What follows is an excerpt from the review of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by film critic Anthony Quinn from today's Independent newspaper. Although I have not seen the movie, the review pretty much confirms everything I had managed to gather from seeing the previews. It also excellently sums up what I generally think about run-of-the-mill movie sequels.
"At some point you have to ask: how little are the fans prepared to settle for? Will it matter to them that there's a public fisticuffs between Darcy and Cleaver virtually identical to the first movie? That Bridget's three "friends", Jude, Shazza and Tom, have absolutely no life during their few dismal scenes? That a breathless cab ride figures at the finale, as it does in almost every movie Richard Curtis touches? I'm afraid it probably won't. Nor will it bother the folk at Working Title once the queues start forming. All the same, this is a pretty tawdry product, and it hasn't even the virtue of novelty any more. Throughout one senses a desperation to please, to seek the easiest laughs and the quickest payoffs."
You can read the entire review here:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/story.jsp?story=581862
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