Pride and Prejudice, Cut

Amidst the popular "strong, independent woman" midset today, this modern-day P&P shows otherwise that inner beauty is strength and integrity is independence from being a people-pleaser. Dream big. Work hard. Be kind. And maintain character and integrity.

Simple yet wholesome story, nice twists with fun laughs. Wonderful acting, especially Lexi and David. Clean and family-friendly.

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

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.

This could have been a better romance than the typical but unfortunately the fan service parallels between the story and P&P are completely undermined by being wrapped around the the worst adaptation of P&P I have ever seen. Apparently the writer(s) thought they could write better than Jane Austen, and unfortunately they have nothing to offer there.

It was quickly apparent that the story told in the film was a thinly-veiled parody of Pride and Prejudice itself, and not very well done at that. Philippa saying "I'm hearing something alarming" in particular was a very bad parody of Catherine de Bourgh.

Apart from all the other negative points, the whole basis of the film was flawed. People were shocked at the idea of an American woman playing Lizzie Bennett, supposedly a quintessentially English role. Does nobody remember Jennifer Ehle (American, though born to a British mother) playing Lizzie Bennett in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice?