The Jane Austen Book Club
By John • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: 2 Stars, Comedy, DramaFor a romantic comedy this is not too bad. What’s interesting is that the writer/director took Austen’s body of work, and he crafted his story and characters around Austen’s books, making for interesting parallels during the club discussions.
The actors gave good performances, helping with the enjoyment of this movie. All of them are familiar faces, Maria Bello being my favorite. Amy Brennemen and Jimmy Smits were also interesting.
I liked the contrast between Austen and scifi novels. I must admit I am not interested in Jane Austen at all, though I might have enjoyed some of the movies based on her novels. So I totally identified with the Trey character. However I wish they could have gone a little deeper on those sci-fi books, but I understand why they didn’t.
The biggest problem of this movie (and most rom-coms) is the ending. Everything is resolved neatly at the end, to a point where it was totally unrealistic. They didn’t even try to end it in a more believable way. They just took every single character and gave them a happy ending.
I almost like it, but that ending really took it down.
Rating: 2.5 Stars
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