Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, you're no Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier!

Rating: 2/10 (31 May 2006)

Do we really need another "Pride and Prejudice"? As others have noted, this one gets it SO wrong on SO many levels! Bad enough Mrs. Bennet has been turned into a pathetic harpy and Mr. Collins has a burr up his ass, no one of Darcy's rank would be caught dead at that hillbilly hoedown!
Knightley is too self-conscious and fails to convey Elizabeth's intelligence, Macfadyen looks positively drugged (somebody get him a comb!), and they speak in the most relentless monotone! Elizabeth should be tweaking Darcy in the scene where he's at his desk, but Knightley delivers these zingers like lead balloons! This was how Elizabeth and Darcy courted, movie people!
Then it just dragged on and on! When Darcy makes his big speech, I couldn't stop laughing! Only Judi Dench (bless her!) got that Austen's opus is as much about the class system as it was about two people who'd rather slit their throats than admit their love! I had no idea why this Elizabeth and Darcy hooked up, and I didn't care! Another PPV $3.99 I'll never get back!