How sad is this?

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Bridget Jones' Baby is more of the same in Bridget Jones' cinematic journey into her lovelife. A little better than Edge of Reason, but not much, Baby reunites most of the original cast expect for Hugh Grant who is sorely missed & given a possibility of return by film's end but at this point do we even care? Bridget Jones has gone from a character in control of her destiny to someone whose whims are determined by others as evidenced in the two follow-ups. A shame really...

I did like many gags that were hilarious, some less so. I found the film storyline rather predictable but tagged along for the good jokes. The last third was getting much less funny, more predictable but it needed to wrap up somehow.

This time Apple really went too far. Up until now the worst was the scene in Silver Linings Playbook where Julia Stiles' character utters "You don't have an iPod? Who doesn't have an iPod??" but this is a hundred times worse. There's hardly a scene in the first half of the movie where we don't see the logo. You actually forget you're watching a movie. It borders on farce when Bridget is holding her phone and adjusts her fingers so that you can see the Apple logo from between her fingers. Google have their bit too, but smaller. I get it, Apple own Hollywood so modern movies happen in this alternate universe where not only everyone's area code is 555 but everyone uses Apple products. Kind of like Acme in the cartoons. But isn't product placement supposed to be subtle and work subconsciously, rather than be shoved down our throats all the time?What about the rest of the movie? I remembered Bridget being a nice and kind person. Here she comes out as selfish, inconsiderate and unlikeable. The story is uninteresting. I didn't even care what happens in the end. I found Patrick Dempsey's character annoying. Sarah Solemani and Kate O'Flynn have some semi-funny moments. Colin Firth is the same as usual. I give it a three.

There is, indeed, something wrong with Zellweger's face job. The stretched eyes, the botoxed forehead, the puffed out lips - made a joke out of the Bridget Jones character. And the British accent - by now wouldn't it be MORE believable after the third outing instead of something from a high school drama class? Zellweger's scrunched up facial expressions have become identical - pain, thinking, happy all look the same. The premise of the movie - that a 43-year-old woman can't tell who fathered her child - is painfully stupid.