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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies manages to wring a few fun moments out of its premise, but never delivers the thoroughly kooky mashup its title suggests.
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The movie strives to be both scary and funny but winds up being neither. Feb 29, 2016 | Full Review…
The movie strives to be both scary and funny but winds up being neither.
Andrea Gronvall
It's entertaining at first that our heroine and hero can slay zombies as expertly as they parry quips but the joke wears thin. Feb 14, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's entertaining at first that our heroine and hero can slay zombies as expertly as they parry quips but the joke wears thin.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies does exactly what it says on the tin, rather entertainingly too, especially if you have seen one too many tasteful television adaptations of Austen's work. Feb 12, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies does exactly what it says on the tin, rather entertainingly too, especially if you have seen one too many tasteful television adaptations of Austen's work.
Kate Muir
This seems like it's just laughing at Austen. It feels like anti-fan-fiction. Feb 11, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This seems like it's just laughing at Austen. It feels like anti-fan-fiction.
Peter Bradshaw
The bottom line is that Burr Steers' adaptation is unlikely to please any audience regardless of what they're looking for. Feb 6, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The bottom line is that Burr Steers' adaptation is unlikely to please any audience regardless of what they're looking for.
James Berardinelli
This is a perfect film for our mash-up/viral culture in which short, clever, easily digestible bits of entertainment are passed along giddily from friend to friend. But most shareable YouTube videos run a couple minutes. "Zombies" is much, much longer. Feb 5, 2016 | Full Review…
This is a perfect film for our mash-up/viral culture in which short, clever, easily digestible bits of entertainment are passed along giddily from friend to friend. But most shareable YouTube videos run a couple minutes. "Zombies" is much, much longer.
Tim Grierson
The romance is heartless, the plot is brainless, and the action is gutless - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies survives purely on its spine. Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The romance is heartless, the plot is brainless, and the action is gutless - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies survives purely on its spine.
Bertie Archer
It's silly but also creative and doesn't take itself too seriously. Apr 15, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It's silly but also creative and doesn't take itself too seriously.
Rachel Wagner
An excruciatingly long and tepid 107 minutes, a hollow pastiche of both the costume drama and the zombie movie. Apr 8, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
An excruciatingly long and tepid 107 minutes, a hollow pastiche of both the costume drama and the zombie movie.
Allie Gemmill
The inclusion of zombies doesn't make it a kick-ass tale of love and is ultimately a disappointing new take on Jane Austen's novel. Apr 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The inclusion of zombies doesn't make it a kick-ass tale of love and is ultimately a disappointing new take on Jane Austen's novel.
Mae Abdulbaki
It's silly and over the top, for sure, but I really, really liked it. Also, even if you've read the book there will still be some surprises! Mar 2, 2019 | Full Review…
It's silly and over the top, for sure, but I really, really liked it. Also, even if you've read the book there will still be some surprises!
Amie Simon
There's a balance to be struck between respecting the integrity of Pride and Prejudice while having fun with the wacky experiment of throwing zombies into the mix, and Steers' attempt is decidedly wobbly. Feb 22, 2019 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…
There's a balance to be struck between respecting the integrity of Pride and Prejudice while having fun with the wacky experiment of throwing zombies into the mix, and Steers' attempt is decidedly wobbly.
Bernard Boo
Better than it had any right being, but still not very good.
Super Reviewer
It takes itself seriously as an Austen adaptation... but as a zombie movie less so. "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" may sound like a tonal nightmare (at times; it's close), but a charismatic/ game cast sell it for more than it should be worth. It's actually pretty fun.
Pride, Prejudice ... and Poor Directing. The story is fresh and enticing, but the direction is inexpert in this would-be period flick. The actors are hamstrung by inept direction, middling costumes and a clear unfamiliarity with period ambiance. From the plainly 20th century brickwork of structures in multiple scenes (is this a hipster coffee shop?), to the inexplicable Japanese handle wrap on swords used by 19th century Englishmen, to the bizarrely anachronistic London setting, "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" is a confused mess. I both wish it were better, and wish it were worse. As it stands, the film is not satisfying from any perspective.
It's a kooky mashup that falls just short of it's preliminary promise. Nonetheless serviceable, and the only time indeed that I gave one whit about this famous story despite its being truly reflective about the entrenched and stifling Brit attitudes about class. Zombies. Get it? Oh well.
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