Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
7 |
...a jolly movie and I smiled pretty much all the way through, but it doesn't shift into high with a solid thunk the way Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) did. |
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
6 |
Strip away this supplemental buffoonery and you're left with, again, a love triangle, one not nearly so charming when Firth's squeamish affection looks a lot like disdain and Zellweger's regained plump looks a lot like a thyroid disorder. |
E!
|
7 |
...goes down as easy as a warm donut. |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
5 |
...a lackluster follow-up to the mildly enchanting original. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
6 |
Zellweger, who again put on 20 pounds for the role, has more meat on her bones than this anorexically plotted sequel... |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
4 |
Much of the charm that made Bridget Jones's Diary so much fun is conspicuously absent from this sequel that only seems to laugh at poor Bridget instead of with her. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
4 |
...an uninspired sequel... |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
3 |
...less a film than a series of non-stop embarrassments set to a sunny soundtrack. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
3 |
...a consistently crass sequel that would have to go some to cut it as a bad American sitcom. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
6 |
...a triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material. |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
3 |
...makes the first movie look like a masterpiece. |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
7 |
...there's something shamed and apologetic about Zellweger's performance that undercuts what is otherwise a gleefully indulgent satire of chickdom. |
People
Leah Rozen |
6 |
...no crying need ... other than that everyone concerned probably saw a chance to score a lucrative paycheck... |
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor |
7 |
Reprehensible, ideologically indefensible and bags of guilty fun, this delightfully low sequel to Bridget Jones' Diary finds our insecure, compulsively candid heroine (Renée Zellweger, plus 50 pounds) shuttling once again between the tall, dark, handsome and uptight Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and the tall, dark, handsome and irredeemably feckless Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, looking ever so slightly and poignantly older). |
Village Voice
Jessica Winter |
3 |
...strains to justify its existence... |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
3 |
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. |
Maxim
Patrick Richardson |
2 |
If your girlfriend tries to drag you to see this, we suggest sawing off your legs as a proper countermeasure. |
Premiere
Sara Brady |
5 |
...bloated with too many pratfalls yet too little plot, and neutered of its most viciously hysterical moments. |
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt |
5 |
The movie catches occasional fire when Bridget suddenly says what's really on her mind. The rest is silliness. |
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