8 Reasons You Won’t Want to Miss Bridget Jones’s Baby
By G.G. Andrew
BERLIN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 07: Renee Zellweger (L) and Colin Firth attend the ‘Bridget Jones Baby’ German Premiere in Berlin at Zoo Palast on September 7, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)
Bridget + Mark
In Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget and Mark hated each other, then got together. In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, they were together, then they fought—and then got back together for good. Or so we thought. At the start of Bridget Jones’s Baby, the two aren’t together, and haven’t been for a while. That final happy ending didn’t take, and until a while into this movie, we aren’t sure why. But the flashbacks to the Bridget/Mark relationship, when they come, are touching and feel true to both the characters and their past. We can imagine how it happened, but in a way that doesn’t extinguish all hope when Bridget and Mark reconnect and must deal with the emotional fallout from maybe, possibly, having conceived a child together. (Unless it was that other guy.)
Their dynamic is as enjoyable to watch as Bridget’s warm, exciting one with Jack, although it carries a rawness and vulnerability because of their complex past. A lot of us can relate to having not-quite-exes in our own lives, or people who are polar opposites from us as Mark and Bridget are. But as this film reminds us, “Sometimes you love a person for all the reasons they’re not like you.”
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Bridget Jones’ Baby opens today everywhere.