Vanity Fair

Pros: really none... maybe the costumes?
Cons: story, chemistry between actors, too many open ended plots

Director Mira Nair brought to life a classic novel by William Thackeray, about a woman who wanted nothing more than to climb the social ladder. Her ascension to the higher classes of her social surroundings was the task she set to herself from a very ...

Pros: James Purefoy, Bob Hospkins, and Geraldine McEwan, music, production values...
Cons: ... Reese isn't a convincing English woman, plodding storyline, characters you can't care about

Vanity Fair is a modern adaptation of the novel by William Makepeace Thackery which I must confess I’ve never read. I have also not seen any other film or TV versions of it, so I had no preconceptions whatsoever before watching it. It was ...

Pros: The Commentary, costumes, cinematography music and aspects of the performances in that order
Cons: The story still sucks. I can’t bring myself to admire Becky. I tried.

VANITY FAIR, Indian film-maker Mira Nair’s interpretation of Thackeray’s novel, was surprisingly entertaining. It earned an amazing O on the granniemose sleep-o-meter, and even I watched with fairly close attention, although I was ...

Pros: Direction, performances, story and costumes.
Cons: A few too many characters leave you feeling distanced.

GRADE: B+ The opening scene in director Mira Nair's lavish period piece, "Vanity Fair," a little too obviously displays the underlying nature of its main character, Becky Sharp. As a young and clearly poor Becky plays with her puppets, looming over ...

Pros: I didn't pay $14.00 to see it in IMAX.
Cons: I didn't pay $14.00 to see Spiderman 2 in IMAX instead.

va·pid Pronunciation: 'va-p&d Function: adjective Etymology: Latin vapidus flat-tasting; akin to Latin vappa vapid wine and perhaps to Latin vapor steam 1: lacking liveliness, tang, briskness, or force: FLAT, ...

Pros: Visually dazzling, several good performances
Cons: softened lead character, tough book adaptation, easy to see Witherspoon's pregnant when character isn't

Mira Nair must've been looking for a challenge when she decided to turn Vanity Fair into a feature length film. This sprawling novel touches on many different themes and involves a multitude of characters. She does some chopping, incorporates the roles ...

Pros: Witherspoon, Atkins, Hoskins. Cinematography, art direction, sets and costumes
Cons: Distant characterizations and deflated class critiques

The umpteenth cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's witty gargantuan novel, Vanity Fair is given a colourful and palpable rendition from veteran Indian filmmaker Mira Nair. The story details social climber, (or is it ...

Pros: The key gripping and best boying were first rate.
Cons: The script, acting, directing, makeup, hair design, and lighting were a complete abomination.

What an utter abomination of a movie. It truly makes one wonder if the makers read any more of the book than the title - and even that seems to have been beyond their understanding. They seem to have thought the point of the novel was that vanity was, not only a good thing to be trumpeted, but also a valid theory of film making.