ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

rickchris-141-832806 Oh, please. If someone is going to use the name of one of the truly great English-language novels ever written as the title of his/her/its movie, it had better be (1) pretty darned good and (2) decently faithful to the intent of the novel. Otherwise, call it something else. In this case, using "Pride and Prejudice" is a gross insult to the intelligence of even modestly intelligent movie-goers and to the creative genius of Jane Austen.Compare this to an outstanding, perhaps the greatest, visual rendering of the novel: The 1995 Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth BBC television series made into a seamless 300-minute movie. It is superb in every way, a nearly flawless production with fewer identified errors of various sorts in it than are normally reported in a movie of more typical length. Then there is this sad spectacle. It would not be so offensive had it been named something like "Twits and Tittering" or "Plodding Petulance"--anything but Austen's own title. This is something like making a mediocre-or-worse movie about break-dancing and calling it The Holy Bible.One cannot say too little about this movie: It is embarrassingly poor. That is quite little enough to say.

violaine72 This was a truly awful film that did not just butcher butcher the basic plot and manage to be more retrograde than the nearly 200-year old society upon which Austen commented. It also even managed to be stickily pious and insult Mormons simultaneously. Last I checked, Mormons couldn't have caffeine, so the blatant product placement for Diet Coke and the repeated eating of chocolate ice cream were especially absurd. Mostly, however, while the lead character was referred to as feminist several times, she appeared in fact pathetically simple--her only apparent effort at independence involved writing a romance novel. I am not an Austen purist, by the way; I was hoping for a fun entertaining update of an Austen novel of the sort offered by clueless. This was an utter waste of time.

swisscheeeeeez There are a great many negative comments on this movie, mostly by people who seem to abhor the very idea of it. Well, that's their prerogative. But is it really that dreadful? Ought an Austen-lover to scream in horror, and then flee in disgust? Is it truly a horrid idea, one that ought never to have seen the light of cinema?NO! It's not sacrilege; it's fun, and rather hilarious in bits, and perhaps a little silly. As much could be said, perhaps, of a great many other interpretations of the story. As someone who is a great admirer of the Great Author Austen, I am a little surprised by the violent reaction of my fellow devotees. But since all the less-than-brilliant aspects have been expounded upon at length, let us mention the better ones.1) the cinematography. Quite amazing.2) the characterizations. One truly does dislike Mr. Darcy in the beginning, as one ought. Kitty and Lydia are properly silly, Lizzy a little impetuous. And Mr. Bingley, while perhaps a tad more dense than the original, certainly has the same sort of personality. And Mr. Collins is astoundingly perfect. 3) the screenplay. It isn't MEANT to be what Austen wrote; it's how things might happen now. And it's done hilariously, particularly the small ironic bits frequently thrown in.

lutheranchick Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is not just a clever romance. It contains strong criticism against a society that punished women for their intelligence, created an upper class for whom working for a living was disgraceful, and operated through social interactions that could make true, intimate friendship difficult. The novel depicts intense pressure on young women to marry, and marry early-- and shows how such marriages can end in tragedy. This movie, however, is almost completely free of serious criticism of Mormon society. Instead, it is full of silly characters doing silly things, wearing foolish outfits and lobbing objects at each other in case you didn't understand that it was supposed to be a comedy. Apparently the pressure to marry that young Mormons feel is really kind of a hoot.