Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
alpg49
If you like the musical "Grease", and I don't, and if you think 19th century British upper crust culture was exciting and vibrant, and I don't, then you might like this movie. This is a view of young people, totally devoid of responsibility, trying to decide who to take to the prom. Wait! ... not the prom, the altar. We constantly see evidence of actual work: the meals are elegantly set, various outdoor venues for embroidery or archery are set, but we only see one servant in the entire movie. He stands perfectly still, out of focus in the background, and has no lines. When the "lower classes" actually move around, they immediately attack 2 defenseless ladies. I'm giving it 3 stars for sets and costumes. The actors mostly hit their marks and remember their lines. There is no passion whatsoever in anything they do. I say, lock them all in their elegantly appointed staterooms in the Titanic.
nicole_llanos
It's a wonderful adaptation, no doubt about it... but how awful Emma is... i don't know if it is the actress or just the character... i wanted to punch her in the face since minute one. I finished the movie even thou i rolled my eyes every 30 seconds or every time this stupid girl came in the screen... which was always. I loved clueless and even thou they made that "emma" very stupid she was lovely. Gwyneth or whatever her name is on the other hand just come as a stupid brat i hated her and hated the movie because of her. i just gave it a 5 for the effort of the cast, director and everyone involved in this movie and because i love Jane Austen.I know she always uses irony in her work, but how much of a full is this leading lady, she created all the problems and lack of solution. If she would be a real person she would have been this awful noise girl nobody likes except for boys who only wants to get into her pants. again... clueless they made it enjoyble but this lady has the charisma of a dead mouse
SnoopyStyle
Based on the Jane Austen novel, Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) keeps trying to be a matchmaker. Only she is usually wrong in their lives and in her own life.It is possibly one of the funnier Jane Austen movie unless if you include Clueless. This is all about Gwyneth Paltrow. She perfectly embodies the naivety and superiority of her character's attitude. Don't expect some by the book adaptation. They've played up the comedy broadly. The visual style from director Douglas McGrath is rather weak. But Paltrow enlightens the whole movie with an engaging performance. Toni Collette plays the poor Harriet Smith. And Alan Cumming has a hilarious scene in the back of the carriage as Mr. Elton.
mullahraheil
I am a fan of classic novels, and authors like Jane Austen and Bronte sisters hold a special place in my library. Jane Austen's novels have always been quite appeasing, but unfortunately the movie doesn't seem to do justice to the novel. After watching Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Shakespeare in Love, I did expect the movie to be great. But turns out the other movie by the same name did much more justice to the novel than this one.Though the movie does follow the novel most of the time (I can recall only two scenes that don't exist in the novel), but the way things represent themselves in the novel, the movie hasn't been able to bring the characters to life. Except for the title character on whom the movie (or the novel) is based, the remaining characters have been badly undermined, thus lacking the humor of the novel.Watching movies is my passion as are the books and I often watch movies again, but this one won't be one the list for second watching. Thanks.
