Yes, you read the title right. There is the word "Zombies" behind "Pride and Prejudice". At first I thought that it is genuinely adapted from the novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin with zombies the additional item movie maker made up, but apparently it is adapted from a parody novel of the same name.
Anyway, let's just go through the story a bit.
The film starts with the visit of Colonel Darcy (played by Sam Riley) to the home of a family and see if the rumor is true about possible zombie (undead) infection. He has a specific method in finding out if there was a real zombie and as you can probably guessed it, there indeed was and he has to kill it.
After the opening credit scenes, the story goes to the Bennet family where they have 5 daughters who are not married yet and having the special abilities & capabilities of martial arts for zombie killing purpose learned from China.
The mother of Bennet family, wants her children to get married as soon as possible to avoid having their house & inheritance go to some other person/family. When she heard the wealthy Bingley family whose son is very handsome has moved to their neighborhood and having a dance (ball) , she immediately arrange for them to go. During this dance, Mr. Bingley (played by Douglas Booth) is attracted to Jane Bennet (1st daughter, played by Bella Heathcote). Meanwhile Darcy who came together with Mr Bingley is shown to be a very proud person and seem interested a bit with Lizzy Bennet (2nd daughter, played by Lily James). But she overheard Darcy spoke the other way around and she became upset and went out of the ball where the zombie from family in opening scene came back and shot by Darcy. We finally see the 5 daughters in action to fight the zombies.
When Jane was invited to go to Bingley family and had to fight zombie along the way, she caught flu due to the pouring rain and has to stay in Bingley house for a while where Lizzy accompanies her. During this stay, Lizzy seem to be growing even hate to Darcy. When the Bennet family came to visit, Lizzy immediately brings Jane along to go home.
In the 2nd ball that was held by Bingley family, Lizzy met with a soldier, Mr. Wickham (played by Jack Huston) who is quite charming and Darcy seem to detest but Lizzy seem to be interested. There were also some zombies killing action during this ball.
Jane's relationship with Mr. Bingley was halted abruptly with the moving of Bingley family from the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wickham also want to propose that zombies who are "civilized" as they do not eat human brains can live together with human, so the war between human and zombies can stop. This idea is brought upon Darcy's aunt Lady Catherine (played by Lena Headey - Game of Thrones, Terminator series) but was rejected by Lady Catherine and Darcy.
Ultimately, zombies growth is too fast and they start to attack London which is the safe haven under a very coordinated attack to occupy the rest of England. There seem to be no other way to save the humans from being harmed by undead, unless the only bridge that separates the land inhabited by undead and the humans are destroyed. But it became complicated when Lizzy is across the bridge fighting off the undead for a special mission.
Can the zombies be defeated? Can Lizzy be saved and returned before the bridge is destroyed? Can Jane and Mr. Bingley's relationship continue? Will Lizzy choose Darcy or Mr. Wickham? You can find out everything when you watch the whole movie.
In this movie, there are some other notable characters such as Mr. Collins (cousin of Bennet daughters who will own their estate once he is married to one of the daughter) and interested in Lizzy. Also the Bennet father who is witty and very loving to his daughters.
I had so-so movie moments watching this film. The zombie killing scenes are not spectacular for such genre. The relationship between Jane and Mr. bingley is sweet but not giving the "oooooooh" feeling. While Lizzy, Darcy and Mr. Wickham relationship is so-so. The only one particular scene that was quite memorable to me was when Darcy and Lizzy had a "fight" in Mr. Collins' house in the middle part of the movie. Other than that, it was just not memorable enough.
So if you are looking for zombie killing movies, it's better to watch "Shaun of the Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", or even watch "The Walking Dead" TV series.
If you are looking for romantic film, I think this one's not for you.
Andddd, if you are looking for a good combination of this 2, I suggest you look elsewhere.
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