Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

s-82414 Bride and Prejudice, a roller coaster film, sparked a new fusion between two remarkably different cultures: Hollywood and Bollywood. This movie enthralled its audience by introducing a particularly unique love story among two opposites of the spectrum, a girl named Lalita Bakshi who was raised in a conservative household, and the American businessman, Will Darcy, who was always entailed in a modern lifestyle due to his upbringing. Undoubtedly, these star crossed lovers were involved in the inevitable arguments, judgements, and prejudice-as they encountered each other when the two didn't expect it. As trouble arose, it was clear to see how very different conflicts could be resolved by two types of cultures. All in all, I was indifferent about the movie. Although many types of emotions came from every direction, the film was predictable in many aspects. Furthermore, it was very easy to understand the film as a whole. The plot line was rather common but still original compared to other types of Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Compared to other traditional Bollywood films, there weren't as many scenes that didn't match the plot line. For example, in a classic Bollywood film, a girl and boy would be fighting because they wouldn't be able to get along well; five minutes later, they would be dancing and laughing together. In Bride and Prejudice, the story made sense and didn't falter in a way a classic Bollywood movie would. More specifically, when Lalita met Darcy's secret girlfriend, Anne, she was agitated and didn't speak to Darcy until he apologized for his actions. There was no dance number in between these scenes. Moreover, the acting in this film was very over-dramatized compared to Hollywood films. Though, this is very common among Bollywood films because the audience loves overacting and capturing drama which eventually make scenes more interesting. In the movie, Lalita's mother exaggerated her phrases as if she was always in a distressed state. Usually in a Hollywood movie, a background character wouldn't be as prominent as a main character in their words. Continuing on, the song/dance sequences were amazingly opposite and important for the plot line. In this film, the audience wouldn't have known Darcy and Lalita were on a date unless a song hadn't featured. Of course, Bollywood music was also very different than classic Hollywood. Various types of instruments and sounds were played (fast/slow) respectively to the mood of the scene. Bride and Prejudice was perfectly in the middle of Hollywood and Bollywood. The ending made this perfectly clear since a traditional Bollywood or Hollywood would never feature the different elements presented: a biracial wedding and resolved drama. As for cultural elements, the aspects of Indian norms were extremely distinct from the American norms. Starting out with couples, Mr. and Mrs. Bakshi most likely had an arranged marriage. They expected love to come from within after their partnership was planned. But for couples like Jaya and Balraj, they expected their love to grow and their relationship to bloom from the love they received from their family. On the other hand, Lalita and Darcy expected that their families would only learn to accept the love they wanted to cherish. Without a doubt, these three couples experienced love from three different perspectives. The director of this film, Gurinder Chahad, was most likely trying to convey that cross cultural relationships do not always have to to have something in common, reiterating the fact that, "opposites do attract."

JLRVancouver Gurinder Chadha does an admirable job of transferring Jane Austen's famous characters and story to modern day India. There are four daughters in the Bakshi family, which lives in a grand, but somewhat rundown home in Amritsar (a bit of an Indian backwater I gather). Handsome and successful London based lawyer Balraj (Naveen Andrews) arrives along with his supercilious sister (Indira Varma, familiar to many as Game of Throne's venomous Ellaria Sand), and handsome and very rich buddy Will Darcy (Martin Henderson). Anyone familiar with Pride and Prejudice will recognize the characters and set-up and know that another couple of men are on the way (duplicitous Johnny Wickham and obsequious Mr. Kohli) and that romance will be in the air, much to the excitement of high-strung Mrs Bakshi (Nadira Babbar). Chadra does a good job of modernizing the classic story, staying true when possible but making changes to scenes that just would not be creditable these days (e.g. the burden of 'debt' is much reduced) and the concept of 'inherited class' and associated opportunity that is central to Austen's Regency England tale is replaced by more generic snobbery and cultural ignorance. While there is still stratification in Indian society, 'caste' never comes into the story: the setting is the sub-continent but the 'values' are very Western (IMO). Typical Bollywood (in my limited experience), the film is unsubtle, bright, flashy and colourful, with lots of spontaneous singing and dancing by good-looking, stylish people. What 19th century spinster Jane Austen would make of the 21st century fashion and dancing is hard (but fun) to imagine. Good, harmless fun that should not upset Austen purists (if it does, they should examine their own pride and prejudice) and may help bring the attention of another generation to a timeless book.

Alexander Schuchardt_4173375 What did I just watch? The movie mainly had to do with a rich American man named William Darcy and a Indian girl named Lalita. The movie started in India where William and his friend were attending a wedding. This is where they first meet, and the first encounter wasn't very good.Following this Lalita didn't have a view of William until the end of the movie. The rest of the movie had to do with their love journey and how the will fall in love. This was one of the least favorite movies I have ever seen. I am a newbie when it comes to watching Bollywood movies. But if they're all like this I think I will stick to Hollywood movies. I thought the acting was OK but most of the scene were just cringe worthy.Also the one actor who sounded like a donkey was not entertaining, he was just very annoying and I wish they realizes how annoying that actually was. The plot was OK but very predictable the two people who don't like each other end up falling in love. Very original. I never want to hear another Bollywood song ever again. All the songs beside my lips are waiting were just awful. No Life without Wife made me want to be deaf. I was like listening to Rebeca black's Friday, that's how bad it was. Also it didn't look like they were trying to lip sync it was very obvious they were not singing. Also they had so many pointless songs that we could have gone without. The dances were pretty cool, I liked them for the most part except the snake dance. That made me want to hit my forehead with my palm. But the opening dance was the best part of the entire movie. It had a good start just to crash land. If only the movie was ten minutes long. The sets were pretty cool they one of the only bright spots in a horrible movie.The costumes look very authentic to what you would see in a Bollywood film. I would call this movie more Bollywood because American movies don't have horrendous songs every ten minutes that are really pointless. And the story line was so predictable, in a American movie there would have been a plot twist.What Cultural elements i learned about Indian parents are they gold diggers who just are looking out for them and don't care about what there kids think. Just about how much money the husband has. Also how bad it must feel to be in the kids situation being forced to marry someone that they barely met and know almost nothing about them. Another thing I learned was how uncommon it is for Indian to marry someone of a different ethnicity. They want their grandchildren to be traditional Indians. Also I learned that if you are younger you can't marry until the eldest has married. So if they don't' want to get married you are out of luck. Overall I learned a lot about Indian culture but It was such a bad movie.

Leigh Pomeroy Those who have read and/or have seen one or more of the umpteen bajillion screen versions of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will find this film a hoot. It is actually an Americanized version of a Bollywood film, shorter than most the traditional Bollywood films and filled with plenty of the queen's English for any American to understand.Those who take it seriously won't get the overall humor and pure, old-style Hollywood/Bollywood musical/dancing/simplistic love story enjoyment. Anyone who just wants to have fun at a film: Watch it and be prepared to smile.WARNING: Best viewed with others who have a light-hearted, open-for-fun sense of humor.