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Bridget Jones Forever
As long as Bridget Jones lives, we should be allowed to tag along for the ride.
Mad About the Boy cooks up another obligatory love triangle — Leo Woodall’s hunky young Roxster versus Chiwetel Ejiofor’s standoffish science teacher, Mr. Wallaker — but the “which guy?” of it all has little to do with what makes the film great. Over the past few years, several film series have stretched beyond their narrative capacities through recasts and reboots: Different actors have played Batman and Mad Max and even Elle Woods, and Twisters, Top Gun: Maverick, and Alien: Romulus unleashed a bunch of millennials upon beloved canon. Once consumed with anxiety about her weight and clothing, Zellweger’s Bridget is still occasionally pajama-clad and disheveled, and indulgent in her sexual habits and her eating ( Mad About the Boy has plenty of white wine and marshmallows to go around).
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