It seems that this is a review I lost with my hard drive crash nearly 2 years ago. Here’s news — you’re not missing anything — nothing in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and nothing with my review. If a film doesn’t register with you, it’s hard to review it — so what would you read from that? ANSWER – me, annoyed.
Anyway, I’m working from memory here, so let’s get started…
Colour Rating — Yellow Puss or Red Blood … whatever …
I haven’t read Pride and Prejudice, I have had no plans to, and after this film I am further not interested. It’s amusing that Seth Grahame-Smith could write a quirky parody mashup (published 2009) combining the 1813 Jane Austen‘s classic novel with elements of modern zombie fiction, but mostly I just found it snooty and boring — I couldn’t get in to it. When they showed the action stuff, it worked for me, but all otherwise it was the whos-in-love-with-whom Jane-Austen-junk my mother warned me about.
Not a gore-fest, this Z-film was a SNORE-fest!
There was clearly a lot of money behind this film, and one good thing I can say about it is that I’m sure it will perturb the Jane Austen purists. Hopefully, it will be at least a little fun that it was re-envisioned. For me though, coming from the zombie-film fan perspective . . . something was lost with this to capture the the zombie-fan demographic.
Conclusion…
If you’re a Pride-Prejudice/Austen fan and you’re open-minded — go for it. If you’re a zombie-fan and you want to make sure you’ve watched EVERY zombie related film, well … good luck. If you’re a die-hard zombie-film fan …. don’t bother.