Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Universal Pictures | Release Date: November 12, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
17
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
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. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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" did. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
At its best at its most absurd. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
The bright spot, again, is Grant. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The Bridget Jones characters are worth revisiting. It's just too bad the story that connects them in The Edge of Reason is less fresh and clever than its predecessor. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
The trouble with Bridget redux is also simple: Thai jail. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Doesn't have nearly enough Hugh Grant and is a little short on laughs, but it gets by on Renée Zellweger's charms. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Too bad Kidron, Fielding and company pay only cafe lip service to satire. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
Second time round, Bridget is still fat, funny and endearing -- but "all a bit, um, familiar, actually." Read full review
60
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Improbably, the sequel only ups the ante on its predecessor's comedy-of-embarrassment quotient. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Carefully re-creates the first movie's lightweight romance and mildly cheeky gender comedy. Read full review
60
Washington PostTeresa Wiltz
Yes, it is v. funny. It's just not v. clever. And clever is what made the original Bridget Jones movie such a hoot. Read full review
60
TimeRichard Schickel
We forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames 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. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie catches occasional fire when Bridget suddenly says what's really on her mind. The rest is silliness. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
An uninspired, sporadically funny adaptation that falls short of the book's winsome, frisky chaos. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Cute, cloying and catastrophically predictable. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
In case you were holding your breath, Renée Zellweger's Bridget Jones is still sweetly earnest, chronically overweight and swinging once again from lovestruck to lovelorn.
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Begins by repeating many gags from the previous film. Only now they feel lame and routine. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The director, Beeban Kidron, handles the proceedings with an episodic aimlessness on par with Bridget's. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Leah McLaren
Rather than being one of us, this stumpy-legged dingbat is a realization of our worst social fears. Before we were laughing with her, and now we're laughing at her. Read full review
50
PremiereSara Brady
Bloated with too many pratfalls yet too little plot, and neutered of its most viciously hysterical moments. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Final verdict: Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different. Read full review
40
EmpireCaroline Westbrook
For the most part, Edge Of Reason is as saggy and well-worn as Bridget's big knickers. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Labored and dispiriting. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
This picture has an ugly habit of humiliating Bridget, which "Diary" did not. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Takes the worst and most annoying elements of the first film and treats them like grand assets. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
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. Read full review
30
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Has all the charm of a canceled CBS sitcom. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton." Read full review
30
SalonCharles Taylor
So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Audiences enjoyed the original “Bridget Jones” because it hit close to home...But the sequel has about as much emotional depth as a sitcom Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Absurdly over the top and not especially funny. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A great role becomes an unenviable chore, in which a superb comic actress finds herself trying to sell a series of unfunny comic situations by mugging and pushing with all her might. It's an unflattering spectacle for all concerned. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Is it the clumsy script or the switch in directors -- Beeban Kidron in for Sharon Maguire -- that has sucked out the charm of the original and replaced it with crude pratfalls and enough shag gags to stuff the next three Austin Powers movies? Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Man, does this one make the first movie look like a masterpiece. What was Renée Zellweger thinking? It can't have been fun to put on all that weight, especially for a film as ghastly as this. Read full review
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