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(1st ever movie review.)I absolutely loved the 1st BJD, even though there're short snippets of stupidity, as opposed to sincere humor, in it. Cannot imagine why someone thought it was a good idea to try and make a baby comedy based around a despicable, middle-aged skank. There's absolutely nothing funny about a woman not being forthcoming and honest with 2 possible fathers. The absurdity that an attractive billionaire would carry on as was portrayed in the movie is unbearable. Humor doesn't have to be an insult to one's intelligence.(I walked for hours while in labor.) I just realized, the intent must have been a comedic fantasy film. Nothing is realistic, a lot of the scenes are stupid, and the bits that actually made me chuckle were few and too far between. BOMB!

I literally think the writers and actors wanted to see how many times they could say the world f@*k in a film. OK, I'm sure you win the award for that one. You accomplished saying the word f@*k more times than any other film. That might be cutting edge if it were the sixties but it's 2016 and there is nothing funny, creative, or even remotely original about cursing. How about some funny poignant jokes? Man, this film and it's cast looked tired and done. Even the sound editing was horrible. The voice dubs were so obvious it was distracting. But worst of all was the writing. This film might have worked twenty/thirty years ago, but there is nothing unusual about all the things they think are pushing the societal norms.

..We left before the end and frankly couldn't give a tinkers cuss whose baby it was. My girlfriend and I decided to go home and read some old Beano comics from the 80's, as that would be fresher, funnier and braver than this new stinker. Why? (Okay, a deep breath now...)...Bridgette Jones Baby was:-

Twee; predictable; safe; lack-lustre and tired; unimaginative; uninspired; badly written; poorly directed; ( And poorly photographed for that matter-not the best cinematography I've ever seen)- cont.. Gauche and just absolutely, embarrassingly and bewilderingly bad. Just as bewildering was the laughter from the audience, mostly females, and of a type. By that I mean the type who laugh at ANYTHING that is slightly different, in action or intention, to what is a social norm' expectation. The Type who would wet themselves laughing when, in Last of the Summer Wine, Compo falls into the canal for the umpteenth time, but most people would see it coming and yawn, 'oh no. Not again' Avoid this film if you have a well developed sense of humour. But DO go, if you like people falling into mud quagmires and you laugh at middle class people saying 'C**k or F*** 3/10 (and that's generous)

This series of movies has declined in quality since the first outing. I read an article a while back that said that scripts were more likely to succeed if they include swearing. The script writers appear to have taken this phenomenon very much to heart and for me there was simply too much effin & jeffin.

Even without the heavy-handed bad language this sequel lacks the charm and wit of the original and I watched it without ever feeling particularly engaged.

I hardly know where to begin to write a review of this film. To me this film fell short on so many levels that I cannot help but conclude that even the writers and craftspeople who worked on it didn't really care about it. I mean really care about it. I think the original was such a big hit that they all just went through the motions here hoping for a 'goodwill' paycheck. Therefor I refuse to spend for time on this review than the artists did on this project. As such I will just say that the script was extremely cliched, misogynistic, predictable, and dated.

Let's start with the positive: Emma Thompson is great!

Now that we've got the positive out the way, let's stick to the horrible script and plod on. Bridget Jones's Diary was a great movie and they should've stopped there. But money trumps common sense and here we have the (hopefully) last addition.

To summarise how this movie made me feel; like the director desperately wanted to appeal to a younger audience while alienating anyone who was endeared by Bridget her first story. The soundtrack is godawful, Ed Sheeran seems to be forced into this mess, the jokes are predictable and the script itself is so awful, even Colin Firth can't save this one.

The difference in pacing, jokes and just overall feel is staggeringly dreadful and made it hard to actually finish watching this movie.

So if you just pressed play, please stop and just rewatch the first movie. It'll keep the good memories unspoilt.

This time Apple really went too far. Up until now the worst was the scene in Silver Linings Playbook where Julia Stiles' character utters "You don't have an iPod? Who doesn't have an iPod??" but this is a hundred times worse. There's hardly a scene in the first half of the movie where we don't see the logo. You actually forget you're watching a movie. It borders on farce when Bridget is holding her phone and adjusts her fingers so that you can see the Apple logo from between her fingers. Google have their bit too, but smaller. I get it, Apple own Hollywood so modern movies happen in this alternate universe where not only everyone's area code is 555 but everyone uses Apple products. Kind of like Acme in the cartoons. But isn't product placement supposed to be subtle and work subconsciously, rather than be shoved down our throats all the time?

What about the rest of the movie? I remembered Bridget being a nice and kind person. Here she comes out as selfish, inconsiderate and unlikeable. The story is uninteresting. I didn't even care what happens in the end. I found Patrick Dempsey's character annoying. Sarah Solemani and Kate O'Flynn have some semi-funny moments. Colin Firth is the same as usual. I give it a three.

Predictable. Nothing to do with the previous wonderful movies. I would have loved to see more deep dialogues, more sophisticated jokes, twisted plot and over all a decent movie. Even the flow between scenes is not right. Or at least I didn't like it. And what is wrong with her face?? Renée is simply unrecognizable. Why would you do that to yourself?? I loved her so much in all her movies. She was exceptional. It's like Bridget was not part of this Bridget-movie. That was a bizarre experience. I don't recommend it. Feels like I need a remedy now to cure the emptiness from the past 2h of my life.

I thought the first Bridget Jones movie was cute enough (barely) and expected pretty much this issue to be along the same lines but quickly found it to be unnecessarily vulgar and profane. I'm fine with the use of 4-letter words when they're motivated by the character and/or plot, however, the foul language in BJB is gratuitous, ridiculous, and distracting. And I haven't even gotten to the plot or acting yet! BJB is supposed to be a comedy but I didn't chuckle during the whole film. Renee Zellweger needs the right vehicle to display her talents and I don't think the BJ movies do her that service. Her co-stars are more than capable to carry the movie, assuming they are served with a reasonable story. Also, I think BJB story line misses Hugh Grant's character and the way the writers made his convenient death at the beginning of the movie is a little silly and contrived. All-in-all, BJB was a disappointment and it didn't need to be.