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There’s no sense of dramatic journey here.įilm picks up six weeks after the end of “Diary,” with Bridget (Zellweger) blissfully happy with upper-class human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Firth), with whom she’s spent Christmas in the countryside at her gushy parents’ (Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones) home.
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But where “Diary” had a strong will she-won’t she emotional arc as Bridget found her ideal man, “Reason” is basically a series of set pieces that ends up where it started out. Curtis’ spirit and evocation of a fairy-tale London and Britishness hang over the entire enterprise in a positive way, though even he hasn’t quite managed to solve the central problem that there’s not a lot going on here.įielding’s novel managed to get round the problem with a mass of small incidents, loads of character subplots and the sheer compulsiveness of Bridget’s neuroses.
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Three writers, including Fielding, labored over the task, with Zellweger, Grant and Firth reportedly only signing on when Richard Curtis (“Notting Hill,” “Love Actually”) did a final rewrite. Even more than “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” current outing takes just the bare bones of Helen Fielding’s weighty, 420-page novel and tries to fashion it into a regular movie.