Title: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2016)
Rating: PG-13
My Rating: ….Ambigious.
You see,this movie is both bad, and good. Its got some great chemistry between actors, and some of the alterations of characters due to the circumstances are really interesting. It also has the occasionally good line. I adore Matt Smith’s Collins, and Lena Hedly’s Lady Catherine makes you less likely to dispise the woman. Charles Dance plays Mr. Bennet. I knew Lily James as Ella, from the Live-Action Cinderella but didn’t realise she was Elizabeth untill I read the credits. It also has some faces I’m unfamilar with like Sam Rielly and the rest of the cast I haven’t already mentioned. I will say while his Darcy isn’t what I usually picture Darcy being, it fits within the scope of this film and he and Lily James work well off of one another. It also gives some of the characters usually passed over in the original novel (Namely Mary Bennet) a chance to be shown a little more.
On the other hand some of the dialogue is very very cheesey and at times awkward (Example: When Darcy, watching Elizabeth kick Zombie ass, realises that she’s not that bad looking after all, and starts explaining this to Bingley whose basically “Dude, Zombies.”). It also brings the hard question – If women are being trained for battle, why is it so off set with the sexism of the day? Shouldn’t it have changed some of it? Some of the interjection of the original material by Austen is a bit awkward.
So its hard to grade this movie. I will say I enjoyed it, and I’ll probably purchase it eventually. It really doesn’t make me want to read the novel (The one the film was based on, not the original P&P, which I have read).However, its the type of Zombie movie I enjoy. The kind where there is a mix of genre (Action & Adventure, but also comedy and a touch of romance) and there are some surprising twists.
Sokorra Lewis 