Okay . . . Okay . . . Wait . . . No Way.

Rating: 2/10 (8 November 2006)

I really, really, wanted to like this movie. I was able to tolerate on the whole. I even barely tolerated the modernized lines, even though it was quite jarring when they threw in actual Austen dialog, because then it did not fit with the language used in the movie on the whole.
What really got me, I'm a stickler for authenticity was . . . .
WHAT THE HECK WAS BINGLEY DOING WALKING INTO JANE'S SICKROOM?
AND
DARCY WALKING INTO ELIZABETH'S ROOM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. SHE IS IN HER NIGHTDRESS AND DOES NOT BAT AN EYE, and this is when she is still mad at him for ruining her sister's chances with Bingley.
That's what really got me. That just ruined it pretty much for me. The movie was waaay too modern. Also the whole "You've bewitched me body and soul" I laughed at that in the trailer, I laughed at it while watching the actual movie. What the heck was Darcy doing just wandering around Longbourn's grounds? Darcy was a pushover in this film. Not at all like what I perceived in the novel. You really cannot do the book or the characters justice in the span of two hours. It can be done. Other Austen novels have been adopted very well by other filmmakers. "Sense and Sensibility" is one of the best, "Emma" and "Persuasion."
The movie felt rushed. The only scene I liked was Charlotte Lucas's argument with Lizzie when she said "don't you judge me." That was well done.
I did like this Mr. Bingley better. He was so cute! and Mr. Collins was good, he looked as I imagined him in the book albeit a little thinner. But, I was delighted by the first shot of him at the door. I laughed out loud with delight.
But, on the whole, I cringed throughout most of the film.