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Bride & Prejudice

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Musical | Romance
Written by:
Paul Mayeda Berges
Gurinder Chadha
Jane Austen (novel Pride and Prejudice)
Directed by: Gurinder Chadha
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 11, 2005
DVD: July 5, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / UK
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's "knowingly" off-the-rails--and if you're in a tolerant or adventurous mood, very entertaining.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Teresa Wiltz
A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Works because of its heedless, heart-on-its-sleeve spirit.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Bride has atmosphere and charm, but the exotic flavors have often been toned down to avoid complaints.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
This clumsy attempt to merge Jane Austen's classic with Bollywood musical conventions falls painfully flat.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
It’s very colorful, for sure, but the dialogue is lead-footed at best.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
A painlessly light introduction to Bollywood moviemaking, but it far too often feels like run-of-the-mill Hollywood fare.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.
Read Full Review >Empire Anna Smith
It has charm, comedy and a populist concept, but is structurally weak and too self-consciously multicultural.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The comedy of manners becomes strictly a comedy of bad manners.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 58 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Liz P. gave it a9:
Very fun. Wonderfully colorful, catchy songs and goofy dancing, some hysterically funny bits, a great way to bring P&P to today and have it still make sense. Ok, it's a bit clumsy sometimes, but so what? Have a sense of humor.
satya s. gave it a10:
Light, entertaining fare. Aish makes her english language film debut with beauty & grace.
Julia B.l gave it an8:
very sweet and endearing. for the most part, the musical numbers had a delightful spontaneity.
Rick B. gave it a1:
Yet another movie where asians(in this case INDIANS) are trying to be accepted by, lets see how should i say this, Caucasian. Lets face,when you look at a movie like this, that's what it comes down to. Alot of Chinese, Korean and Indian movies have this...You want an in your face real look at race and lack of a better word "issues", take a look at a little movie called CRASH(one of the best movies ever made). I don't know watching Indian movies is just getting more and more embarrassing to watch.-First, Aishwarya Rai was huge and not in a good way. Yes her looks are amazing, but makeup is even more amazing. They really need to pay makeup artist more money. Martin Henderson could not have been more boring, I mean come ooon did they really have to put such a white guy, they could have picked a normal looking white guy who could act, and suited the part, instead we get a guy that could run for president. The music was annoying compared to other indian movies, and the pace was slow and drawn out. Nothing important and nothing that really interesting, just the same old Sh!t hollywood and now BOLLYWOOD keeps farting out. Alot of white folks i came in contact with really like this movie, I mean who wouldn't like a movie where someone is giving up there culture for you. You know how that feels, wow, i wish they would make a movie of a Chinese girl falling in love and giving up everything for an Indian guy. I would give that movie a 10. But the movie has a good moral point to it thats why i gave it a 1, which is if we all try hard enough you too can end up with a white guy. Please look for my other reviews, a good one is Princess Mononoke. Oh right yea i am asian so please don't get angry(like if i care).
Jaspreet S. gave it a3:
Horrible movie to say the least. The acting is so over the top, and all the musical numbers are forced in there. Pure waste of Aishwriya and Naveen Andrews.
s fatehifar gave it a10:
Really liked it :)
kay m. gave it an8:
Great fun!
