Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Full Movie Reviews

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Matthew Brady
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Movie Review

Matthew Brady - wrote on 02/14/2016

Pride and Prejudice...or and there's Zombies in it as well.

The story is about a zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is just as ridiculous as it sounds. Just the thought of taking a classic novel and adding whatever monsters you can put in. It's been done before in movies, TV shows and novels. Now we've got this movie and you would expect a film like this to be a fun, gory and just a good time, but sadly that's not the case here, because Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn't that good or fun.

The problem that I had with this movie is that I had no fun at all watching it and the film takes itself way too seriously. …

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Uneven Cheeky Retelling

Unknown - wrote on 02/07/2016

'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' is another adaptation from the writer of 'Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'. Thankfully, this time he didn't adapt his own work. This is in the same vein of entertainment as 'Abe Lincoln', only done slightly better. Here we have an actual attempt to combine the serious and farcical elements, while staying true to the original 'Pride and Prejudice' story. The balance works some of the time. The zombies act as a background danger to provide plot propulsion, never overriding the personal drama. Story progression is stable until after the halfway point where things tilt in total favor of the Jane Austen sensibilities. It's a shift that deflates the mood and sucks out what little fun the movie was having with itself up to that point. The humor vanishes …

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