Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a riot of hilarious silliness… even if toyboy Leo Woodall is just shallow eye candy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

(15) 125 mins

★★★★☆

WHEN Britain’s caller heartthrob histrion Leo Woodall was asked if helium felt “objectified” helium replied that helium couldn’t assistance asking himself: “Am I that guy?”

Judging by the 4th and (allegedly) last Bridget Jones movie, Leo request not walk immoderate much clip agonising implicit that question.

Because, really, the 28-year-old prima of One Day is conscionable oculus candy.
Charisma oregon surface beingness surely aren’t among Leo’s attributes.

But his character, Roxster, is cardinal to immoderate of the biggest laugh-out-loud gags successful this precise invited instrumentality for the much-loved bumbling Bridget.

A country wherever the well-toned histrion takes contiguous enactment connected seeing a helpless canine paddling for beloved beingness successful a swimming excavation is drama gold.

That is 1 of galore times wherever the manager decided it was perfectly indispensable for “the Roxster” to get his apical off.

As always, though, it is the brilliant Renee Zellweger arsenic Bridget who drives the humour along.

At the commencement of Mad About the Boy, the avid diary keeper is 4 years widowed pursuing the decease of her hubby Mark Darcy.

While stuck up a histrion trying to rescue her 2 young children, our heroine archetypal meets the chivalrous Roxster.

As that passionate romance burns brightly, Bridget develops a simmering communal affection for her kids’ subject teacher Mr Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Cue tons of moments of embarrassment, with the whistle-blowing pedagogue seeing intersexual wellness leaflets falling retired her daughter’s container oregon lasting down Bridget arsenic she buys a handbasket afloat of condoms successful the pharmacy.

Chiwetel, who besides goes topless, is everything that Leo isn’t - which is simply a beardown histrion capable to find extent and empathy successful adjacent the astir ridiculous lines.

The occupation is that arsenic his quality comes much into Bridget’s beingness the humour starts to driblet off.

That’s not needfully Chiwetel’s fault, it's that the publication often veers towards tear-jerking moments astir coping with grief erstwhile Mr Wallaker is around.

Director Michael Morris, though, cautiously plays his drama trump paper to guarantee Mad About the Boy ne'er gets excessively mawkish.

Hugh Grant pops up present and determination arsenic the caddish Daniel Cleaver to marque jokes astir shagging the babysitter.

There’s small astir Mad About the Boy which is original, but bully old-fashioned bawdy humour and pratfalls are uncommon successful cinema these days.

It’s a riot of silliness that sticks 2 fingers up astatine anyone worrying astir men being “objectified.”