This was a BLAST. It’s played perfectly straight with an ensemble of highly adept British actors and the results are delightful and bad-ass. It takes a while to get to the mash-up, zombie-killing badassery, but when it arrives it’s not as incongruous as you might think. Writers walk a fine line between the Austen and the Grahame-Smith revisionism, and ultimately there’s a little more Austen in the mix. This movie is for a very specific audience, though, as you would have to be aware of and enjoy both corset flicks and zombies, because liking only one of the genres could sometimes mean you intensely dislike the other. No surprise: box-office and reviews for this were bad. But this is a hoot -- definitely worth catching. And it’s STRONGLY recommended that you view a straight Austen adaptation first, to prime the pump.
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