

Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 out of 4 possible stars. The site's critical consensus reads: "Though there was controversy over the choice of casting, Zellweger's Bridget Jones is a sympathetic, likable, funny character, giving this romantic comedy a lot of charm." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 66, based on 33 reviews, considered to be "generally favorable reviews". The first film received positive reviews and holds an 81% approval rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 6.9/10, based on 154 reviews. Reception Box office performance FilmĬritical and public response Film Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer & Emma Thompson

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Jonathan CavendishĪndrew Davies, Richard Curtis & Helen FieldingĪndrew Davies, Richard Curtis, Adam Brooks & Helen Fielding Things from then on go great, until she discovers that she is pregnant but the biggest twist of all, she does not know if Mark or Jack is the father of her child. As she pushes forward and works hard to find fulfilment in her life seems to do wonders until she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack Quant. Bridget Jones is struggling with her current state of life, including her break up with her love Mark Darcy. She is still on superb form Observer Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension. Bridget terminology has slipped into common parlance. Mail on Sunday Bridget is probably the most successful comic creation of this decade, the most controversial and talked-about female fictional character since Lolita. But she is far more than the patron saint of single women: she is everyman, or rather, everyperson Express Helen Fielding has created the most enchanting heroine for the millennium Jilly Cooper 'If you loved Bridget Jones's Diary, you'll love this there is no diminution of the freshness or fun, or of Fielding's underlying intelligence. Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form in the sequel. PRAISE FOR THE EDGE OF REASON Bridget Jones is no mere fictional character, she's the Spirit of the Age Evening Standard Could Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany.
Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy.
