After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
I'd like to raise a glass of Chardonnay and toast Bridget Jones's Baby on its (mostly) hilarious, and long-anticipated, homecoming.
– Julia Cooper,
Globe and Mail,
16 Sep 2016
rotten:
Pregnant with possibility, but it fails to deliver.
– Leslie Felperin,
Hollywood Reporter,
16 Sep 2016
rotten:
So reliably does she embarrass herself at every public event that the film, trudging by on automatic, becomes an embarrassment, too.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
19 Sep 2016
rotten:
Sweet, slight and fitfully funny, it's a movie admirers of the earlier films should mildly enjoy, but cast in terms any new parent can understand, isn't worth the price of a sitter.
– Brian Lowry,
CNN.com,
19 Sep 2016
fresh:
Although it's patchy and gives off an air of trying too hard, the movie is surprisingly funny.