I am exactly a fan of the romantic movie genre, often citing its lack of explosions as a reason. More accurately stated, the romantic comedy and drama in general lack an element that allows me to overlook faults in plot or character exposition, or overall execution. This is because I am unwilling to let myself become emotionally involved with people whose existence has clearly been disproven by shoddy filmmaking. I harbor no such objections against unrealistic explosive devices, and I blame my genes for said unfounded bias.
Having said that, I did enjoy this newest version of Austen’s book a lot. Both for the believable historic background of lower class struggle and upper class overfed ennui, and for the entirely likable main characters, whose eventual pairing up I did look forward to. Donald Sutherland as the father was an added bonus that made it possible to ignore the somewhat annoying rest of the family. I found it interesting that the actors all agreed on the likability of the characters, when half the family were self-absorbed, hysterical and irresponsible, but given that I can see historic reasons for why this would have been so, it’s interesting more than really bothersome.
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