Why you just have to forgive Bridget Jones

It took a long time. So long that the chaoticBridget JonesAlmost as a British cultural phenomenon of the 2000s and 2010s, Ad Acta would have been laid. Now the characters flicker over the screens almost 25 years after "Chocolate for Breakfast". All, except Mister Darcy-he was killed by author Helen Fielding, so that we can again watch our film heroine see how she stood up to the pitfalls of single life.

As always, when a figure from the past steps back into our lives, the risk of being disappointed is great. First of all: this is not the case in "Crazy for him", even if the superficial title suggests this first. He would have to be better: "Crazy about her". Because Bridget finally selects her men afterwards whatherGuttUt.

Before she does this, the stomach briefly cramps when watching. Because initially the film threatens too long for a second, the same mistakes of theTo repeat: Bridget, who plays the decal -style widow with strubbel hair in Pyjama. In addition, a tendencyal fader monologue that introduces her new world as a single mother. Will everything be a bad copy from before?

Fortunately, the film quickly gets the curve. The first laughing attacks are not long in coming when her former lover Hugh Grant, as Daniel Cleaver, delightfully chosen young part-time poet and models. Hugh is now Bridget's closest friend. She and her children have built up a loving home that is often filled with her horde of super successful single friend. When Hugh then stops by as an uncle babysitter, the elementary school students are taught important basic knowledge of a good macho. For example, how to prepare a "dirty bitch".

Somehow everything is wonderfully nostalgic and at the same time balanced. Nobody in Bridget's environment, including herself, has really grown up - even if the big houses and careers make you appear. This is exactly what the film gives great ease and is proof that you don't worse as a chaoticOr is less successful in the job.

You are grateful because Bridget seems to have arrived in her body. At least the topic of weight that hovers over the old films like a sword of Damocles does not be touched-one remember the grammar calorie list in their diary. Instead, the hurdles of aging are dealt with as a woman. This is reflected in the relationship with the 29-year-old "Roxter" AKA, in forbidden ampoules for fuller lips and the question of what is ultimately important in life.

The latter is answered (!) Again by a man, but that doesn't seem to be important and serves more as a heart -warming Lectisle for the much more important pictures: the cohesion in Bridget's environment, the loving and unusually authentic relationship with your children and the inevitability of failure.

All of this is so charming, because in addition to the loud comedy, there is always space for the honest and quieter grief. Nevertheless, it never gets pathetic because every time the perfectly dose kitsch is sprinkled in time for which the viewers love the film. As Bridget Jones, Renée Zellweger shows that growing up does not mean to have his life under control, but rather face his challenges. Over and over again. Stolpering, naive, benevolent.

So if you have decided not to like the film, in the end it is too well written, cast too well and filmed too well to be chasing his clichés.

"Bridget Jones - crazy for him" starts today, February 27, 2025, in German cinemas.