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Austenland

2013

Jerusha Hess

Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge ...

4.9

1,227

Comedy. Romance Thirtysomething, single Jane is obsessed with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice. On a trip to an English resort, her fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman become more real than she ever imagined.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Like Shannon Hale's cleverly conceived chick-lit novel, in which a diehard Janeite dreams of Regency Era courtship at an English literary theme park, this genial adaptation by 'Napoleon Dynamite' co-writer Jerusha Hess lightly amuses"	POS
United Kingdom	Damon Wise The Guardian	"It is smart and surprisingly literate, its only downfall being in that (...) its screenplay could have used a little more of Jane Austen's immaculate sense of storytelling (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Hess gets her romance just grounded enough to handle the comic extremes supplied by the supporting cast"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Hess has made a classic rookie mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it's spoofing, and this one's twice as dumb."	NEG
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Unfortunately, this scattershot comedy only occasionally hits the mark."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Austenland is so sluggish and plodding that I started imaging a cross-over with another fantasy-resort movie, wherein the Yul Brynner gunslinger robot from Westworld would show up and lay waste to all of these dullards."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Austenland is kind of a one-joke movie, and the film's rhythm is a bit flaccid, but the joke, at least, has a twinge of wit"	NEU

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