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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

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Reviews Counted:146

Fresh:38

Rotten:108

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: Edge of Reason is a predictable continuation to the Bridget Jones story, with too much slapstick and silliness.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Nov 19, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $40,203,020

Synopsis: Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason stars Oscar® winner Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth all reprising the roles they originated in Bridget Jones's Diary. In this... Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason stars Oscar® winner Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth all reprising the roles they originated in Bridget Jones's Diary. In this follow-up to the worldwide hit, we find Bridget where we left her--blissful and besotted in the arms of gorgeous lawyer Mark Darcy (Firth). Mark is accomplished, supportive and tolerant of (nearly) all of Bridget's tiny jealousies--why wouldn't every woman in London, including Mark's new long-legged, drop-dead, "I-always-say-the-right-thing-at-all-times" intern, want to lure him away from the plumpish, opinionated, sometimes inappropriate Bridget? With the entry of the leggy threat, Bridget's pink clouds begin to turn gray as her attacks of self-doubt sorely test her relationship with Darcy. And just when it seems that the waters couldn't get any more choppy, Bridget's former boss, womanizing heartthrob Daniel Cleaver (Grant), sails into view. Ms. Jones careens from embarrassing situation to romantic misunderstanding, still managing to muddle through in this continuation of the trials and tribulations of the working woman who has become the symbolic heroine of 'singletons' everywhere. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason provides a hilarious and touching look at the answer to the question, "What happens after the happy ending?" Based on author Helen Fielding's best-selling novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the film stars Renée Zellweger (returning to the role that earned her first Oscar® nomination), Hugh Grant and Colin Firth all under the direction of Beeban Kidron from a screenplay written by Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis and Adam Brooks. It is produced by Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Jonathan Cavendish; it also stars Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Jacinda Barrett, Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips, James Callis, Jessica Stephenson, Celia Imrie and Neil Pearson. Debra Hayward and Liza Chasin serve as executive producers. The film was shot on location in London, Thailand and Austria. [More]

Starring: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones

Starring: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie, Jacinda Barrett, James Callis, Shirley Henderson

Director: Beeban Kidron

Director: Beeban Kidron
Screenwriter: Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis, Adam Brooks
Producer: Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish, Tim Bevan
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Bridget may not have you on the edge of your seat but there are moments you might be under it - laughing.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
11/12/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

While no film that includes Zellweger, Grant and Firth in its cast could be a complete waste of time, 'Reason' wanders dangerously close to the edge of tedium.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
11/12/04
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

It goes for many more cheap laughs than its predecessor, but it gets them pretty consistently and a few instances result in big, hearty belly laughs.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
11/12/04
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Not only does it rehash the original's elements, its story is one of the most unimaginative I've seen.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
11/11/04
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Renee Zellweger returns for a been-there, done-that sequel that's content to be more of the same.

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
11/11/04
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

Ultimately The Edge of Reason succeeds as a watered-down version of the first film.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
11/11/04
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

[N]othing but a celebration of women-as-morons, aren’t-they-cute?...

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
11/11/04
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
11/11/04
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Much like Bridget’s beloved cigarettes, Edge of Reason isn’t terribly good for you, but it’s pretty delightful while it lasts.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
11/11/04
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

In other words, this is pretty much the same movie as the first, but both the heroine and her story have lost a good deal of their charm.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
11/11/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

It’s all enough to make me wish somebody would cue up an Aretha Frankin song and make a joke about Bridget’s big underpants. Oh, wait…there they both are. Again.

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
11/11/04
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

Several of the movie's farcical moments feel forced and strained.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
11/11/04
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

Renee Zellweger is as annoying as she's pudgy in this one.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
11/11/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Why, in other words, should we care about this woman, when the filmmakers obviously do not?

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
11/11/04
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News
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We know she's ridiculous. She knows she's ridiculous. It's just too bad she can't wear it more proudly.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
11/11/04
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Are women really as shallow as [this film] would have us believe?

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
11/11/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

Fielding, along with co-writers Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis and Adam Brooks, has turned what I can only believe were Bridget's charmingly human imperfections on the page into a lump of schoolgirl-style boy-craziness and corrosive self-loathing.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/11/04
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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While the Bridget of the 2001 original was a vaguely identifiable human being with very real problems, the new Bridget has become a gross caricature of her former self: a goofball who stumbles around the set like all Three Stooges rolled into one.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
11/11/04
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is amusing but never groundbreaking.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/11/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary makes the first movie look like a masterpiece.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
11/11/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
 
 
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