kleigh-06761 This movie is even funnier than the book! My favorite quote from the movie is "Jane Austen got it all wrong." So many of the characters have been very tweaked to be the polar opposite of their literary characters, which is a wonderful surprise and very funny.

idunnyr I was looking forward to a fresh take on Pride and Prejudice. She how someone from our time would feel in between the characters we know and love. I cannot begin to express the very depths of my disappointment. They destroy Elizabeth Bennet in the first 5 minutes of the first episode. The woman on screen could look like her and bare her name but her character has nothing in common with Jane Austen's figment of mind. They then rampage through the story destroying every character after another. Some changes more forgivable than others but I did not feel that a person had wondered into Jane Austen's story and thus it was an insult to use the name.*Spoiler alert*The romance between Mr. Darcy and Amanda Price is so horribly badly written it's an insult to all love stories. The worst thing is that they think they are recreating some Elizabeth Bennet <-> Fitzwilliam Darcy romance. But they misunderstand the nature of that love gruesomely and dare suggest that love can solely base on hate and disgust.*Spoilers finished*The only reason they get 2 stars is that the actors do a fair job, casting and production was adequate and the story is reasonably well said even though the writing insults everything and everyone loyal to Jane Austen!

Janell Kemp well I loved this adaptation! guy Andrews has resurrected Jane Austen's romantic desire to have the leading lady end up with the most desirous of men once again. don't we all want to marry our Mr Darcy, whomever, wherever he maybe; Amanda Price did in true Austen form. It did mess with my head, but after watching it again I was most pleased to have another Austen story in the 21st century. it is also very funny towards the end. I would have loved to see a bit more of Lizzie in modern day London and Darcy discovering what had become of his world. The twists in story lines were subtle yet well done. Who would have thought Wickham would have become an honorable man? That Carolyn did not really like men! Loved, loved, loved the pond scene! I don't see this version of Austen as spoof material but another chance to celebrate romance within an English culture. But please Mr Andrews you must never do this to my beloved Persuasion.

johnwissinger It bothers me that someone thought they could improve on this story, and what came out was "Lost in Austen". I probably wouldn't be too upset if Darcy ended up with someone other than Elizabeth Bennett, as long as that woman were someone we liked just as much.The protagonist in this, Amanda Price, is pretty awful. She leaves a perfectly nice boyfriend back home to go running after Darcy, and then spends like 2 hours trying to pretend she DOESN'T like Darcy, but not before she makes out with Bingley, gets engaged to Collins, and pretty much ruins Jane and Charlotte's lives.OK, so she likes to get drunk, and maybe she's a little slutty. This would be fine if she directed it at Wickham, who actually likes sluts, but instead she refuses Wickham, messes around in everybody else's business and does more harm than good. You find yourself siding with the "villains" (Mrs. Bennett, Caroline Bingley, Lady Catherine) because it's completely reasonable that they should want Miss Price out of their lives and away from their men.Finally, she's able to almost (ALMOST) put things right and convince Lady Catherine to annul Jane's marriage to Mr. Collins. This is dependent on Amanda leaving their world forever. But, in the end, even though her modern boyfriend still seems pretty nice and even seems willing to forgive the fact that Amanda's been running around kissing other dudes and getting engaged to everything that breathes, Amanda decides to stay in the book world so she can marry Darcy (destroying his reputation and maybe his inheritance) and we're left wondering what that means for poor Jane. There's no way of knowing whether poor Charlotte is happy in Africa, or whether she'll return, but there's no reason she should, since in this version, Elizabeth Bennett totally abandons her friends and family in favor of jeans and cellphones.Then there's the silly way that characters just accept what's happening. Amanda shows a little disbelief, but apparently, no one else questions that Elizabeth Bennett, the FICTIONAL CHARACTER, has stepped out of some girl's shower and is walking around in the flesh. Amanda's boyfriend, and a girl named (of all things) Piranha, seem to go about the business of integrating Miss Bennett into 21st century life without batting an eye.On the other side, the way Amanda covers up being from the future is nothing short of ridiculous (supposed to funny?) and later in the show, Wickham randomly helps her hide her lies about where she's from, and they make up some stories about rich acquaintances in France. Everybody just kind of goes along with whatever bogus explanations Amanda provide, even though you'd think she would immediately get kicked out. It's like if you tried to sneak into the White House by saying you had a dozen roses for the First Lady, and they just waved you on in. I do understand that, in a show about people getting sucked into fictional worlds, we can't really complain about things being hard to believe, but it grinds my gears.All in all, a waste of three to four hours.