How a womens movie come out as a surprise

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2006)

First of all, I never read the book and I probably never will. This just isn't the kind of reading I prefer. And to be honest one more time: When I decided to watch this movie at our local cinema tonight I didn't really did it just because of the movie. But enough of this.
I expected something when I read and heard a lot about this movie. But what I finally saw came out as a surprise. There is some much that can be done about those old books to make a movie .. well .. best describe it as a movie only a middle aged woman would like. But thanks to Joe Wright, he didn't do anything of this but did all right.
And though the story hadn't much left for surprises, even if you didn't know the book, it kept me bounded to the end. Keira obviously did a fabulous job. Though there were some scenes like the one at the pavilion in the rain, which felled not really great I just loved her cockiness, her smile, her irony. I loved her play with Donald Sutherland, were a look did say more than 2 pages of phrases. And of course I'm gonna dream about big .. huge dark eyes tonight. Honestly, I would probably pay for a movie which had nothing in it but 2 hour close up of her face, her smile and her eyes. But back to the movie.
Brenda and Donald as the parents were hilarious. The father, plagued with a house with 5 teenage daughters and one furious wife. Brenda, who seemed to do anything to get her daughters married. And the 4 other daughters, each of whom had her role in this one. And filled it perfectly. Oh, and I almost forgot about the grand dame of English cinema, Judy Dench. The angry and old school (of course) Lady de Bourg.
My advice if you're a man: Grab your favorite girl, take her to the cinema and watch this movie. Or buy/rent the DVD. She'll love you more than before for taking her to this one and you also will have a great time.