Greatness in 2.5 hours!

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2005)

OK, I've seen and read just about everything there is done from or by Jane Austen and I just have to say that this movie makes me ...happy. I know that it doesn't quite compare with the 1995 - Colin Firth - version, but for a 2.5 hour version it comes close. I was really weary of any remake of something that didn't really need fixing, but never-the-less, this version still had me rooting for it at the end. The music and scenery in this movie come together to give it the right "feel" of the romantic story and that is saying something because I am rarely ever happy with the music of a movie. Even if you go into this movie expecting not to like it you will come out of it with at least a respect for it if not a love for it.