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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critic Consensus: 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.
All Critics (178) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (79) | Rotten (99)
The movie strives to be both scary and funny but winds up being neither.
This seems like it's just laughing at Austen. It feels like anti-fan-fiction.
The bottom line is that Burr Steers' adaptation is unlikely to please any audience regardless of what they're looking for.
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.
An unexpected and off-kilter treat, thanks to a BBC-quality cast and (un)deadpan humor.
Maybe someone else can crack the code to the ultimate Austen mash-up when the inevitable "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" adaption comes along.
The many plot strands the script tries to weave together get so horrifically tangled they choke the humor out of any given situation.
It is sure to be dismissed by some as a high-concept gimmick, but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies manages to deliver on its quirkiness.
It's a premise that begs for over-the-top antics as Austen's world meets the undead. But it's done well.
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies is a serviceable spectacle--[a] slightly insane spin on the austere exuberance of Austen's classic romancer... a Victorian-cultured social class romance yarn with an undead creepfest [twist]...
The healthy amounts of action, mystery, and humor that were infused into the story created a really fun film that could appeal to a variety of viewers.
If the idea of aristocrats bickering about inheritances whilst shooting zombies in the face sounds cool to you, then there's certainly enough to enjoy here.
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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