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”

I've no clue about Easter eggs either & still none the wiser after reading that link?!

Umm, thanks for the link, I really wasn’t aware of this terminology, and am struggling to see what the eggs in Mad About The Boy were

You and me both!

I've been racking my brains to remember an Easter egg scene but now realise it means hidden messages in the film. Like an Easter egg hunt I suppose 🤷‍♀️

Some of the Easter Eggs I noticed- blue soup in BJD1, this time round, blue cocktails, Her son wearing dad's jumper from first movie. The kiss in the snow reminiscent of her first kiss with Mark. The Netflix password - All by Myself, which she famously sang in BjD1. The same clothes in Other movies- red penguin pyjamas, see through top,
New Year's party wearing party hat/deely boppers same as in first film. Walking through Borough market where she used to live.

Thank you…. I noticed most of those but thought of them as tying it all together nicely rather than anything else, particularly not a hidden message! But thanks for response.

We’ve been to see it tonight, I loved it. Loved the nods to the previous films.

I do really need to see it again though, not just because I enjoyed it so much but I missed a 10 minute chunk of it when my sister called to discuss our elderly father. I ignored her first call (phone was on silent, had a notification on my watch) but when she then called again I thought it might be important so went to the lobby to return the call.

I hated the balloon bit too - I was just thinking ‘pollution!’ so I didn’t find it at all moving.

Re ‘Easter eggs’, as a pp said, it’s like an Easter egg hunt in that they’re treats for the fans to find. I love them. Noticed lots in this.

All the party guests at Magda and Jeremy’s - I think they had mostly the same actors as in BJD, except it was a different Jeremy.
Blue soup/cocktails
Jude licking her orange slice garnish/the marmalade that Bridget made in the first film.
All the clothes that were from the other films, such as the absolutely massive pants, the pyjama top, see through ‘like-your-tits’ top. I’m pretty sure that blue dress she wore to meet Roxster was in the second film, or one very like it.
That she tried all the outfits on for Shazza like she had with the taxi driver in BJEoR
Daniel calling her a dirty bitch I found amusing, and I did laugh at the filthy bitch cocktail.
The reindeer jumper - which obviously wasn’t the same jumper Mark Darcy had worn, as that would be far too big; it was just the same style.
Roxster in a wet shirt - very ‘actual’ Mr Darcy (as played by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice).
Tom saying ‘come the fuck on, Bridget!’ I always loved that line.

I’m sure there were more, I just can’t remember them right now.

It was better than I'd anticipated (bar the bloody balloon scene), and genuinely moving in the way certain aspects of widowhood were portrayed. I'm a widow myself and had something in my eye at times. Well-paced and suitably non-frenetic.

Going the Lake District for a remarkably ill-prepared outward bound trip at primary level was far-fetched. I thought all London schools went to the Devil's Punchbowl

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Ah I forgot about the Lake District scene, so glad I didn't bring DH. He would have just spent the rest of the film marvelling at the lunacy of wearing denim dungarees on a hike to the Lake District. They would have been totally sodden after the downpour.

Yes! I spotted that. Denim and dungarees. Stupid as.

So no explanation for Daniel’s death?

He came back at the end of the last movie. He wasn't dead.

Thank you - I noticed all of those & loved them but didn't know they were called Easter eggs. To me they're a nod to the previous films & make me feel nostalgic - didn't know there was an actual name! Every day is a school day!

Did he? I don’t remember that. What was the explanation for the fake death?

How bizarre that they’re called Easter eggs! It’s just normal in a film series to carry some things through isn’t it?

Easter eggs are different to running themes or continuity. They can relate to future films (I think Marvel do this) or other films actors have done etc. just little things that don't affect the plot.

Just because a woman is intelligent doesn't mean she can't appreciate a good looking man. It was meant to be a bit of fun.

I was glad she ended up with the guy who was a similar age to her though.

As a muddle aged woman I wouldn't want a younger partner.

Am I alone in thinking Roxster wasn’t as swoonsome as everyone else (in the film) seemed to think? They did have more chemistry than Bridget and Mr Walliker, though.

Re Easter eggs, I think they started off as extras on dvds that were actually ‘hidden’ within the dvd menu - as in you had to click on something in the menu titles and an unexpected deleted scene or something suchlike would pop up. That’s where I first heard of them anyway. But now the term is used for callbacks, too.

I don’t think they explained anything in the last film re Daniel not being dead. I seem to recall there was just a newspaper headline and that same newspaper was hanging in a frame in the hall of Bridget’s house in this film. So another ‘Easter egg’!

Plus the name Roxster is pretty cringe. Is it supposed to be a play on rock star? If so, yuk.

How is a reference to a previous film in the same series of films an Easter egg? It's like saying "hey she was called Bridget in the last film too!"

I think Leo Woodall who played Roxter is good-looking but far too young for me. I don't think him & Bridget went well together.
Overall I loved the film.

I found the film Lonely Planet was cringe with Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth because of the age difference.

I think he had a memorial not a funeral - his body was not found (due to him being alive!)