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!

I could be wrong but I think Helen Fielding also had her kids in her forties like Bridget, I've never read the newspaper column.

I liked it, although DW had to explain the cockups. But then I liked Crank 2: High Voltage. The Stath recharging himself off of car engines, shock collars, and sex with someone wearing artificial fibres. In the middle of a racecourse.

LOVED it! My favourite by far

She should have stopped after the second book, and frankly, all of the films were shite.

I suppose she's laughing all the way to the bank, but I thought she had more integrity and dignity than to churn out the guff she has done in recent years.

Sad, because the original was brilliant. It might not be literature, but feck me it was a game-changer.

Now she risks being one of those saddo writrs who should have stopped years ago and just keeps churning out ever increading rubbish.

I saw it on Netflix. God, it was crap. No cliche or rubbish joke unused.

I felt patronised by it, frankly. The American bloke was creepy. Turning up at her flat with all the props from the dates they might have had...I’d have been calling the police. Also, the stupid sub-plot involving Bridget’s mother standing for the parish council dressed as Margaret Thatcher.

The ‘nicked from real life’ sub-plots about the chauffeur mistakenly being interviewed on the news and the Pussy Riot-style band. So lazy. How long did it take to write that script? Half an hour?

I wish that Renee Zellwegger had left her face alone, too. Her surgery has made her look older, which I don’t think can have been her intention.

But I still think that Helen Fielding is an excellent writer...of books.

I enjoyed it I thought it was very funny. I didn't like the first two, and the books were dreadful. (Well I only read about half of the first one. Awful)

I couldn't watch the nice wedding bit at the end without thinking how it was all going to go downhill and Mark gets killed and she's left with two young kids! Mad about the boy was one of the worst things I ever read.

I found this film vaguely amusing in parts. The trip to the hospital was ludicrous.

It is a ridiculous film, but nothing quite beats the ludicrously stupid Thai prison stint (which resembles an 80s teenage pyjama party) in film 2... I mean there's suspension of disbelief, and then there's that

It’s a turn your brain off and enjoy sort of film. Easy on the plot and lots of cliche humour. I rather liked it.

The one thing I loved in it was Emma Thompson. She was fantastic as ever.