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Product Name: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [2016]
UPC: 043396474086
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
A Great Mashup Film
A mashup is the combining of two or more unrelated elements.
In this case, the well regarded 1813 Jane Austen romantic novel with the horror of zombies.
Despite this nightmarish world, the characters play it straight, such as some of the fine ladies having formal tea while also sharpening the concealed knives they have to carry outside the safety of their homes.
An action-comedy, this film works surprisingly well, as long as you don't take it too seriously.
The book version added zombies to Jane Austen as exaggerated parody of the archetypal romance novel. The film plays everything with exquisite sobriety. If a plague of the undead had struck Regency England, here's how the Bennets, Mr. Darcy, and Lt. Wickham would have handled it all.
The cast could have starred in an absolutely straight adaptation of Austen, they're all that good. Lady Catherine's a very different, but a quite valid take on her ornery ladyship. Wickham's evil quite transcends the cad Jane intended, but understandably so.
Unlike The Asylum's history pastiches, the fully flavored art direction in this movie does justice to the Regency world Austen and Georgette Heyer fans know. The combats work beautifully, particularly Lizzie and Darcy's more-than-verbal sparring. I would willingly see a sequel, given the cliff-hanging ending.
I went in to this movie with high expectations, but was sadden by the fact that there were only a few good parts. I was intrigued by what could have been but dismayed by what was presented. It ended like a sequel would be coming. I am not so sure that would be a good thing. Stick to the books. My 12 yr old this is her go to movie.
