Pride and Prejudice, Cut

I thought it was a fun twist to the classic Pride and Prejudice tale. I enjoyed it and always surprised how many haters there are out there.

This was not a film about p&p but a behind the scenes look at the cast making such a film. The Casting director aced it with this one. Lexi had the chance to show the world just how talented she is, and the lead characters had chemistry from their first scene together. It's refreshing to see a male actor who can actually do romance.

Haven't seen such a bad film in a long time. No chemistry, bad acting, depressing atmosphere, and totaly unrealistic and naive.

The premise of this film is clever: as a new version of Pride and Prejudice is filmed we see that the actors playing the roles are engaged in their own version of Austin's book. Unfortunately, the limited budget handicaps this production. The actors are good but the weak script pulls them down a bit. I liked the strong positive nature of the female lead. She's strong but kind and you can almost believe she'd have 8 million followers on her vlog. The actor playing Liam who plays Darcy definitely looks the part. But it's all just a bit too tepid. Stronger writing would have compensated for the lack of budget.

Wonderfully silly fun even for Austen diehards. Acknowledge that the book is sublime and that no visual transfer can ever come close to the subtleties of her writing, so take your curlers out you prim uptight would-be reviewers, loosen your corsets and relax with this riff on P&P, sit back and enjoy the film whatever its faults and omissions.