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Bride & Prejudice
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexual references
Starring
Aishwarya Rai,
Martin Henderson,
Daniel Gillies,
Naveen Andrews,
Namrata Shirodkar,
Indira Varma,
Nadira Babbar,
and
Anupam Kher
From the team behind international smash hit "Bend It Like Beckham," comes a Jane Austen adaptation like never before. "Pride and Prejudice" gets the Bollywood treatment, and the result is a spectacular fusion of East meets West. Austen's classic love story unfolds in a riot of colour and emotion, song and dance that jet-sets from rural India via London to Los Angeles. (Pathe Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Musical
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Paul Mayeda Berges
Gurinder Chadha
Jane Austen (novel Pride and Prejudice)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gurinder Chadha
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 5, 2005
Theatrical: February 11, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |
Also known as "Bride and Prejudice"

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Under the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's "knowingly" off-the-rails--and if you're in a tolerant or adventurous mood, very entertaining.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lightweight but utterly beguiling.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Bright, colorful, and exhilarating.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Good, clean fun, and the view is fabulous.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This plot, recycled from Austen, is the clothesline for a series of dance numbers that, like Hong Kong action sequences, are set in unlikely locations and use props found there; how else to explain the sequence set in, yes, a Mexican restaurant?

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Leah McLaren
It's the small, smelly details that elevate this Indian-fusion retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel from trifle to bona-fide delight.

70
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Aside from the singing and dancing, it is the color and pageantry of India as filtered through the work of cinematographer Santosh Sivan that captivates us.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Works because of its heedless, heart-on-its-sleeve spirit.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
Like an Elvis Presley musical from the '60s, filled with shiny bright colors, bouncy music and happy, smiling, pretty people.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Austen nuts may rend their frocks, and Bollywood buffs may split their cholis, but there's an immensely likable, almost goofily playful charm to Bride & Prejudice that finally wins the day.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Here's yet another take on "Pride and Prejudice,"...but all spiced up as colorfully as a dish of curry.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
It's got practically everything you could stuff in front of a camera, with the possible exception of Rip Taylor throwing confetti. Dancing transvestites? Check. Elephants? Check.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
You could do worse for a date movie than Gurinder Chadha's campy, exuberant cross-cultural take on Austen's much-filmed 1812 novel.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Bride has atmosphere and charm, but the exotic flavors have often been toned down to avoid complaints.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The mere idea of making a musical version of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day India is delicious, though, and Chadha's lively imagination and good intentions almost make the concept work.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A Hollywood take on a Bollywood movie. But the Bollywood portions - echoing over-the-top Indian movie musicals - are far more entertaining than the Hollywood segments.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The film is uniquely spirited, radiating the exuberance and sexual heat of an Elvis musical, a characteristic shared by its songs and dances.

50
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Unfortunately, it's also pretty banal -- translating the songs into English reveals just how dull their lyrics and sentiments really are. The colors are pretty though.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
It is a truth universally acknowledged that had Jane Austen lived to see the profits that have been squeezed from her most marketable premise, she'd doubtless have wept, then lobbied for her share of the royalties.

50
Time
Richard Corliss
Heart and art can make a beguiling pair. Those are mostly missing in this strained hybrid, which is less Bollywood than Follywood.

50
Newsweek
David Ansen
This clumsy attempt to merge Jane Austen's classic with Bollywood musical conventions falls painfully flat.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Money can't buy happiness, but as Bride and Prejudice teaches us, it can get patience in bulk from a smart young woman of a practical mind-set.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The characters quickly succumb to stereotype.

50
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
It’s very colorful, for sure, but the dialogue is lead-footed at best.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Gloriously seductive musical sequences seem suddenly hokey and self-conscious when they're staged in Western settings, and the songs' English-language lyrics are painfully banal.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A painlessly light introduction to Bollywood moviemaking, but it far too often feels like run-of-the-mill Hollywood fare.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Lacks even mild drama.

40
Empire
Anna Smith
It has charm, comedy and a populist concept, but is structurally weak and too self-consciously multicultural.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Chadha doesn't seem at home with either Austen or Bollywood, and her ambitions far exceed her competence in the song-and-dance numbers, which are a clutter of stiff choreography and silly original lyrics.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The comedy of manners becomes strictly a comedy of bad manners.

10
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
As high concept and rife with cliché as anything ever churned out by Hollywood, but with worse production values and a load of sanctimonious political correctness.


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