SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Mimi Marinova I read the book some days ago and was very impressed, so I decided to watch the movies too. I was disappointed. I couldn't finish the 1999 version at all, and this one either. Well, this one was kinda better, but still it missed some important stuff from the book. First of all, Fanny was too lively, running around and laughing like crazy. This is not Fanny from the book. She is supposed to be very composed and shy. Sir Thomas was too mean. Lady Bertram wasn't beautiful at all. She is supposed to be an extraordinary beauty and of a very sweet temper. Nothing like that. It looked like Mrs. Norris and Lady Bertram were switched. Mrs. Norris was more beautiful and talked in this gentle voice. Whoever did the casting for this movie was really incompetent. Henry Crawford was not very charming either. He is supposed to have this talent of making women fall in love with him. Well, you couldn't get that from the movie. He looked quite unattractive, not only in terms of looks. The actress who played Mary Crawford was the only good thing about the movie. She looked and acted exactly as she is supposed to be in the book. Edmond was supposed to be much more in love with her though, we don't really get that. In terms of the plot, they omitted stuff that was important. For example, the conversation of Maria and her father where he asks her whether she still wants to get married to the idiotic fiancé, and she says "yes." Well, from how it was put in the movie, it doesn't make sense why she'd say she still wants to go along with it. But in the book this conversation is preceded by Maria's disappointment in Henry Crawford. She expects him to propose and be serious about his intentions, instead he goes on a trip for weeks without even writing to her. She marries Mr.Rushworth as a sort of a consolation and revenge to Henry.The picnic scene is stupid too. It's supposed to be a ball and Fanny has to open the dancing with Henry. We don't get that at all. We don't get the whole story around the golden necklace that was given to Fanny by Mary. Actually, that's as far as I got because it was unbearable already.

Ben Larson I have to confess that I have little experience with Jane Austen, or with period pieces. I only came to this film as it stars Billie Piper of Dr. Who fame.Of course, the costumes of the period show off Piper's assets, as well as everyone else.One thing I find fascinating is the constant focus on marriage. It seems that love hardly enters the picture. It is a competition to see what kind of a match (titles and/or money) can be made.I was beginning to despair that Edmund (Blake Ritson) would ever choose the right woman to marry, but he got his head right in the end.

TheLittleSongbird In my opinion, I'd say yes, well it's either between this and the 1980s Northanger Abbey. I love Jane Austen, her language, her characters and how she evokes the period. I also love various adaptations of her work, especially the 1995 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. As much as I didn't like the 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park, at least you could tell what period it was meant to be set in. This Mansfield Park may not be badly shot and the scenery looks great, but I saw very little evocative about the period recreation, I missed the atmosphere that even 2007's Persuasion(disappointing as that was) had and all the best Austen adaptations have and to me it felt too much like a costume drama being shot against a modern era rather than being transported through a time machine. The music wasn't terrible but there wasn't anything exceptional or dynamic about it either. What was terrible was the script, the first person narration was very badly written and not needed and a lot of the lines were stilted and cheesy in alternative to poetic and sophisticated. The story also disappoints, the adaptation is too short so consequently the storytelling feels too rushed complete with characters that you just don't care anything for and very little of the attitudes and statuses of the time which would have given it some authenticity. I wasn't too thrilled about the casting either, the actors are good and try their best but it is all a wasted effort when their characters and story aren't very interesting or well developed. I do have to agree that Billie Piper is completely wrong for Fanny Price, she was too modern and I could really have done with much less of how flirtatiously Fanny was portrayed. Overall, a mess saved by some good photography and scenery. For my tastes, this was a failure both as an adaptation and on its own merits, and is one of the least authentic Jane Austen adaptations you will find. 1/10 Bethany Cox

skfla500 Maybe I've seen one to many period pieces recently but I found this remake to be less than interesting. Billie Piper plays role of Fanny Price and if you really like Piper than perhaps you'll like her in this role but otherwise, no. Other than cuteness, she really seems to bring nothing of note to the role. You get no feel for the character or the emotions shes supposed to be going through. This Fanny Price has no flavor. None. And perhaps its trite, but there's something about Piper's trademark bleach blonde hair with the dark eyebrows that seems totally out of place for time set of the movie. I mean, did she just run off a Dr. Who shoot and couldn't go either totally black, brown, blonde or maybe even red? The other characters are equally challenged in their roles. Since it's a made for TV rendition perhaps I'm being overly harsh but if you want to see Mansfield Park, pick up one of the other versions.