I'm quite put out!!!

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2006)

It's probably impossible to rate this version without comparing it to the 1995 BBC version, which is longer(you get to know the characters), better casted(way better) and more fun.
This version is so short that when you are used to the BBC version it just feels rushed and characters and balls have been completely cut out. Lydia is back home almost before she has run away (or so it feels).
The casting is not very good. The only one who matches the 1995 version is Mr. Collins. He is really good (although not as fun) in this one. He is very annoying which is his job :) Many of the lines are delivered in a very flat manor. For example "Are the shades of Pemberly....blah blah". She does not sound REALLY disgusted by the very thought. It's like the line is just read without any feeling behind it.
Miss Caroline Bingley is noway as sophisticated as when portrayed by Anna Chancellor. Mr. Bingley is almost too goofy but I have not read the novel, so I don't know if he is supposed to be so goofy.
Another thing is the music by Carl Davis which I really missed. In the 1995 version every important character had it's own tune which underlined the character and really helped with the flow of the movie(well episodes).
This new version is not wholly bad (hehe). Actually compared to many of the other BBC series like Middlemarch, Wives and daughters it is good. But compared to a masterpiece it fails utterly and completely.
4 stars!