Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Directed by Beeban Kidron
Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
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Writer and director Adam Brooks (who surely owes the world penance for co-writing the screenplay for "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" ) also borrows freely, nay, sluttishly, from a passel of other sources: The setup is straight out of "How I Met Your Mother," there's a bedtime story, complete with narrative interruptions, lifted from "The Princess Bride," an "I want to wake up next to you" speech reminiscent of "When Harry Met Sally," a quest for a far-flung used book that echoes the basic plot of "Serendipity."
The human being behind Definitely, Maybe is Adam Brooks, whose previous scripts (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Wimbledon, French Kiss) showed a bent for chick-flick insouciance, and who here takes on the added task of director.
Though falling a good bit short of the best of the Working Title-produced romantic comedies—like Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), About a Boy (2002) and Love Actually (2003)—Adam Brooks’ Definitely, Maybe marks a notable improvement over the company’s last two efforts, Wimbledon and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (both 2004).
In tone, writer-director Adam Brooks ("Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason") has constructed a warm and funny story that feels like the Jim-Pam romance from NBC's "The Office" writ large.
After all, he previously wrote the screenplay for two romcoms I also enjoyed: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and French Kiss.
Brooks can be credited for “French Kiss” and “Practical Magic” and blamed for “Wimbledon” and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”.
The movie is a jungle-set chase comedy that has many antecedents, from “Romancing the Stone” to “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” but really, “Snatched” is the generic version of a latter-day Paul Feig comedy — which is to say, it’s an attempt to shoehorn Amy Schumer into the action-meets-yocks-meets-sisterhood formula of movies like “The Heat” and “Spy.”
Like other contemporary Pride and Prejudice âinterpretersâ â Gurinder Chadha (Bride & Prejudice), Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jonesâ Diary) and Beeban Kidron (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) â Wright seizes on the novelâs potential for situation comedy.