Not my favorite version...

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2013)

I prefer the 1996 version, especially as I found Jennifer Ehle a perfect Lizzy.
Also this version was a little too Hollywood for me and a few historical details do not ring true to me. For one, I do not believe Lizzy would ever have run around with her hair down, since she was twenty or twenty-one. It was pretty standard for the hair to go up once they were "out". Also the dress worn by Carolyn Bimgham at the first ball seems wrong. I cannot find a single gown from the period that was completely sleeveless in that way. Even if she were meant to more fashionable than the Bennett girls, that did not seem accurate.
It is also difficult to believe that Keira Knightley would be anyone's idea of second place in looks. Although she tend to thrust out her chin in an odd way, in all of her roles.
Darcy's hair always looks unwashed, lol.
It is also surprising that Carrie Mulligan became such a star off of her role as Kitty. Her next role was a starring one in Bleak House, in which she was wonderful and lovely, but I hardly saw anything from her role in P&P that would lead me to believe she would be given such a chance.
Also, being a feature film, it skimmed over the story instead of letting it unfold as the mini series in the nineties did. Everything seemed to happen as a breakneck pace.
This was the only version where the part of Jane was played by an actress who could be believably as beautiful as Jane was meant to be.
Obviously the film is beautifully done with an expensive cast and sets and locations.