Bridget Jones's baby

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I'm probably well behind here but the film has just been added to Netflix.

What a pile of nonsense it is!

I know Bridget was supposed to be a clumsy, ditsy woman but in this film she is 43, pregnant, doesn't know who the father is but is going about it all like a teenage girl in trouble. Stringing them both along because as a 43 year old woman she hasn't grown up enough to have an adult conversation with both potential fathers.

And those men still find her charming enough not to hate her when they find out she's been lying!

I know I know it's a film and supposed to be entertaining (this is slightly lighthearted too) but this is just an insult to the original book/film!

Two hours of my life wasted on this rubbish!

"And she doesn't put on any weight during the pregnancy other than the bump?"

I didn't put any weight on other than the bump when I was expecting DD. Not all women expand in all directions.

It isn't a highbrow film, and doesn't pretend to be. It is light entertainment, and I just found it funny.

I thought it was hilarious.

It might even be worse than Sex and the City 2.

Damning words indeed.

Lon the point was, in first two film she struggled to get slimmer. If someone is bigger and struggles to loose weight, they don't naturally just become very slim without trying very hard. So when that person becomes pregnant it would be natural for their body to get bigger.

Some women are very slim and get pregnant, stay fairly slim then go back to being very slim afterwards. Bridget was never portrayed to be one of those women.

For he first two films she made her body bigger, to a size 14 I believe (when Renee's body is normally a slim size 6-8.) In this film she didn't get bigger when it would have made more sense if she did.

Worth it for the revolving door scene alone

Yes - it was rubbish but had us howling with laughter. There isn't enough lightweight, feel good, physical humour imo.

I loved it, it was much better than the edge of reason . As someone else said, it's supposed to be light entertainment. And we see Bridget at the end of the film when her son is a year old, I think, maybe she's had a chance to lose weight by then.

I think it was absolutely pants. Loved the first film second was good

But have to disagree it’s not a patch on the awfulness of Sex and the City second film that was diabolical

I know a film producer. Who turned down the chance to work on the original Bridget Jones film. I think he made the correct decision.

I belly laughed all the way through it. Granted it NYE about 2 years ago, and DH and I had 3 bottles of champagne and a shit ton of cheese and crackers whilst watching it.

The revolving door scene made me howl (I was proper drunk though...)

God it was utterly shit.

I loved her 'midwife's haha it's England we don't get doctors like that unless you pay a hell of a lot of money.

I enjoyed it and wouldn't mind watching it again. The only bit that annoyed me was that they found out which person was the dad and that it turned out to be the 'right' dad. Love it or loathe it is it relevant to slag off actress weight or face?

I liked it. I liked all the film though. Only read the first book and gave up half way through as I thought it was complete rubbish.

It was colin firths old lady chicken neck I couldn't get past

I think it's fine if you forget anything you know about Bridget jobs, it doesn't even loosely follow the plot of the books (seeing as in book 3 she has 2 kids).

So yes, ditzy rom com providing you don't expect any actual Bridget Jones

Patrick Dempsey redeems it.

Omg just switched it on - despite this thread - her face wtf

Makes mental note to watch this again tonight. Such a lot of tosh, but it doesn't claim to be anything else. Made me laugh and that's really all I want in a fluffy movie.

Patrick Dempsey redeems everything frankly...

I loved it. Not as good as number 1 but better than film 2 imo

I saw it because of Netflix, finally! Good film.

Well I quite enjoyed it. Don't think I'll ever watch it multiple times like I did with the first 2 but def wasn't a waste of an evening.

I watched last night. I thought the news anchor character was really funny (I am easily amused :D). The festival scenes when she was zorbing made me guffaw.

Colin Firth has certainly aged, but I still would (I don't know if I love him or Mr/Mark Darcy). Sally Phillips and Shirley Henderson were really good, but not in it enough.

Very hard to suspend my disbelief at Bridget's face and it annoyed me the whole way through that her hair desperately needed a cut.

Book 3 (4?)is presumably set a few years after the film when they have had one more child and Mark has died

@sixnearlyseven that really confused me when there was a funeral at the beginning and i was expecting it to be Mark Darcy!
Maybe the film came from the newspaper column she Helen Fielding restarted??

I hated all the films but loved the books with exception of Mad About the Boy.