Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Pros: Fun, great performances, wonderful music and photography
Cons: Not everyone will like the slightly modernised feel, problematic pacing in the first section

Pride & Prejudice is an updated film version of the Jane Austen classic - an another film that we Brits appear to have been privileged to see before the rest of the world! :-D For the rest of you though, believe me it will be worth the wait. ...

Pros: Donald Sutherland, the locations, artistic details.
Cons: The pace. Too much story packed into two hours.

Recently I had the opportunity to sit through this film about three times on a very long flight. Having been a fan of Jane Austen's work ever since I was an impressionable young teen, I was looking forward to taking in this adaptation of what is probably ...

Pros: Cinematography; creative visuals that lend fluidity to narrative; Macfadyen; Woods
Cons: Pacing; odd interpretations of key roles (especially Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); overwrought romantic tone

Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen never met. They're both now remembered as great English novelists who created complex heroines, but if you put them side by side on a time line you would see that they just barely overlap. Austen died in 1817, a year ...

Pros: source material, Sutherland, nice looking, decent overall
Cons: pales in comparison to Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility

A few years back, I was introduced to the Jane Austen classic Sense and Sensibility. It quickly became one of my favorite books, and Emma Thompson’s masterful adaptation one of my favorite movies. My ...

Pros: The story's still beautiful...
Cons: ...even when it's not presented properly.

I debated with myself for a long time about whether or not to watch the latest film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I’m often hesitant to watch adaptations of my favorite books, but this one especially, since I thought it had ...

Pros: Direction, Script, Cinematography, Look, Production, & Cast.
Cons: Things That Got Cut from the Book & McFayden Being a Bit Too Mopey.

Novelist Jane Austen has been known for creating witty and fantastic romantic novels during the 19th Century. Several of them had become films like Sense & Sensibility in 1995 by director Ang Lee that starred Emma Thompson who won an award ...

Pros: mostly true to the story, Charlotte Lucas, sweeping backdrops, Darcy's proposal, retains some dialogue
Cons: many abbreviations and deletions, some badly gutted characters, most actors underused or inadequate

Elizabeth Bennett and her four sisters are squired about by their rather silly mother who desperately wants to marry them all off. They go to all of the local parties and are firmly accepted in their rural society. When rich gentleman Charles Bingley ...

Pros: The ensemble, the scenery, costuming, music. The sense of "realism" the director brings.
Cons: Too little in detail, lead male miscast (?), love story falls a little flat.

I was fortunate to see the early, limited release version of “Pride and Prejudice” the other evening; the film opens in America, widely, on November 23. Joe Wright was cast to direct the latest version of “Pride and Prejudice”. ...

Pros: Youthful Bennet sisters, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Matthew MacFayden, Simon Woods; photography and music
Cons: The badly mangled screenplay destroys essence of the story; subplots obliterated; several bad casting decisions

At my house, the release of a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a big event indeed. We linked up with another family of "Austenites" and made it a party event. The weekend preceding the big event, my youngest daughter, Alina ...

Pros: Music, setting, pace, story, acting
Cons: Knightley's vaguely disingenuous smile-- otherwise, not much

There are several things about which I have some measure of expertise, but Jane Austen’s late 18th Century novel Pride and Prejudice and its many TV and film adaptations are most definitely not counted among them. I have the faintest memories ...

Pros: Good supporting cast, hits most of the important character-development scenes.
Cons: Leads competent but mis-cast. Social commentary lacking. Sexual chemistry absent.

This "yet another" adaptation's biggest accomplishment is coming in at just about 2 hours. It does okay but misses enough of the key notes to leave the end product tepid and without real passion. I don't think anyone will be falling in love with this ...

Pros: Tastes great
Cons: Less filling

The 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley, is the latest in a long string of attempts to bring Jane Austen's 1811 classic love story to the screen. Charles Dickens may well have been reviewing this movie when he wrote, "It ...

Pros: Alive with a beating pulse, music, naturalistic settings, excellent portrayals, electric chemistry between leads.
Cons: A superfluous ending scene; otherwise, nil.

The latest on-screen reprise of Jane Austen's eternal classic, 'Pride and Prejudice', wastes no time in thrusting you squarely into the unromantic part of the late 18th/early 19th century English countryside, replete with free-ranging poultry and ...

Pros: Performances. Direction. Cinematography. Wit.
Cons: Rough ending.

A friend and I indulged in some coffee after viewing Pride & Prejudice. We discussed how she'd told her ex-boyfriend, "We were never in love, it was all fake, what you were feeling wasn't real." Hours before that, I would have said, "Eh. Big ...

Pros: Beautifully filmed and a treat for the eyes. Stays pretty close to the book.
Cons: It's too short to do the book full justice.

I've lost count of how many films have been made of Jane Austen's best-loved book, but this latest release is far from the worst. That dubious honor in my view goes to the 1942 movie that had the characters parading around in what looked like wardrobe ...