropriate up to the moment Bridget hits the commitment room—where she’s met by her dryly amusing OB-GYN (Emma Thompson, who additionally did a canyon on the able script)—she’s never after a tender, anxious abettor at anniversary elbow.
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But why does our charlatan accept to aces amid -to-be husbands at all, handsome, rich, or otherwise? There is a abrupt aeon in Bridget Jones’s Baby—the agnate of the third-act “miss you” montage so accepted in adventurous comedies—when distinct motherhood is envisaged, nonjudgmentally, as an option. (This is not a cine in which “shmashmortion” plays alike a coded role.) A subplot about Bridget’s mother (Gemma Jones) active for bounded political appointment makes the point, a tad cloyingly, that accepting a adolescent out of wedlock is far from a aspersion in an age of accretion animal and political abandon (cue attempt of ambrosial aged men kissing).
If British actors’ American accents are “bang on,” why are Americans’ British accents such rubbish?
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Still, the movie’s community can feel cluelessly awakening as the ever-dithering Bridget lurches amid one man and another. I apperceive this affectionate of blur is meant as fantasy fulfillment, but I sometimes capital to bat abroad all the looming adamant jawlines and get some faculty of how Bridget ability reimagine her activity if a dude assuming up with flowers in the cloudburst rain absolutely was bankrupt as a possibility. Then a dude showed up with flowers, and anon after the added dude alone by in the cloudburst rain, and … after abasement annihilation about which activity aisle Bridget chose, the history of the adventurous ball brand from Aristotle on bottomward makes it appealing apparent that it wasn’t distinct motherhood.
I don’t beggarly to advance that aloof because it’s now accessible to appearance women onscreen appropriately allotment lives as “singletons,” that’s the alone way they should be shown. There are affluence of people, macho and female, who do appetite aloof the blessed heteronormative activity that Bridget has spent the accomplished 15 years cat-and-mouse and acquisitive and adorably benumbed over appliance for. But anticipate about it: If you had a real-life acquaintance who’d lived Bridget’s adventure arc—a decade-and-a-half-long adventure of ping-ponging amid two abroad and generally bare men, catastrophe in an adventitious abundance by one of those two exes or possibly a accidental guy she met at a concert—would you be acclaim for her to end up with Mr. Right, or acclaim suggesting she ability try giving activity with Ms. Self a shot? There’s no acumen adventurous comedies shouldn’t be able to ask the aforementioned questions we’d ask of our best friends.
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