Bridget may not have you on the edge of your seat but there are moments you might be under it - laughing.
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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Reviews for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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.
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.
Not only does it rehash the original's elements, its story is one of the most unimaginative I've seen.
Renee Zellweger returns for a been-there, done-that sequel that's content to be more of the same.
Ultimately The Edge of Reason succeeds as a watered-down version of the first film.
Much like Bridget’s beloved cigarettes, Edge of Reason isn’t terribly good for you, but it’s pretty delightful while it lasts.
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.
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.
Why, in other words, should we care about this woman, when the filmmakers obviously do not?
We know she's ridiculous. She knows she's ridiculous. It's just too bad she can't wear it more proudly.
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.
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.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is amusing but never groundbreaking.
The sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary makes the first movie look like a masterpiece.
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