Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey talk about bromance

They might be love rivals on screen, but Colin Firth and newcomer Patrick Dempsey have become a real life bromance.

She has landed the Darcy (Colin Firth) of her dreams, but the course of true love isn't running too smoothly for Bridget. He's still a bit of a prig, and that charming Daniel (Hugh Grant) is still oozing about. The Thailand shenanigans (she's busted for drugs) are silly, but that down-to-earth Renée Zellweger charm sees this patchy sequel through, and paves the way for the follow-up, Bridget Jones's Baby, which is due on Friday.

Bridget Jones's Baby review

Renee Zellweger returns as a newly-pregnant Bridget Jones in this disappointing new instalment of the comedy franchise.

Bridget Jones's Baby review: "a bundle of joy"

Renée Zellweger's hapless heroine is pregnant - but unsure who the father is - in a comedy sequel that really delivers.

This adaptation of Helen Fielding's novels casts Renée Zellweger as a brilliant Bridget, piling on the pounds to transform herself into the singleton who eats, drinks and smokes too much and is looking for love - but with Hugh Grant's caddish Cleaver or Colin Firth's decent Darcy? Daffy, delicious fun.

Colin Firth is up for Bridget Jones 3

Could it be? Could Mark Darcy and Bridget Jones be coming back to the big screen?

Ben Whishaw replaces Colin Firth as voice of Paddington

Bond star Ben Whishaw is the new voice of Paddington Bear after Colin Firth "consciously uncoupled" from the role last month.

The English actor, 33, stepped in after Paddington director Paul King decided that a "slightly more open and younger voice" was needed.

Colin Firth leaves Paddington Bear film

Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth has pulled out of voicing the upcoming Paddington film.

The King's Speech star said he had been unable to find the right voice for the Peruvian bear.

Well, what else would you watch on Valentine's Day night? Whether you're a singleton or smug married, grab that tub of ice cream and snuggle down with this loveably rewatchable Brit comedy.

Bridget Jones, for anyone who's just arrived in Britain, is a mildly weight-obsessed, thirtysomething single woman with big mummy pants looking for love through a glass of Chardonnay.

She is portrayed, surprisingly well, by the normally size-zero US actress Renée Zellweger, who womanned up for the role by stuffing her face with pizza, Guinness, milk shakes and doughnuts. Talk about sacrifice for her art.

Anyway, the joy of this is watching Bridget's various, entirely relatable, mishaps and her mistakes with men, the lead contenders for her heart being Hugh Grant (dashing cad) and Colin Firth (uptight, haughty, dull).

The scene where they get it on - as in Hugh and Colin, as in having a big girlie fist fight - is a hands-down classic. YouTube it if you need a giggle.

Joseph Fiennes (where's he been lately, eh?) is the titular playwright, here a struggling up-and-comer suffering from writer's block on his latest script, provisionally titled Romeo And Ethel, The Pirate's Daughter. What with women being forbidden to act on stage, Shakespeare casts a youth called Thomas Kent as Romeo, only to discover 'he' is actually a rich man's daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow).

However, their true love instantly hits obstacles: he's poor and already married, she's betrothed to Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) and, from thence onwards, the course of true love never runs smooth. It's brilliantly witty, light and packed with superb performances including Judi Dench who won a best supporting Oscar as Queen Elizabeth despite only being on screen for eight minutes.