Bride and Prejudice

This is a modern Indian musical comedy version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If this sounds intriguing, then go ahead and see it. If it sounds scary, then run away.

The first dance and musical number is like an Indian "You Got Served" routine. A bunch of guys do a mix of traditional Indian dancing and hip hop.

The movie is very colorful. It almost looks technicolor with all the bright colors.

The story's just like the Pride and Prejudice storyline. Even the main guy's name, Darcy, is the same. This movie sticks pretty closely to the original script, but it does have its obvious differences.

This is a more humorous light-hearted version of Pride and Prejudice. Since I saw Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice recently, I can compare and contrast pretty easily.

This movie is like an Indian English musical. It's full of song and dance. It's basically a total chick flick. I can't imagine any straight guy wanting to see this. I just watched this because I thought my wife would like it since she likes romance comedies.

The movie is pretty comical, goofy, and cheesey. I thought the corny jokes pretty much saved this movie from being a total disaster.

The traditional whiny high-pitched Indian music was really irritating like laughter from that nerdy Steve Erkel from the old tv show, Family Matters.

And what was up with the cross-dressing Indian singers in one dance number?

All the Indians sounded like Apu from The Simpsons.

The funniest guy in the movie is the sleazy Indian guy, Kholi. At first, the mother tried to set up Lalita up with him. He had a lot of corny lines. At dinner, he says he came back to India from America to find companionship. While he smilingly says, "No life without wife," he sticks up his middle finger that has a ring on it.

What's up with all these songs? Did they try to make an Indian version of Grease?

I thought some of the quirkiest scenes gave it some charm. The movie is worth watching if only to compare it to other versions of Pride and Prejudice.

When the third sister did her cobra dance, she cracked me up. She started doing an Indian belly dance and pretended to "cobra strike" everyone who was watching. After the movie ended, I started doing the cobra dance for Sarah. That was fun.

The movie had good scenery of India, England, and America.

I thought it was funny when the mother was looking up Indianmatchmaking.com to set her daughters up.

The four daughters were always home. Didn't they have schools or jobs in these modern times?

The movie was a good lesson in Indian culture too.

The acting was not very good at all. I thought it was very contrived. Darcy and Lolita acted like they were pretending to hate each other in the beginning. It was obvious that the conversations were unnatural and scripted. The conversations didn't flow very well. They got angry over conversations that clearly wasn't theirs. As they tried to stick as closely to a 200 year old script as possible, it didn't work well, especially in terms of their conversations. Their conversations made it seem like they were fighting, but they didn't act that way at all. The acting was okay once they started acting like they cared for each other.

The Indian women in the movie were very attractive. They were fair and light-skinned. Thankfully, most of the girls were hot and didn't look like their mother.

For some reason, I could understand what they were saying with their Indian accents better than in Pride and Prejudice with their thick British accents. When people talk too fast, I can't understand what they're saying in movies, especially when the sound editing is poorly done.

The movie isn't too bad after you get through the painfully bad first half of the film.

The good: Light-hearted fun, beautiful Indian girls, goofy comedy, very colorful.

The bad: Whiny Indian music, annoying songs, chick flick, abhorrent acting in the first half of the movie.

The verdict: Watch this with your Indian lover tonight.

My rating: C, 71.