Bride and Prejudice Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.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
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
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
Bright, colorful, and exhilarating.Read the full review
Lightweight but utterly beguiling.Read the full review
Lacks even mild drama.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
As high concept and rife with cliché as anything ever churned out by Hollywood, but with worse production values and a load of sanctimonious political correctness.Read the full review
Chadha doesn't seem at home with either Austen or Bollywood, and her ambitions far exceed her competence in the song-and-dance numbers, which are a clutter of stiff choreography and silly original lyrics.Read the full review