Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review – 'they've saved the best till last'

Crack unfastened the Chardonnay and a container of tissues due to the fact that the new, eagerly-anticipated Bridget Jones movie volition person you laughing and crying astatine the aforesaid clip with its moving themes

Bridget Jones is backmost – and she’s inactive the aforesaid self-obsessed, shallow-as-puddle, breathy-voiced, duck-waddling, artless ditz that we person ever loved.

And if this is the last 1 successful the franchise, past they’ve saved the champion till last.

In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is present a widow with 2 young children, Mabel and Billy, who are painfully grieving their father, lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), aft helium was killed connected a humanitarian ngo 4 years agone – bringing the existent satellite crashing successful connected their comfy precocious mediate people existence.

Well, arsenic overmuch of the existent satellite arsenic a schmaltzy romcom tin handle. Bridget inactive manages to unrecorded successful a £2m Georgian basement level successful Hampstead, North London, connected her widow's pension. Sends her children to what looks suspiciously similar an costly prep school, and hires an irritatingly cleanable nanny erstwhile she goes backmost to her aged occupation arsenic a TV producer.

Smug marrieds and her aged mates Jude (Shirley Henderson) and Shazzer (Sally Phillips) are inactive giving unwanted proposal – and rudely telling her to get laid again earlier it “closes up”.

Which I conjecture wherefore Bridget is inactive seeing her droll gynae (Emma Thompson). The doc's proposal to “put her ain oxygen disguise first” which means she’s astir surely treating Bridget's incorrect end.

While Bridget enthusiastically digs retired her large pants (small cheer from the audience) to spell dating – past thinks up and chooses thing smaller and decidedly much itchy, women of a definite property volition place much with Shazzer’s character, who present interviews insignificant celebs for her podcast and spends her beingness being furious.

And alternatively than everyone conscionable reasoning he’s babysitting erstwhile he’s dating his overmuch younger girlfriends, “Uncle” Daniel Cleaver (Huge Grant) really does look aft the miniature Darcys truthful Bridget tin spell retired connected a date. The aged cad has softened a spot but inactive gets each the funniest lines.

As ever Bridget has to determine betwixt 2 men – this clip histrion adonis toyboy Rockster (Leo Woodall) and her children’s uptight whistle-blowing teacher Mr Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

In these much politically close days, I was shocked to spot a mates of scenes of casual intersexual objectification of some antheral emotion interests, and I volition beryllium making a superior complaint… that determination weren’t astir capable of them!

It’s uncommon to spot a movie that goes down good with specified a mixed assemblage of some Gen Z and Gen X. Although I did announcement that portion the young radical to my near didn’t rather get each of the in-jokes and sensibly sipped water, the middle-aged women to my close laughed uproariously, drank excessively overmuch achromatic vino – and ended up successful the incorrect enactment erstwhile coming backmost from the loo. Those are my people.

Naturally it snows successful the movie, arsenic it ever does erstwhile Jones realises her what’s been staring her successful the look each this clip – and she goes aft the antheral she genuinely loves.

At her age, though, she truly ought to debar moving connected dangerously icy cobbles. And if Bridget does get different outing, I suggest she gets herself a bully brace of non-slips to spell with those cardis she insists connected wearing respective sizes excessively small.

At the extremity of the film, the assemblage of hard-boiled London property adjacent clapped, which I deliberation tells you the 4th Bridget has capable of the magic and charm of the archetypal to marque it a large hit.

I sat done the credits and watched each the aged snaps from past Bridget Jones movies popular up connected screen. It felt a spot similar I was looking astatine my ain household medium – that’s however agelong Bridget has been with us.

Then the lights came up and I saw I was unsocial with hundreds of bars of escaped cocoa from the movie sponsor Galaxy which each the too-cool-for-school media types had near behind.

“What would Bridget bash successful this situation?” I thought to myself. And rapidly stuffed arsenic galore bars of cocoa arsenic I could acceptable successful my handbag without alerting the authorities.

• Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (15) present connected wide merchandise successful each UK cinemas