Faced with such concerns and doubts, their relationship starts to splinter and fracture at the exact moment they're both tentatively, secretly considering wedding bells and babies. This works both ways too as she comes to realise that her beloved is something of a priggish Tory bore with a strong allegiance and belief in the public school system. In trying to bridge the chasm of their respective social standing, Bridget becomes fearful that the things Mark found so attractive in her initially are the things that will ultimately frustrate him. It's an interesting premise: to find out what happened after our lovers walked off into the sunset, and its character development, looking a little bit more in depth and beneath the surface, that is key to this sequel. And what's with Bridget's parents - why are they so blase about the fact that their daughter had just been facing twenty years max in a Thai prison? Again, any semblance of reality has been disposed of.Īs for the positives, there's a lot to be said in how the film effectively picks up where the original concluded, just eight weeks into Bridget and Mark's relationship. Throw into the mix the casual racism of 'don't foreigners talk funny? Look they pronounce their R's like L's and their L's like R's ho ho ho', and the confused attempt at making Bridget wake up to the fact that her problems are deeply first world compared to her fellow inmates, only to try and solve their problems with some first world products, and we're really in some offensive waters. It's a sequence of events that seems to want to tap into the stark horror of Bangkok Hilton with the all-girls-together vibe of Malory Towers and yes, it really as jawdroppingly odd as that sounds. One of my big problems with just how loopy The Edge of Reason is can be highlighted by that weird and really rather unnecessary sojourn to Thailand. And yet for all its faults, I found there was surprisingly quite a bit to enjoy. They've basically taken all the stuff that worked in the original and ramped it up to levels that utterly stretch credulity. Its a film with many loopy moments and Bridget is depicted as so naive and so spectacularly clumsy that it feels at times like you're watching an episode of Ab Fab rather than a traditional romcom. I wasn't actually that struck on the first one but at least that one only saw Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver go out the window in their climactic fight, in this sequel it is reality that goes out the window. On my one and only previous watch of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason not long after it came out I really didn't like it.
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