Bride and Prejudice Critic Reviews

Under the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.Read the full review

This plot, recycled from Austen, is the clothesline for a series of dance numbers that, like Hong Kong action sequences, are set in unlikely locations and use props found there; how else to explain the sequence set in, yes, a Mexican restaurant?Read the full review

Lightweight but utterly beguiling.Read the full review

Bright, colorful, and exhilarating.Read the full review

Austen nuts may rend their frocks, and Bollywood buffs may split their cholis, but there's an immensely likable, almost goofily playful charm to Bride & Prejudice that finally wins the day.Read the full review

Like an Elvis Presley musical from the '60s, filled with shiny bright colors, bouncy music and happy, smiling, pretty people.Read the full review

A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.Read the full review

Aside from the singing and dancing, it is the color and pageantry of India as filtered through the work of cinematographer Santosh Sivan that captivates us.Read the full review

Works because of its heedless, heart-on-its-sleeve spirit.Read the full review