Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Review
There has never been a more crucial time for female movie fans to support movie releases that starred women in powerful roles. With the deserved uproar about women in film, actresses, directors, and film critics, being underrepresented and underpaid, every time a movie is released that supports our interests, we should engage our power.
That being said, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has come at an interesting moment in Hollywood history. The film starts with women and features swoon-worthy love interests, romance, and much gore. Do you still recall when no one believed girls would go to comic conventions or watch horror movies? Gone are those days, and that’s the very movie to further prove that.
What is the movie all about?
The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Movie is the version of Seth Graham-Smith’s book in which he utilized Jane Austen’s novel. In case you didn’t know yet, it is the most popular classic romance of all time and includes zombies.
That nineteenth-century England is overruled with the undead. The Bennett sisters are not just poised and well-read but also professionals in the deadly arts. The movie is at its best when it embraces the silliness inherent within its premise.
Any movie that continuously alludes to other Pride and Prejudice movie adaptations and has Mr. Darcy, clad in a Regency-era outfit, owns its campiness. Nonetheless, it embodies that presence when it blurs the lines between Jane Austen and zombie hunter.
On top of that, Elizabeth Bennet showing her boot into the face of Darcy during his rude proposal is one of the high points of the movie.
However, it is not until the work leaves from Austen’s plot and the source material of Grahame Smith and works its own resolution of the zombie apocalypse that the characters and plots start to shine.
The movie does suffer from a few pacing problems. For instance, the movie’s first three or so scenes feel disjointed, nearly as if all three must be the audience’s first introduction to the world. Moreover, bits and pieces audiences most recall from the story’s previous adaptation or original book, such as the letter where Darcy describes himself to Elizabeth, are rushed, leaving the romance between the lead feeling the same. That’s especially true, even though the acting makes up for most of the plot’s shortcomings.
So, will this Lily James movie go down as one of the best Jane Austen adaptations ever created? Provided the challenges of literature purists and the technical difficulties of the film, perhaps not. However, if audiences could leave their literary snobbery at the door and allow themselves to fully enjoy the Bennet sisters punch, shoot, and then stab their way to a happy ending, then they are certainly in for a bloody good time.
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