You Can't Please Everyone

Rating: 8/10 (1 December 2006)

I think that we all should agree that this was a approx. 2hrs. If it had been a true adaptation it would have been a ten hour miniseries. My personal view is that it is a good adaptation of a book I have read. Knightly does not give a perfect performance, but she is extremely young and has a whole lifetime ahead of her. Judi Dench as always steals the movie. Tom Hollander does an amazingly funny job as Mr. Collins, and for some reason a Mr Collins I do not despise. Mathew Macfadyen did a great job, and you could see the change of countenance in his eyes. Overall the cast was a great cast that made it work beautifully.
Yes the movie may have certain moments where you ask "And what of/How/ When?", but what modern day movie does not. Even the great films have had certain questionable scenes. Yes I do understand that certain mores of that time did not permit someone to leave their "underdressed", but it worked for the film. I especially found the last scene to be a bit strange, though funny... where Lizzie states "You can call me Goddess Devign", that may have been a little too much... since this was not the 20th century England.