Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) UK, 11th October 2016. The novel, Fielding says, focuses on Bridget’s “somewhat bumpy 123 mins, Rating - 15 journey into motherhood”. She went on to say, “At heart, Bridget Jones is about the gap Director: Sharon Maguire between how we all feel we’re expected to be Writers: Emma Thompson, Helen Fielding and how we actually are; and - as Bridget (screenplay), Dan Mazer (screenplay) discovers with her somewhat bumpy Stars: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim pregnancy - how we expect life to turn out and Broadbent how it actually does”. Synopsis Bridget Jones’s Baby is the third film in Helen What the Critics said - extracts Fielding’s resplendently resilient comic Wendy Ide - The Observer creation, and a sequel to the 2004 Bridget Excellent physical comedy, and Emma Jones: The Edge of Reason. Forty-something Thompson, as Bridget’s doctor, stands out in and single again, Bridget Jones decides to this third instalment of the series. High points focus on her job as top news producer and include a brilliant piece of physical comedy surround herself with old friends and new. For involving the heavily pregnant Bridget, a once, Bridget has everything completely under revolving door and co-writer Emma Thompson, control. What could possibly go wrong? Then who awards herself most of the best lines in her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a the film. Low points include a comic dance dashing American named Jack (Patrick sequence to Gangnam Style, a song that Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr. should now be outlawed from use in films for Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds the next decade. Or at least until the next herself pregnant, but with one hitch...she can Bridget Jones film. only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father. Charlotte O’Sullivan - The Evening Standard Sharon Maguire’s direction is merely Background to the film and the novels adequate. The soundtrack is devoid of The third Jones film, in which Bridget is surprises. Ed Sheeran, in a cameo role, working in television news, has been mooted overstays his welcome. So does a set-piece since 2009, and when it was finally time to get involving male bottoms and a frozen computer on set again in front of director Sharon screen. It’s a shame Zellweger’s not quite Maguire, who made the original film, Renée herself, but at least she’s there at the centre of Zellweger prepared by spending time with the the frame (her lovely voice, by the way, is as production crew on ITV’s breakfast show, huskily forceful as ever — her diary-like Good Morning Britain. Texas-born Zellweger musings, which book-end many of the scenes, has said that the stint with ITV also really work beautifully). Yet, incredibly, the film is still helped restore her English accent. worth seeing, partly down to Firth, who somehow gives the priggish Darcy a heartbeat Renee Zellweger has revealed that the actors that makes our own quicken. in the film - including her on-screen love interests Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey - Cath Clarke - Time Out have filmed a trio of endings to ensure crucial Bridget Jones’s Baby is funny and charming. plot twists are kept top secret. So even the What’s missing is Hugh Grant as Daniel ‘invest Oscar winner doesn't know who is the father of in lockable knickers’ Cleaver. And this being a her beloved character's child. Bridget Jones film, we get an awkward, embarrassing cameo – from Ed Sheeran (a bit Fielding’s debut novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary, budget, guys). Bridget 2.0 is also a bit clean drew upon Fielding’s anonymous column that and wholesome. Let’s have some more filthy she began writing for The Independent in sexual fantasy jokes about Prince Harry next 1995. The book was a global phenomenon time, please. when it was first published in 1996, and together with the 1999 sequel, Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, sold more than 15m copies worldwide. Following release of the third film in September 2016, Jonathan Cape published Film notes by Jane Gillon Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries, on .