The movie does not do justice to the novel

Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2008)

I think the only thing I found delightful in this film is the music, it more or less captures the youthfulness, cheerfulness of Elizabeth.
On other terms the book has been totally ignored. Many claim that you can do only this much in 2 hours, but I firmly believe that many mistakes could have been avoided altogether. The costumes, hairdos, even interior designs were not true to the era. Bennet's house looks more like a stable, with interior walls actually look dirty! Were they trying to make Bennets look totally poor compared to Darcy's grandeur? I think it was overdone in this case.
I was mostly appalled with the boring dialogues, lack of politeness in the dialogues and unforgivable use of cussing words! When Bingley walks in to propose to Jane he just demands everyone to leave the room so he can talk to Jane. No man with any dignity or respect to the family would ever say those words or in such a harsh tone! No matter what century he is from! And then he actually calls himself an "ass"???!!!! while talking to Jane. There is no such language anywhere near any of Austen's novels! And use of such a language is unpardonable and truly dishonors Austen and her works.
It's worthless to take sides on who plays who better and in what version but pointing out obvious mistakes has to be done so maybe those who find this movie a great adaptation of the novel may actually realize that it greatly misinterprets the novel, its beautiful dialogues and is not a very accurate representation of that period. I think I wouldn't mind the movie this much if not for the obvious mistakes in historical sense and a horrible script.