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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumUnder the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversLightweight but utterly beguiling.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterLike an Elvis Presley musical from the '60s, filled with shiny bright colors, bouncy music and happy, smiling, pretty people.
- 70VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyAusten nuts may rend their frocks, and Bollywood buffs may split their cholis, but there's an immensely likable, almost goofily playful charm to Bride & Prejudice that finally wins the day.
- 50NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThis clumsy attempt to merge Jane Austen's classic with Bollywood musical conventions falls painfully flat.
- 50TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissHeart and art can make a beguiling pair. Those are mostly missing in this strained hybrid, which is less Bollywood than Follywood.
- 50Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterMoney can't buy happiness, but as Bride and Prejudice teaches us, it can get patience in bulk from a smart young woman of a practical mind-set.
- 50Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonUnfortunately, it's also pretty banal -- translating the songs into English reveals just how dull their lyrics and sentiments really are. The colors are pretty though.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorIt is a truth universally acknowledged that had Jane Austen lived to see the profits that have been squeezed from her most marketable premise, she'd doubtless have wept, then lobbied for her share of the royalties.
- 30The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasChadha doesn't seem at home with either Austen or Bollywood, and her ambitions far exceed her competence in the song-and-dance numbers, which are a clutter of stiff choreography and silly original lyrics.