THE CHARIOTEERS MOVIE REVIEW

Bridget Jones Diary – The Edge of Reason

The Edge of Reasonable Suspension of Disbelief more like.

Renee Zellwegger famously piled on the pounds for the first movie and vowed afterwards, when a sequel was mooted, that she would never do it again. She then re-read the cheque, sorry – I mean script, and set about the pizza and doughnuts with gusto. In fact I think she may have overdone it a bit this time. Her character appears to have spent the supposed 8 weeks between the end of the first movie and the start of this one indulging in some sort of pie-eating frenzy and now looks positively zeppelin-like for most of the movie.

As for the movie itself…? Well they appear to have picked out the bits that audiences liked in the first one - her hopeless organization skills, her ability to make a fool of herself in her job as a TV reporter, comedy fight scenes between the dastardly Daniel Cleaver and the saintly Mark Darcy, etc - and decided to repeat them ad nauseam, with a Thai jail scene thrown in for luck.

The result is a movie with a fair bit of slapstick, some of which works and some of which doesn’t (I will admit to have laughed a few times, and smiled a few more), and a ludicrous plot. It is sadly almost immediately forgettable.

Truly candyfloss for the brain. All light and fluffy with no substance.

Except for Renee and her pies obviously.