Not the best adaptation

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2006)

This is not the worst movie I have ever seen but it is not a good adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. The cinematography is beautiful but the pacing of the story is all wrong. They speed through events and we never really care about any of the characters. When adapting a novel of this length, it is vital to spend time on the more important events of the book and either leave out or gloss over minor incidents. However, this movie tries to include everything with no discrimination about which events are more important to the plot. Therefore, the whole story seems to be rushed. The character of Lydia, portrayed by Jenna Malone, is absolutely intolerable. Completely overacted, and frankly, just obnoxious. Otherwise this isn't a horrible movie. If it had been adapted from a lesser known book it would have been quite tolerable. However, as it is, I cannot strongly recommend it.