I've seen the movie and thought it was charming and funny. i'd rank it a close second behind the original.I think most of the world will check it out but I expect it to bomb in the U.S which is obsessed with looks. There is no way an American will go see the adventures of a middle aged woman unless they have pumped up their butt, breasts and lips with silicone.
shareThere's no shooting and killing in this one so violence-obsessed Americans won't appreciate a nice, violence-free movie like Bridget Jones Baby.
shareThen how did The Secret Life of Pets become such a huge hit or Finding Dory or Zootopia?
BTW, Warcraft, Gods of Egypt and Independence Day: Insurgence bombed in America but thrived internationally. So much for your argument there.
I believe these are children's movies, no?
shareI've seen more adults go to those movies than the kids.
I saw Wall-E and it was nothing but wall to wall adults and not one child was there.
Yes, but these are animations. They're not supposed to have sexy characters or shooting. People just like animations. My mother enjoys them probably as much as a 5-year-old kid.
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My sister and I saw it today and we both hated it. She might have been middle aged in years but acted like a not very bright child - with very short attention span, no depth and a fall back position of making bad situations worse by lying about them.
America is fine with middle aged women, and a film about Emma Thompson's character might have brought some adult wit to the table.
Some of my friends who saw this had the same reaction you two did.
But why do you believe others are defending this and proclaiming that it is a good movie?
Bridget has never behaved like a grownup. She has always been kind of clumsy and awkward. And there have been lots of movies with men behaving like idiots, why aren't they criticized?
"I will not be strong armed by threats against my laundry"
As a 26 year old American female, I must reluctantly agree. While Bridget is one of my favorite characters in any film or book, many of my friends haven't even seen either of the movies.
shareYawn, trolls. Yawn.
The real problem could be the amount of time it took to make this film, not to mention the lackluster sequel that left me wishing I'd waited for it to come out on cable. Yes, I wanted to know what happened to Bridget--who didn't?--but the sequel left much to be desired. The spark and energy and charm of the original was sorely lacking.
So why, all these years later, should we care about yet another entry?
And let's be honest: the words "middle aged" and "baby" shouldn't go together. Renee is hardly middle-aged, and Bridget is supposed to be even younger, but the OP used the term so I'm using it. I know I rolled my eyes when I heard the film was about her pregnancy. Women of her age more typically struggle to conceive. It might have worked years ago when the film was originally slated to begin production, but the conceit is thin now.
You don't think 43 is middle aged???
shareWhy finding excuses to a movie that doen't work. It's like that. No need to criticize American because they don't go see it.
Juno was a huge hit, no need of violence. They are just not attracted to this one, that's all.
As an American who LOVES Bridget with a passion, I have to agree with you. I've seen the movie more than once on opening weekend and it was never busy in the theater. I do usually prefer BBC movies to American ones though, so I'm probably not one to disagree with you.
The good thing is that even if it bombs, it has already earned back what it cost to make. I want to see more romantic comedies back in the theater. I hate the new versions where women must save themselves and men are bumbling idiots.
animated movies do well with americans because of the nostalgia of their racist disney cartoons
shareWell, I am American and I enjoyed the movie. I am not in love with pumped up butts, breasts or lips so...I think it just comes down to people and their personal taste, not their nationality...
I also have been a BJD fan since I was a little girl and I am not a middle age women, mid twenties actually, and I still enjoyed the film. Sorry to not fit into your stereotype.
It might have something to do with nationality and culture. Don't know about this one, but I've noticed it with the cover of videogames, or even the content. Zelda for example had the Link character with his sword charging to attack on the American version, on the Europe version it just says Zelda. Even Kirby was making an angry face on the American cover, while for everyone else it was just regular cute Kirby. In one game they even changed the main protagonist from a regular teenage boy to a VERY muscular he-man type character. The original Japanese version was a kid looking for his sister, the American one was a father looking for his daughter, it made no sense to change it and it's actually much cooler the the original way.
I watched a docu about this a while ago, that was about steroids and how commonplace they've become in America. It was a pretty fair view too as the guy who made it used to use steroids and his brother still was. The docu essentially said that in order to stay competitive you had no other choice but to take them. It is impossible to look like like Arnold with just hard work, yet almost everyone in body building, wrestling, American football and even some movie stars look like that. If you compare them to people 50 or so year ago doing the same thing nobody looks like that, because that's simply not what humans look like. But because of what is becoming an increasingly unrealistic body image along with the desire to get noticed, make it big, live the American dream, more and more people will do crazy things to themselves in order to live up to that insane image of beauty. It's been creeping into European society too and is becoming more common here as well. Maybe more for women as they tend to care more about their looks, but it definitely affects both genders in a negative way and seems to be prevalent in American culture.
Docu: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/
This is true Bridger Jones is really a EUROPEAN film it is NOT an American film. The film is really BRITISH. In terms of the humour, the jokes, even though Renee Zellweger is American she is EXTREMELY POPULAR in the UK and Europe. The movie is a huge success due to Renee she really deserves props here for the film success overseas. $200 million worldwide and most of it was made outside of North America that is incredible.
shareWho cares if it's successful in USA. The reverse hold true for many more American movies about subjects that have zero relevance internationally.
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