Bride and Prejudice Critic Reviews

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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews
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Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

In attempting to show us a love blind to class, culture, and color, she's (Chadha) also made it bland.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

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

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Bright, colorful, and exhilarating.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Lightweight but utterly beguiling.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Carla MeyerAdd Critic to Favorites

Lacks even mild drama.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Ray BennettAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites

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

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