Director Joe Wright’s new Pride and Prejudice boils Jane Austen’s novel down to romcom period romp. Overcoming my prejudice, I enjoyed the movie–though I would have enjoyed it more if its lovely high-spirited ingenue and her standard-issue tortured, brooding swain hadn’t been called “Miss Elizabeth Bennet” and “Mr. Darcy.”
And would somebody please get poor “Mr. Wickham” out of that Legolas wig and into McDonalds? Feed him some cheeseburgers, I think he’s starving to death…