Bridget Jones “Mad about the Boy” ****SPOILERS*****

[DoingthefullGareth]

Ding fucking Dong!

What a lovely, if emotional watch.

Favourite bits:

Bridget getting her diary and pen out again and the film “truly” starting.

“Modern Love” dance with the kids.

Flash backs to Mark.

Cleaver remembering he has an estranged son and making contact.

🤣🤣 Tesco meal deal faux pas

🤣🤣🤣 “I had the most amazing sex” in front of a studio audience

Daniel and Bridget’s relationship now.

🥲🥲🥲 Bridget’s dad in his last days.

🥲🥲 Bridget realising that the relationship with Roxter cannot continue

🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 “I’ll do anything”

Both of the kids really made it for me. And perfect Nicolette. Amazing directing and casting. Billy’s song and proud smile at the end. I’d have liked more of the little girl Mabel as she was so like the film, hilarious and so so moving at the same time. Reminded me a lot of the daughter in Mad Men. Would have liked to have seen them with their grandmother as love Gemma Jones instead of the Isla Fisher cameo. Wonder if scenes were cut out. I’d put money on the actress being Hermione Granger or the actor being Harry Potter!

I saw this last night and really liked it. Dragged DH along who hadn't seen any of the films and he enjoyed it too. I thought it was a great homage and wrap-up to the whole series.

Although I saw an interview with Helen Fielding on TV later and she said when she rewatched the first film with sleazy Cleaver/hand on bum/Titz-Pervert etc she was really glad we had moved on and we wouldn't make that kind of film today, and referenced 'Me Too'.

I was like, whaddya mean?! Cleaver was just as sleazy, as was his son... and sexism and creepy behaviour hasn't miraculously disappeared just because you shake your head and say 'very bad' at it. So yeah... but I loved all the 'easter eggs'. Just knew that swimming pool was going to host a wet shirt at some point.

The only thing that tripped me up was the ages. Little Mabel is meant to be 4. Mark was born in 1966 (it said in his obituary, glimpsed). Bridget is 4 years younger (according to the naked paddling pool story in film 1). So 54 in the film. So she had Mabel when she was 50? I dunno. Plus a preeeety big age gap with a 29 year old...

I think Mabel is meant to be 6 and Billy about 9/10. That’s what I read somewhere

Ah fairs. I read this from some news site: "It’s the first entry in the franchise to be undercut by a note of genuine sadness, leaving Bridget (Renée Zellweger) the widowed mother of two small children: 9-year-old Billy (Casper Knopf) and 4-year-old Mabel (Mila Jankovic)."

Mabel did seem a little older than 4, tbf.

I thought the same, but can't remember why. I'm sure at some point in the movie Bridget actually says she's 53 or 54.

I have an old school friend who has just had her first baby at 49 - complete miracle as she's wanted DCs for years & it's never happened (& contributed to her divorce from her first husband) then she got married again a couple of years ago & boom - miracle baby! So it does happen & happen naturally!

As per the official plot synopsis, Darcy has been killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan, leaving a fifty-something Bridget with 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, stuck in a ‘state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends’.

Everywhere I saw it was 9 and 4 which made sense with how they acted

Maybe it helped your friends understand your life a little better.
It's a shame you feel the need to hold back tears among friends.
I am sorry you find yourself widowed.

Gosh I absolutely LOVED it! Perfect screenwriting from Helen Fielding. I loved the book too. Fielding lost her own husband, and the whole thing felt authentic in its grief.

The snippets of Colin Firth made me sob!

The children - especially Mabel - were so delightful!

Leo Woodall was so hot! Renee Zellweger was absolutely hilarious and brilliant.

What a wonderful film.

In the book, Bridget and that character are friends. So I thought we’d see more of her in the film too.

In the book they’re that age. But in the film they’re clearly something like 7 and 10. Mabel’s top adult teeth are growing in, which makes her look 7/8. She was absolutely adorable in that role. I think I read that the director said she was the first child actor he’d worked with who wasn’t trying to be cute, who was just being herself, which was a very Bridget way to be!

I must have imagined it but I was sure that the child turned out to be the other bloke's at the end of the last movie. Maybe I need to watch it again!

Would the children's ages be from when Darcy died 4 years ago?

No it turned out to be Marks and they reconciled

The Isla Fisher cameo was weird. It felt like a bit was cut from the film? Why bother. So half hearted.
Otherwise a brilliant watch

Ah thanks. I thought that they were getting married anyway (because, true love) even though it wasn't his child.

No it was right at the end of the last film. She walks up the aisle and both Mark and the other guy are there. Then she marries Mark and he refers to the boy as his son.

At the end of the last film, Billy was about 1 or 2. A toddler anyway. In the latest film he seems to be under 11 as he’s at primary school.

I’d say Mabel was 5/6. I work with that age group.

saw it today, really liked it, although not enough funny moments. I liked all the references to previous films.
Only things I didn't like were:

1. the neighbour - I mean what's the point and the never meet your heroes line doesn't work without an explanation
2. not enough Pam and Una
3. Daniel just isn't as sleazy or funny anymore and that was the essence of the character

I just wish Renee didn’t pull such silly faces. Who does that? Why couldn’t she open her eyes? She looked totally bonkers at times

Universal say the kids are 9 and 4, it's reported everywhere, they may be badly cast/directed but the intention is those ages.

https://www.universalpictures.co.uk/micro/bridget-jones?gadsource=1&gbraid=0AAAAAq26l33p8TqasY00s1vR9l4QQ1Ea&gclid=CjwKCAiAtsa9BhAKEiwAUZAszaWI2aQ4CkIBUPDb5nvIEQnCMXHhFPa-aAC2qlNFuxTw12iRstoGmhoC98oQAvD_BwE

I didn't realise that the actress who plays Chloe is Thandie Newton's daughter. No wonder she looks familiar. She looks really like her.

Absolutely.

I sat with tears rolling my face for so much of it .

So emotional.

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@thefemaleJoshLyman my dad isn't well either so the references to him being all around us and within us made me want to roar with emotion 😢