Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel.
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I found it to be far too much Bollywood and far too little - except conceptually - of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
Directed by Gurinder Chadha, from a screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges, based on the novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
A cross-cultural adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" set in modern-day Bombay, London and Los Angeles, this is a trite, flimsy, groundless romance of shallow character stereotypes, ethnic hypocrisy, and horrible songs.
All great respect to Ms. Austen and her classic novel, but we’ve seen so many film and television adaptations, not to mention modern twists such as “Bridget Jones’s Diaries” and the web series “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” and the Bollywood gem “Bride & Prejudice,” and the time- travel-themed “Lost in Austen” miniseries, etc., that if we MUST get another variation on the story, the weirder the better.
It helps enormously that Jane Austen’s romantic and comic novels are surprisingly sturdy beasts, regularly prompting great adaptations (Sense & Sensibility), witty updates (Metropolitan, Clueless), ethnic riffs (Bride & Prejudice, From Prada to Nada) and serving as a skeleton for other classics, too (Bridget Jones’s Diary).
1300 B.C. As he prepares to send his armies under the leadership of his son Ramses (Joel Edgerton, "Warrior") and his adopted nephew Moses (Christian Bale) to fight the Hittites, Egyptian Pharaoh Seti (John Turturro) gets a prophesy from his High Priestess (Indira Varma, "Bride & Prejudice," HBO's 'Rome') that a leader will be saved in battle and that savior will himself become a leader.
And oh yeah, Dupree's been brought in by corrupt lawyer Rip Reed (Jason Bateman, TV's "Arrested Development," hands down the most worthwhile thing about this over-orchestrated mess) who also calls in ex-cops 'Pistol' Pete Deeks (Peter Berg, "Collateral") and Hollis Elmore (Martin Henderson, "Bride & Prejudice").