It seems that every generation has its warAND its remake of Pride and Prejudice.

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2010)

Warning: here be spoilers (can you really "spoil" something as well known as Pride and Prejudice?) Unfortunately, this remake the Pride and Prejudice comes after the masterpiece miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E in 1995. Although I attempted to judge this opus on its own merits, I found myself subconsciously comparing every aspect of this remake to the 1995 version (which is inherently unfair, because this was only a movie and the 1995 version was a miniseries).
It is said that 80% of directing is casting (which, I suppose, means that if you have good casting you have good character interplay, and the directing takes care of itself), and the casting for this move was done well. However, the unfair comparison to the 1995 miniseries rears its ugly head: I found myself preferring the A&E/BBC portrayal of the characters of Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Collins (even though this short film version couldn't give the actors who portrayed these enough time to fully exhibit their characters).
One thing I didn't like was the dancing scene where everyone disappeared, leaving only Darcy and Elizabeth: it looked unnatural, since their heads where not bobbing up and down like they would have been if they were really doing these dance movements. A couple of other scenes were, I believe, more influenced by our notion of romance than what Jane Austin had in mind: when Elizabeth rejects Darcy and they almost begin making out, and at the end when Elizabeth comes out to meet Darcy in her nightgown; perhaps the next remake of the film can have them living together instead of getting married (but then what would Lydia and Wickham have to do to scandalize and shame the family?). But seriously, these two scenes would probably not have been realistic for the pre-Victorian English gentry.
Besides these nitpicking details, I thoroughly enjoyed this remake of P&P. It is perhaps the best portrayal of this story in the short time allotted. I give it a 8 out of a 10.