Bright Young Things
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- Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore
- Summary: Based on the classic novel "Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh, this satirical comedy and love story is set in 1930's London.
- Director: Stephen Fry
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, War
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Positive: 19 out of 32
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Mixed: 12 out of 32
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Negative: 1 out of 32
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90Fry establishes himself as an inspired, world-class talent behind the camera and delivers my favorite film of the year thus far.
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80in its best moments, Bright Young Things is as lithe and as wicked as its source material. Depending on how much of a Waugh purist you are, its flaws may trouble you as you're watching it. But afterward, they might not matter so much.
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60Lacks the novel's drier-than-dry bite, but compensates with a strong ensemble cast and a series of glamorous party sequences in which the decor has at least as much depth as the guests.
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30The movie, alas, is shackled somewhat by Waugh's original, pedestrian plot, which is too full of discrete incidents and slow to form an overarching story.
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
