There is a good film here struggling to emerge, but I would have preferred either an all-Indian Austen adaptation, or a Bollywood musical that tried to incorporate the Hindu diaspora.

| Dec 26, 2017

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Every so often, the unseen managers of the galaxy bestow on us mere mortals a vision of rare incongruous beauty: a solar eclipse, a streaking comet, a shooting star, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai happily riding a tractor.

| Aug 19, 2005

As Monsoon Wedding was to Crouching Tiger, Bride and Prejudice is in a measure to, say, Rumble in the Bronx or Jackie Chan's First Strike.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 24, 2005

The comedy is broad and the acting larger-than-life ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2005

By the time two newlywed couples lumber toward their honeymoons atop bejeweled elephants, the movie's frothy excess and good humor can make you say 'I do,' too.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 25, 2005

Who would have guessed that transposing the Bennet family of Netherfield Park in 1790s Britain to a middle-class home in contemporary Amritsar, India would require so little forcing?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2005

What is silly about Bride is also what makes it special. That and its leading lady, the luminous Aishwarya Rai.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 25, 2005

For those who love this kind of stuff, it's pure popcorn pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 24, 2005

The lyrics for the musical numbers are delightfully clever, the dancing has an energetic, let's-put-on-a-show quality, and the movie is as gorgeous to look at as its cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2005

It's very colorful, for sure, but the dialogue is lead-footed at best.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2005

A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.

| Feb 11, 2005

This feels more like a mixed-up Bollywood sitcom.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Watch it as a movie musical and you may be disappointed; watch it as an experiment in genres and be intrigued; watch it for the birth of an international star and be dazzled.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Bollywood films often match musical spectacle with heightened drama, but Bride & Prejudice lacks even mild drama, and its absence becomes glaring once the music stops.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Though nobody will mistake it for the real thing, Bride & Prejudice is the best attempt at adapting Bollywood style to Western tastes since Moulin Rouge.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

A colorful cavort in songs and saris, Bride & Prejudice has infectious high spirits, though its showmanship upstages plot and characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

It's joyous, and the colorful cacophony of phoniness becomes it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005

Bride & Prejudice is a fun family movie, with eye candy for everyone in the audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2005

A free-spirited adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2005