Bridget Jones's Baby

By George M. Thomas

Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) celebrates her birthday in

a familiar way in Bridget Jones's Baby.

BRIDGET JONES’S BABY will most certainly be labeled “chick flick” by some, a statement that is sexist on one level and very much accurate on another.

To be quite honest, of the three Bridget flicks that have hit over the course of the past 15 years, BABY is the funniest and most enjoyable.

The primary reason for that:  Bridget (Renee Zellweger) has evolved as a person.  She’s not the individual worried constantly and consistently about her love life, sex life or anything else related to the matters of amour.

In fact, as she celebrates her 43^rd birthday alone as the film opens, she’s not disappointed because she’s not with who she thought was her soulmate, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).  Instead it’s the company of friends she craves.