Renée Zellweger

Bridget Jones's Baby -- film review: 'Misfiring jokes'

Renée Zellweger and Emma Thompson star in this limp sequel.

She has landed the Darcy (Colin Firth) of her dreams, but the course of true love isn't running too smoothly for Bridget. He's still a bit of a prig, and that charming Daniel (Hugh Grant) is still oozing about. The Thailand shenanigans (she's busted for drugs) are silly, but that down-to-earth Renée Zellweger charm sees this patchy sequel through, and paves the way for the follow-up, Bridget Jones's Baby, which is due on Friday.

Renée Zellweger interview

Renée Zellweger on missing Hugh Grant, returning to acting and her own pair of enormous panties.

Bridget Jones's Baby review

Renee Zellweger returns as a newly-pregnant Bridget Jones in this disappointing new instalment of the comedy franchise.

Bridget Jones's Baby review: "a bundle of joy"

Renée Zellweger's hapless heroine is pregnant - but unsure who the father is - in a comedy sequel that really delivers.

Bridget Jones's Baby review

It has to be said, that Zellweger is by some distance the weakest core component of the film.

Pictures from the Bridget Jones's Baby premiere

Bridget Jones's Baby star Renee Zellweger defies age at world premiere...

Bridget Jones's Baby review

Zellweger excels in fun romp heavy with expectation.

Bridget Jones' ending will be a surprise for the cast

Renee Zellweger has admitted she doesn't even know who the father of her baby is in the new Bridget Jones film.

This adaptation of Helen Fielding's novels casts Renée Zellweger as a brilliant Bridget, piling on the pounds to transform herself into the singleton who eats, drinks and smokes too much and is looking for love - but with Hugh Grant's caddish Cleaver or Colin Firth's decent Darcy? Daffy, delicious fun.