Film Review — Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Against the odds, this is the best of the Bridget Jones sequels

Credit: Universal/StudioCanal

Although I’ve not read any of Helen Fielding’s books, I hugely enjoyed Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) but was less enamoured by the sequels (I can barely remember the third one). However, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is, to my mind, the most valuable of the subsequent entries in that it feels like a much more significant p…