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2013 |
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COMEDY
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C |
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97 |
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An embarrassment.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Austenland is a would-be frothy but hopelessly crude romcom about a young American woman (Keri Russell, pictured) infatuated with all things Jane Austen who goes on a themed holiday in England which promises her “the full Jane Austen experience”.
Our heroine happens upon a smorgasbord of bad actors overacting horribly in terrible English accents.
Fatally, writer-director Jerusha Hess, who made Napoleon Dynamite, has little or no understanding of Austen’s strengths and weaknesses. Anyone hoping for a witty spoof or half-way decent romcom will be disappointed.
There’s little sense here, and far too coarsened a sensibility.
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, J.J. Feild 