Embarrassingly bad

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2005)

I think the Cliffs Notes for 'P&P' might have more of the nuance of the novel than this rubbish - and I'm not entirely convinced anyone in the production team even looked at those. This version is just bizarre - no sense of time period, how people really lived, how people behaved - why make a period film if you're not interested in the period? Good grief, there were costumes from 50 years prior to the time, and then one from the 1990s. And pigtails like Dorothy's. But that's besides the point - to paraphrase from the book, it's the total want of thematic honesty so uniformly betrayed by everyone involved in this production that absolutely sinks it. Unromantic, unfunny and completely uninteresting - if you want the pleasure of this story, curl up and read the book again.