8 Reasons You Won’t Want to Miss Bridget Jones’s Baby

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – AUGUST 22: Renee Zellweger and franchise newcomer Patrick Dempsey pose for a photograph during a media opportunity for Bridget Jones’s baby at the Park Hyatt Sydney on August 22, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cole Bennetts/Getty Images)

The Glamping

In response to Bridget turning 43, her friend and co-worker Miranda takes her on a girls’ weekend. Bridget, thinking she’s headed for a sophisticated spa weekend, dresses in flat shoes and spotless white pants, but when she falls in the mud at her new vacation spot, she realizes she’s been taken somewhere else entirely. Instead of a spa, Miranda’s brought her to a wild festival, a huge open-air fair with ticket takers on stilts, costumed performers with hula hoops, loud concerts, and tents set up outdoors—basically a circus designed for grownups to drink and hook up. When Bridget complains she’s too old for this, Miranda glamorizes their camping by referring to it as “glamping.”

I loved the playful feel of this circus-like setting, and I want more movies set at events like this. Like maybe all of them. It’s at the glamping where Bridget meets Jack, the “shiny new American” whose tent she mistakenly stumbles into at night and then starts taking off her clothes. (Because of course she does.) She thinks she’s talking to Miranda and saying that all her friends are probably correct in saying she needs a “good shafting,” and, well, sometimes you get what you wish for.

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