All hail the return of Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. In her fourth big-screen adventure, Bridget has been tragically out of the game for some time, and as a put-upon mother of two, it's time to get back out there.
Step forward two potential suitors in the form of Chiwetel Ejiofor's teacher Mr. Wallaker and Leo Woodall's Roxster. Will Bridget finally be able to find the lasting happiness that she deserves?
Finding out is half the fun, particularly when Hugh Grant's hilariously caddish Daniel Cleaver returns to the scene. Grant's sardonic delivery is a key ingredient to the blockbusting success of the Bridget Jones movies although this is the first time he's made a substantial appearance since the second instalment in 2004.
We're celebrating Cleaver's return with our run-down of his best scenes.
1. "Absolutely enormous pants" (Bridget Jones's Diary)
Cleaver is introduced as Bridget's boss and the keen nemesis of the apparently haughty Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), with whom he has a history. One cannot separate Bridget from her pants, and Grant's riotously dry delivery cements it when, mid-snog, an impressed Cleaver discovers what she's wearing.
2. A love of Keats (Bridget Jones's Diary)
We can't type out any of the dialogue here, but a ribald twist on the UK's finest poet (or of them), combined with a plunge into a scenic lake, results in utter hilarity.
3. Duelling pistols or swords? (Bridget Jones's Diary)
Candidate for the most realistic movie fight ever? The scrap between Cleaver and Colin Firth's Mark Darcy famously wasn't choreographed, hence the laugh-induced injury to our ribs.
4. Meeting Paxman (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason)
At the outset of the sequel, Bridget, now shacked up with one-time enemy Mark Darcy, has largely (though not entirely) gotten over Daniel Cleaver, given he was revealed as the love rat who stole Mark's fiancée. Thankfully he still navigates the edges of the story, getting one jab in at veteran newsman Jeremy Paxman.
5. Fighting Mark Darcy... again (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason)
The stakes had to be raised in The Edge of Reason, so this time love rivals Cleaver and Darcy commence a new scrap that moves from an art gallery to an outdoor fountain, at which point Daniel seemingly gives up on Bridget for good.
6. Back from the dead (Bridget Jones's Baby)
We were bereft when Daniel was seemingly written out of the third Bridget Jones movie. However, upon discovering that Mark is the father of Bridget's child, there is another delightful twist, which demonstrates that Grant can steal a scene even when he's not physically present.
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