I'd say a good 80% of the UK know who this fictional character is.
Bridget Jones' Diary (both film and book), changed the way single women in their thirties were perceived.
Not only that, but it changed single women in their thirties' outlook on life.
Okay, it may not have changed every single woman in their thirties in Britain, but I'd say a fair few.
It had a huge impact, not only in the UK but worldwide.
So when fans heard of a third book being written; Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, excitement was probably an understatement.
Then came the negatives...
First the fans hear of Mr Darcy being killed off. A huge fan favourite and leaving Bridget a widow, on the hunt for love again.
We don't want to see this. It's been done.
Then the reviews...
Christina Patterson from the Sunday Times said:
"It isn't just the style that jars, the random capital letters, the subjectless sentences, the mannerisms that now seem awfully tired.
It isn't just the rather hysterical tone. It isn't even the pile-up of clichés: the room that 'looked like a bomb had hit it' or the stare 'like a rabbit caught in the headlights'.
Or the fact that Fielding will never just give two or three examples — of funny self-help books, of children's names that sound like Latin declensions — when she can give 10. It's the fact that I hardly believed a word of it."
There's no denying that those words are hard for me to read.
However, if there's one thing I've learned from reviewing films, is not to run with the crowd.
Yes, these are established critics. But well-known critics have an infamous tendency to write similar reviews.
It's almost like the popular clique at school.
So you want my advice?
Read it yourself.
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy is released in the UK on the 10th October 2013.
