‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ – Review
Everyone’s favourite modern-day woman, the unequivocally endearing Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger), is back in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, and this romantic and loveable film is a perfect treat for the girlies and makes for an incredibly tender, charming and heart-filled watch!
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he is over twenty years younger than her isn’t the only thing that is causing problems.
The chaotically charming Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) we all know and love with the previous films is back for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. This new film is about Bridget’s continued growth, and this time it’s the Motherhood Edition. Following the tragic death of her great love, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), Bridget is trying to keep it all together, which is proving hard to do while raising two young children and navigating the throws of life as a widow. But as always, love turns up in the most unexpected places for Bridget, and she sets off on a brand new romantic adventure that will leave with an equal measure of smiles and giggles.
The usual wit and fun of Bridget Jones is on full display in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, and there’s a fantastic rhythm of past nostalgia and the touch points that have made this character and her story such a treasure for so many people. Not only is Bridget’s dry sense of humour played up for laughs, but she also falls astray of some of her past vices (cigarettes anyone), and there are some cracking cameos (Isla Fisher as her feisty neighbour Rebecca), along with the presence of the great Dame Emma Thompson as Bridget’s ‘confidante’ Doctor Rawlings.
Romance always turns up in the most serendipitous of places for Bridget, and this time she’s got the attention of both the brazen Roxster (Leo Woodall) and hunky teacher Scott Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor). All of it leads to plenty of fun, and of course, it wouldn’t be a Bridget Jones movie without the presence of Hugh Grant’s scene-stealing rogue Daniel Cleaver, who is now cemented as the ‘naughty uncle’/’forever bachelor’, still can’t help but play his own hand at Bridget.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is, at its heart, a story about moving forward from grief and treasuring lost loves and is a story of how Bridget finds a way to live again – which is itself a new type of transformation for her. Through the narrative beats of the film, she learns how to navigate solo parenthood, finds a new beat to her career, and learns about the hi-jinks that come along with modern dating, and all of it makes for that perfect Galentines treat for fans!
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a perfect treat of a movie for the girlies with its mixture of fun, love, romance and fulfilment, and we’re pretty sure there wasn’t a single woman in the cinema who didn’t cry at some point during the film. It’s a deeply moving story of love and friendship and is a complete celebration of this fabulous character and what makes life so meaningful.
Image: Universal Pictures
