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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:25
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: A colorful and energetic adaptation of Austen's classic.
Theatrical Release:Feb 11, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $6,481,176
Synopsis: From director Gurinder Chadha and the team that created “Bend It Like Beckham” comes a classic romance not just retold, but reinvented in a new globally connected world. BRIDE AND PREJUDICE puts an... [More]
Starring: Martin Henderson, Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Nitin Ganatra
Director: Gurinder Chadha
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Every so often, the unseen managers of the galaxy bestow on us mere mortals a vision of rare incongruous beauty: a solar eclipse, a streaking comet, a shooting star, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai happily riding a tractor.
Top CriticBy the time two newlywed couples lumber toward their honeymoons atop bejeweled elephants, the movie's frothy excess and good humor can make you say 'I do,' too.
Top CriticWho would have guessed that transposing the Bennet family of Netherfield Park in 1790s Britain to a middle-class home in contemporary Amritsar, India would require so little forcing?
Top CriticWhat is silly about Bride is also what makes it special. That and its leading lady, the luminous Aishwarya Rai.
Top CriticFor those who love this kind of stuff, it's pure popcorn pleasure.
Top CriticThe lyrics for the musical numbers are delightfully clever, the dancing has an energetic, let's-put-on-a-show quality, and the movie is as gorgeous to look at as its cast.
Top CriticA big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.
Top CriticThis feels more like a mixed-up Bollywood sitcom.
Top CriticBollywood films often match musical spectacle with heightened drama, but Bride & Prejudice lacks even mild drama, and its absence becomes glaring once the music stops.
Top CriticBride and Prejudice is bright, colorful, and exhilarating, and brings new dimensions to a story that has been told so many times that it's astounding to recognize that someone has found a fresh perspective.
Top CriticThough nobody will mistake it for the real thing, Bride & Prejudice is the best attempt at adapting Bollywood style to Western tastes since Moulin Rouge.
Top CriticA colorful cavort in songs and saris, Bride & Prejudice has infectious high spirits, though its showmanship upstages plot and characters.
Top CriticIt's joyous, and the colorful cacophony of phoniness becomes it.
Top CriticIt's part sitcom, part musical comedy and all extremely silly.
Top CriticBride & Prejudice is a fun family movie, with eye candy for everyone in the audience.
Top CriticA free-spirited adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
Top CriticGurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice is a pretty movie, but it's also a pretty crazy one.
Top CriticIn attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, [Chadha has] also made it bland.
Top CriticThere's a real sense of unbridled spectacle here, which extends to putting a gospel choir on the beach in Santa Monica for the film's L.A. sequences, and it's best to simply let it all wash over you.
Top CriticChadha proves that Austen's material is timeless, but not tireless.
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