I´ve watched it tonight in tv and found it very funny.
"Hooters, hooters, yum yum yum,
Hooters, hooters, on a girl that´s dumb!"
The Bundy credo
doesnt do the novel true justice
huge miscastings as well
Reese...Colin...Judi...
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I didn't think it was good, so I gave it a low rating. Many agreed.
shareCast is superb, script is magnificent, setting is splendid... music was unnecessary.
TOO MANY LIBERTIES TAKEN!
In an effort to create a new version, they've made this uncomfortably updated version. Frances O'Connor is a very attractive young lady but her incessant panting whenever she's around Colin Firth is at first inappropriate and later irritating. The tattoo was idiotic. In the exchange between Gwendolyn and Cecily when they both believe they're in love with the same man, it's over the top and obvious, and the lovely scenery is actually more distracting than enhancing. (The exquisite restraint displayed in the Michael Redgrave version has me in stitches every time.) But isn't that exquisite restraint, occasionally strained at the leash during times of high stress, the very foundation of the high humor one experiences when one watches it?
Another film that despite its assets in the casting and the script, simply cannot surpass the original filmed version. Go back to the 1952 version and I promise you won't be disappointed.
Samantha
"I didn't say that. The camera must have misheard me!"
Exactly - too many liberties. In attempting to "open" up the play for the remake, somehow most of the comedy has been destroyed. That part about Lady B being a dancer was awful, as was the tattoo.
The original film version, much more faithful to the play, is more entertaining. I have a copy of the play on the sofa next to me and it makes me laugh far more than this film did. Costumes were quite attractive though.