I never would have thought when the year started, that a movie based on a book that is a zombie parody of a classic novel (that has also been made into numerous movies), would actually be pretty entertaining, but Pride & Prejudice & Zombies proved me wrong.
The simple way to summarize Pride & Prejudice & Zombies would be to say take the story of Pride & Prejudice and just throw some zombies in every now and then. The fun part about the story though is that it's not just some zombie epidemic that has suddenly struck England and no one knows what to do. The zombie apocalypse has actually been going on for a while now and the characters are actually trained to fight and protect themselves. It was enjoyable to watch the main character, Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James), take pride in her zombie training skills and not care about finding a husband.
I am not extremely familiar with the story of Pride & Prejudice. I've only seen the Keira Knightley movie a couple of times, so I can't say how true Pride & Prejudice & Zombies stays to the themes of the original. I do wish, though, that there was a little less Pride & Prejudice romance and a little more zombie action. Also I felt that Lena Headey was pretty much wasted in this movie. Her character is set up to be this awesome zombie killing legend, but she never shows her skills on screen.
I don't really know what to say about Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I feel like it did what it was made to do, just be a silly zombie movie parody of a classic romance novel. It's not going to win any major critical awards and won't go down in the history books. I was entertained for 90 minutes and sometimes that's all that matters.
3 Stars
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I still need to finish the book, but I started reading a chapter of Pride and Prejudice followed by a chapter of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I have to say the author did a great job following the story while adding the zombie element. It was very entertaining. I'll have to check this movie out. Thanks for the review!
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