Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" is what we have here. Returning to the title role, Renee Zellweger is now a single mother of two small children. She has been widowed for four years since her husband, Mr. Darcy, died in a bomb explosion when he was working in Sudan, which is why she is single. It is a long, sorrowful pre-title sequence that introduces her present life. She struggles with her two, albeit required, gorgeous children, Mabel (Mila Jankovic), who is quite cute and continues to act as though she doesn't fully get the reasons behind her father's absence, and Billy (Casper Knopf), who is still missing his father. Any man in her mother's life is often asked, "Are you going to be my new daddy?"

Fielding, Abi Morgan, and the legendary Dan Mazer wrote the script. It has a lot of funny parts that counterbalance the mournful ones. From "the casual cruelty" of inappropriate dating to "the glory of what has been" when dates go wrong, the three authors skilfully navigate the issue of how to cope with bereavement. In one of the film's many scenes that contrast with the larger comedy, the writer brings back Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones in a short but poignant moment. Perhaps the best movie in the franchise since the first one, Bridget Jones TheFlixtor, is heartwarming, poignant, joyful, and uplifting.