Bridget Jones's Baby, The Clan and Hunt for the Wilderpeople The Film Review

him seventh fastest. Nico Rosberg sets the pace in second practice.

All that and much more at 6:30pm. Now it is time for the Film Review.

Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

Well, as I'm sure you must have noticed, there is a new Bridget

Jones movie, Bridget Jones's baby. Very different, we have The Clan, an

Argentinian crime thriller. And something very unusual, Hunt For The

Wilderpeople from New Zealand. Bridget Jones won, I liked, Bridget

Jones two, no. How is Bridget Jones three? It is somewhere in the

middle. Bridget Jones is back older but not necessarily wiser. We start

with her 43rd birthday and we wonder how she gets here again? Then fate

throws not one but two men in her path. One is Colin Firth's Mark

Darcy for whom she still holds a flame but then Patrick Dempsey's

online dating magnate who she meets at a muddy festival and she spends

the night in a glamping yurt. Then, it is not a plot spoiler because it

is the title, she finds out she's pregnant that is not sure which of

the two is the father. Here is the clip. You are single,

right? I suppose so. How did you two meet?

LAUGHTER It is sort of a funny story, sort

of! You see, a few months ago, on the fourth of the month I met Jack

at a music festival. Right. And we got on very well. And sort of, had,

relations. And the next thing, that is to say on the 11th of the month,

at Jude's baby's christening, to be precise, following the consumption

of a lot of alcohol, Mark and I had similar relations. And this is the

funny part. Owing to these relations, the resulting life form

currently residing in my tummy could in fact be either of yours.

I love the Italian waiter. You laughed three times in that clip! Is

a comedy makes you laugh six times it counts as a comedy so that easily

passed. The screenplay is co-written by Emma Thomson who has given

herself the best lines. Every time she is on screen it is relief funny

and almost every line she delivers is funny. Elsewhere, it is not so

even. It is very broad comedy, some gags work and some don't. Some are

past their tell by date. There is a routine about the gangland style

dance and a joke about cats which look like Hitler. That goes back to

the birth of the Internet. There is a funny scene with a revolving door.

And there is a huge amount of goodwill towards this character.

People do want this character, they root for the character of Bridget

Jones. Colin Firth looks spectacularly anguished in that

quite British way that he does or through the film. It is not great,

it is uneven. Every minute Emma Thompson is on screen, it is

terrific and for the rest of it, it is good enough. It is quite a relief

that it is not two posh British Loucks fighting for her, there is a

token American? Yes but there are is nothing you have not seen before. --

British blokes. It is a bit like meeting an old friend. Sometimes it

is awkward and sometimes it is different. But McDonald's has the

same hamburger every day. I am not sure you want to liken this to a

fast food chain! I just threw my pen across the table! Shall we move onto

The Clan? The story, which is rooted in reality is about the Puccio

family. This family hides this hideous kidnapping and murder.

Essentially, what the film does is counter pose scenes of Thomas the

city with scenes of really grim and grisly violence. -- domesticity.

This is done by the director using upbeat pop music counter exposed

with scenes of grim violence. There is the sense that this microcosm

represents something much larger and more sleeping corruption. And there

is an absolutely terrific performance by the lead actor who is

the white-haired steely eyed father, played by Guillermo Francella. He

keeps saying I am doing this for you. It is genuinely uncomfortable

viewing as it is meant to be but razor sharp stylistically. It is one

of those films you never relax into the Cusiter such -- you never relax

into because it is such a hard-hitting story. In those

Argentinian films the government is generally the bad guy in the

background. It is absolutely background noise all the way

through. The television and radio is on. It is rooted very clearly in its

time period. All the time you get the sense you are watching a small

version of something which is much wider. There is one section when a

colleague says the faces of the boss has changed but give it a while and

everything will go back to normal, and normal means quite terrible.

There are moments which are genuinely bone chilling. Now the

Hunt For The Wilderpeople. You said wilder people. I thought it was

wilder people but it is more like wildebeest. It is a hit which

deserves to do well in cinemas here. It is the story of a young orphan,

Ricky, played by Julian Denison who is sent to live on a rural farm with

foster parents a lap and uncle Ted. Here a clip which gives you a taste

of the tone of the film -- aren't a la and uncle Ted. I will need to

inspect your property to make sure it is up to our high standard. Fine.

What do you think? Yes, cool. We will come in in eight weeks or so

just to check on... Who is that Crocodile Dundee Guy? That is my

husband Hector. He is giving the pig at AD back. I see he has a rifle.

Just keep it away from this little guy. Who knows what he is capable

of? So he is all yours. No returns! Just joking! You have got my number

so give me a call. Goodbye, Ricky. Goodbye, Ricky.

I laughed six times! It is more consistently funny than Bridget

Jones but it is also more consistently poignant. What happens

is the young boy and Hec played by Sam Neill who you saw coming out of

the wilderness, they go into the wilderness tomorrow. The film is

about their relationship and the way they bicker and bond. It is really

poignant and really moving. It is often funny but in that strange

off-kilter, something is to do with the timing. It has a wonderful

rhythm to it. The scenery is fantastic but the film focuses in on

the central relationships with the characters. It does that thing you

want all movies to do, you end up caring about them. You end up caring

what happens and wanting things to work out for them. I saw this with a

bunch of different people and young and old alike all really enjoyed it.

They all got something out of it. Is it a bit like the animation Up? A

grumpy, overweight guy and a young kid, they should not get on but they

do. Until you mentioned that, that had not occurred to me but now I

will not be able to get it out of my head! What I will say is go and see

it, it is really terrific and really different. It is quite a good week.

Your Best of the week? Captain Fantastic. It is about a family

living in the forest. Is he the best father in the world or the worst

father in the world? They have to go into civilisation for a funeral. It

is terrific performances by the entire ensemble, particularly George

Mackay who continues to be one of our brightest rising stars and a

great central performance by the go Mortenson. And Green Room is your

recommendation? This is out on DVD. This is a story about a punk band

who end up playing in a rural road house which turns out to be full of

neo-Nazis led by Patrick Stewart. They then get trapped in the Green

Room after something terrifying happens. It is a really stripped

down siege/ stroke movie. It has really great performances. I did not

know which way it was going. It was a bit like Assault on Precinct 13,

meets River's Edge, via Deliverance. Any of those films I would go and

see. Probably starting with Hunter the wilder people. That really

deserves your patronage. Mark, thank you. -- Hunt For The Wilderpeople.

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