Pride and Prejudice (2003)

You won't be disappointed!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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.

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'.

some of the dialouge was a bit stilted, it felt like Elizabeth was reading the lines at one point from just beyond the camera.......that bothered me. It was an interesting adaptation.....and while I am not a big fan of the Mormon Church, it was a good way to parallel the 19th century.The best part was watching Seale as Darcy.....he is adorable. Otherwise I was tempted to fast forward through portions.I can guarantee I am not going to recommend this to my other friends who are Austen fans, with out heavy warning that it is Massively an advertisement for the Mormon Church - the DVD box had web addresses that I won't go near for fear that the LDS church will start knocking on my door.

If you watch this expecting an updated classic a la Bridget Jones or Clueless, you'll be very disappointed. But this version has its own campy charm. I watched this the same night as I watched the recent Keira Knightley adaptation. The Knightley version was modernized without seeming to know it; the character interactions and language struck me as too contemporary among the lavish sets and costumes. This version of Pride and Prejudice never tries to pass itself off as great art or writing, and in fact, it never takes itself very seriously at all. That made it a lot more enjoyable for me to watch. So if you don't go in expecting greatness, you might be able to enjoy it for what it is.