it's not that it's so bad

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2008)

It's just that it's been done so much better already . The 1995 BBC production for T.V. is far superior to this, rendering the 2005 movie version, nearly unwatchable. Jane Austen novels are gems in and of themselves but too many times, we see modern day feminists trying to wrangle in their views into a story line or setting where it was never meant to be. This not only makes the final outcome untrue to the novel but a sacrilege to Jane Austen fans. In real Jane Austen story lines there are men who are good, and men who are not, there are women who are good and women who are not. There is no one side is better than the other garbage. Jane Austen was not a feminists, she was a humanist. She saw good in both sexes. The men in this movie are either twittering idiots, indolent, charlatans or conceited. Case in point, Bingley is described in the book as easy going, friendly and socially proficient but in this movie he is a numbskull and couldn't hold a conversation if his life depended on it. Also, they didn't live side by side with filthy animals roaming about in their house. The Bennet girls also took great care in their appearance which wasn't evident at all in this movie. I just don't understand why so much was changed. It was a disappointment.