Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Directed by Sharon Maguire
After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.
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…paternity plot involving two possible baby daddies—returnee Colin Firth and Yank newcomer Patrick “McDreamy” Dempsey—would fail to reprise the relatable yet distinctly screwball essence that so delightfully informed “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
And while it unabashedly leans into its chick-flick nature, returning director Sharon Maguire — who helmed 2001’s franchise-starter Bridget Jones’s Diary — manages to craft the strongest and funniest film of the series.
Directed by Sharon Maguire (who helmed Bridget Jones’s Diary), the feature tries too hard to wring comedy out of Bridget’s personal failings (and there are many).
Looking back, it’s amusing to think that the casting of the very American Renée Zellweger as author Helen Fielding’s British heroine was such a bone of contention for fans when Bridget Jones’s Diary was released in 2001.
That’s likely due to the fact that Sharon Maguire, who directed the practically perfect “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” is back (Beeban Kidron directed the second), working from a script from author Helen Fielding, Emma Thompson (very funny as an unamused doctor) and Dan Mazer.
The second film didn’t fare much better with Adam Brooks (writer of Practical Magic ) being thrown into the trio.
Also returning is Colin Firth (2016's " Bridget Jones's Baby ") as the thought-dead Harry Hart; Firth is welcome no matter the role, but what is done with his character (both in regard to his means of resurrection and his journey back to being the man he once was) is one of the main culprits in slowing down the second act.
Teaming up with Whiskey (Pedro Pascal, TV’s Narcos) and overseen by Ginger Ale (Halle Berry, Extant), Tequila (Channing Tatum, Logan Lucky) and Champagne (Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water), they have to find who targeted Kingsman, what is causing the mysterious #bluerash, and why Harry (Colin Firth, Bridget Jones’s Baby), now minus an eye, can’t remember them.
As for Sheeran, he’s undoubtedly a good sport, but as he previously showed in “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” his acting ability is somewhat limited.