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BRIAN VINER reviews Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy: A tearjerker that's v.v. funny - and the best Bridget since the original
The fourth Bridget Jones film is the best since the original, and aptly enough the most grown-up of the quartet, exploring grief and bereavement but never at expense of wit.
It is four years since her husband Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) - a stiff human-rights lawyer strongly rumoured to be based on a certain Keir Starmer (though Fielding, Bridget’s creator, remains mischievously evasive on the subject) - died on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. I took my grown-up daughter (who’d barely started school when the first film, Bridget Jones’ Diary, came out) to last month’s world premiere, and she had to suppress hysterical laughter more than once, especially when a lip-serum injection goes badly, hilariously wrong. But director Michael Morris (whose experience is mainly in television, on the majestic Better Call Saul among other hit shows) ensures that these comic set pieces do not interrupt the narrative flow, which also has Bridget apprehensively going back to work as a TV producer.
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