Is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy any good? Have your say

Yahoo

14-02-2025

Bridget Jones is back on the big screen for a fourth time as Mad About the Boy gets its cinema release.
The new adaptation of author Helen Fielding's books has been called the "best sequel yet" by The Independent, and even "by some distance the best of the bunch" in the whole franchise by The Telegraph.
However, critics were not unanimous in their praise for Bridget 4 - The Guardian claimed that the franchise had "frankly run out of steam", while The Standard called it "a bloated, weeping sogfest that blunders laboriously through the established tropes of the series."
If you've seen the film, do you think it was worth the wait or should the franchise have been put out to pasture after the third instalment? The critics have made their judgment, but we're keen to hear opinions from Yahoo UK readers on whether you think Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is worth a trip to the cinema.
Bridget Jones started out as Fielding's 90s newspaper column spoof on Pride & Prejudice, but its popularity saw a book deal and later the first film adaptation hit cinemas in 2001 with rom-com classic Bridget Jones's Diary.
Slightly less popular sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason followed in 2004, but it was a long 12 years until 2016 for Bridget Jones's Baby - and according to many critics and fans, not exactly worth the wait.
The jury is still out on whether Mad About the Boy will make its way into the rom-com hall of fame, but the excitement has been building amongst fans for the latest part of Bridget's story to play out on screen.
A more mature Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is grieving the death of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and has swapped her Borough flat for a family home in Hampstead where she's bringing up their two children alone.
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But with Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) having previously been killed off - although the fan favourite still manages to make a brief appearance in film four - Bridget is in need of a new love interest, with two new cast members to pull her in different directions.
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as her children's science teacher Mr Wallaker, while Leo Woodall is younger love interest and park ranger Roxster.
As usual for Bridget, the course of true love does not run smooth, with plenty of slapstick humour on a school trip to the Lake District with Mr Wallaker, romance with Roxster, and soul searching over where her future could lie.
Whether either new man can possibly live up to the late Mr Darcy is a question set to keep Bridget pondering as her diaries head into middle age.
Although many feel this is the franchise finale, Zellweger has refused to rule out a return to the role in future. She recently told Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway that she thought playing Granny Bridget further down the line might be fun, so if Mad About the Boy proves a hit, Fielding could well be tempted to revisit the story.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is in cinemas now.