Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, is a funny look inside the mind of a 33-year-old, insecure, unmarried woman living in London.

“You think you’ve found the right man but there’s so much wrong with him. And then he finds there’s so much wrong with you. And then it all just falls apart,” says Jones of her relationships.

The Edge of Reason is a sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). At the beginning of The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget in the happy, but insecure, state that we left her in the original. She is with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), an accomplished lawyer who somehow overlooks Bridget’s insecurities. Bridget is a little overweight and quite often says and does things that are inappropriate. At the Law Counsel Dinner, a very important event for Mark, Bridget seems to make the wrong comments all night long. She then compares herself to Mark’s beautiful intern, Rebecca, who always says the right thing. By the end of the night, Bridget decides that Mark Darcy is a snob, and maybe she doesn’t need him after all.

When Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), Bridget’s former boss, comes on the scene, things get very interesting. Bridget is forced to be Cleaver’s female counterpart on a television journalist show about world travels. On a trip to Thailand, Bridget finds herself being seduced by the womanizing Cleaver. Although things have fizzled with Mark Darcy, Bridget is not sure about Cleaver’s motives. At the airport, headed back to London, Bridget runs into a major problem: Unknowingly, she has a large amount of cocaine stored in her luggage. Needless to say, Bridget then finds herself in a Thai jail.

While making friends with the other prisoners, Bridget realizes that Mark Darcy was not as bad as she had imagined. After all, he did say that he loved her, and she loved him. While Bridget suffered in the jail, it was Mark Darcy who pulled all of the stops to rescue her.

When Bridget is finally released, she runs straight to her friends who tell them of Mark’s generosity. After several attempts to reach Mark, she goes straight to his office, where she confesses her undying love to…an old, bald man. The next try, she finally gets it right, and Mark and Bridget live happily ever after.

“I truly believe that happiness is possible even when you’re thirty-three and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls,” Jones says at the end of the movie.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was everything I was looking for in the sequel. It was romantic and funny with a few unexpected twists. If you loved the first Bridget Jones, or even if you have never seen it, I highly recommend the sequel. It is a great romantic comedy. It left me hoping for a Bridget Jones 3!