The first Bridget Jones movie was a big hit with fans, as was the second one. The third was not so much. Therefore, you think they would have stopped there. But they did not.
On February 13th, we are getting Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy on Peacock. And they are killing off the best part of the franchise, the love story between Bridget (Renne Zellwegger) and Mark (Colin Firth). They literally killed off Mark.
In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar® winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor).
When I heard about the film, I was like, “Do we need this?” After watching this trailer, I know we didn’t.
On a positive note, it is the final movie in Bridget’s diary.
