Brit-lit-meets-Bollywood hybrid is a bit of a mishmash, but it's also bright, breezy fun.
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02/10/05
Bride and Prejudice (2005)
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Reviews Counted:129
Fresh:85
Rotten:44
Average Rating:6.1/10
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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Reviews for Bride and Prejudice
I assume director Chadha was hoping to achieve the ultimate East meets West musical comedy, but in almost every way imaginable, she has failed in her mission.
02/10/05
Chadha infuses the story with energy and her film bumps along as noisily as a plane on a rutted runway.
02/10/05
It’s hard not to warm to this brash, slaphappy, Technicolored lummox of a movie as it coasts to a wonderfully daffy conclusion at the Santa Monica Pier.
02/10/05
There'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.
02/10/05
Top CriticChadha proves that Austen's material is timeless, but not tireless.
02/10/05
Top CriticA more-than-pleasant diversion.
02/10/05
Top CriticGurinder Chadha's film, which transports Jane Austen's 1813 novel to 21st-century India, is as high concept and rife with cliche as anything ever churned out by Hollywood.
02/10/05
Bride works because of its heedless, heart-on-its-sleeve spirit.
02/10/05
Top CriticBride & Prejudice may not be necessary. Sometimes it isn't even fun. But it never stops jumping.
02/10/05
Top CriticBride very well may be the first not-so-great film since Viva Las Vegas that I watched with an ear-to-ear grin throughout. It's pure pleasure.
02/10/05
Top CriticIt's not insightful, but it sure is a lot of fun.
02/10/05
An effervescent crowd-pleaser.
02/10/05
Gurinder Chadha transplants the traditional tale of manners to India, infusing the tired story with dance numbers, orange marigolds, and Bollywood star, Aishwarya Rai.
02/10/05
...song-and-dance interludes are colorful and unabashedly unhinged from any notion of realism...
02/09/05
This festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation -- a savory entertainment as irresistibly faux-exotic as a Putumayo CD sampler of world music.
02/09/05
Top CriticChadha's attempt to mix East and West just doesn't work.
02/09/05
Jane Austen would approve.
02/07/05
It just knocks you out visually. The colors are intense, reminiscent of the Glorious three strip Technicolor, circa '35-'55. All singing, all dancing, all fun!
02/07/05
If you’re a fan [of Bollywood movies], by all means, go and see it. If you are not, then be aware.
02/04/05
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February 10, 2005:
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Dylan McDermott will join former Miss World Aishwarya Rai in "The Mistress of Spices," according to Variety. Rai will play the proprietor of a spice shop, with the... More...
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