Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Aiden Melton
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
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.
london_scorpio
As an Austen adaptation this is truly awful! The characters may have taken on the names from the novel but they did not have the depth. I never thought I could not care about Mr. Darcy but in this film I didn't fall in love him. He began the film as a man who thought he was better than all those around him and at the end of the film he had barely changed. He declared his attraction to Elizabeth before the two had even really had any interaction and so i didn't feel for his internal struggle. Because of this the love aspect fell a little flaccid. I didn't believe in the passionate love that IS the book and so when the two finally get together in the end I didn't have a great sense of satisfaction. Darcy told Elizabeth all about his past with Wickham in a way that didn't really make him seem as an injured party and her reaction to the email was pathetic. She spent the next week eating ice cream and feeling depressed over a man who she didn't really know. The only time I felt that the two were getting to really know each other was at the cabin and that was right towards the end of the film leaving little room for a true romantic build up.As an adorer of love stories I'd be lying if I said I wasn't glad that the two ended up together and as a romance film it's not bad. As an Austen adaption however it's awful. It didn't warrant the title of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
laurraine
As a fan of Jane Austen, I found this movie interesting in an intellectual way. It's very clever in the way it has translated Austen's characters to modern-day Mormon society.The problem with the movie is that it is not at all emotionally engaging. The characters don't seem like real people. Rather they seem like caricatures. This is a cartoon more than a serious film.Still it is entertaining as far as it goes. I tend to be a completist as far as Jane Austen goes, so I will go pretty far out of my way to see any treatment inspired by her works.I think the filmmakers had the right idea. Jane Austen makes fun of her society, and this film makes fun of modern-day Mormon society. However, while Jane Austen succeeded in making her characters sympathetic and real, the filmmakers have failed in that respect.With these caveats in mind, I recommend the movie to all Jane Austen completists. Even if you don't care for the movie at all, I think you need to see it.
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.
