Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell of a lot more fun than any black coffee-glugging, Marx-bothering Sally Rooney heroine.
The third film, 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” (which followed the 2004 sequel, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”) was enjoyable enough, but it left me feeling as though I’d filled my plate one too many times at a delicious but overstuffed buffet.
(It is also a truth universally acknowledged that a piece of writing mentioning Bridget Jones or any Jane Austen adaptation must contain the phrase “it is a truth universally acknowledged,” so that’s out of the way).
Bridget Jones changed that.
The most disappointing thing about Bridget Jones was always the reaction to her, especially Renée Zellweger’s portrayal.
Persons:
Holly Thomas, Katie Couric, Bridget Jones’s, ”, Bridget Jones, Marx, Sally Rooney, Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, Bridget —, “ Bridget Jones, Jane Austen, Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Bridget, Daniel Cleaver, Leo Woodall, I’m, it’s, Bridget grapples, Mark Darcy, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant’s, Darcy, Cleaver, It’s, we’d, — Bertie Wooster, Adrian Mole, Harry Paget Flashman, William Boot —, Bennet, —, Helen Fielding, isn’t, cussing
Organizations:
Katie Couric Media, CNN, Twitter
Locations:
London