40
For the most part, Edge Of Reason is as saggy and well-worn as Bridget's big knickers.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The movie catches occasional fire when Bridget suddenly says what's really on her mind. The rest is silliness.
60
Second time round, Bridget is still fat, funny and endearing -- but "all a bit, um, familiar, actually."
80
If you liked "Love, Actually," you'll love this too, another small jewel in the crown of unabashedly commercial, cheerfully middlebrow, eminently exportable British fluff.
50
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Die-hard fans are advised to wait for the video. Everyone else would be better off pretending that this movie doesn't exist. In the long run, you'll have a higher opinion of everyone involved.
60
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Improbably, the sequel only ups the ante on its predecessor's comedy-of-embarrassment quotient.
30
When a sequel has to hit the reset button and take all its characters back to where they started, it probably didn't need to be made.
38
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
This picture has an ugly habit of humiliating Bridget, which "Diary" did not.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.
30
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
Has all the charm of a canceled CBS sitcom.
To be honest, sequels aren't usually my thing. And although this sequel rings true to a certain extent, there is still some sort of inexplicable charm about Bridget Jones. As she fumbles through her love life, her job, and pretty much everything else, we see a real woman struggling with balancing her life, a fresh perspective unlike the typical Hollywood glamorisation of life.