Northanger Abbey on DVD (2007)

M Proctor from Wirral , 26/03/2007

Jane Austen's weakest novel is transferred to screen with all the skill and sensitivity we have come to expect from Andrew Davies. In my opinion this is the best Northanger Abbey to date!!!

  11 out of 15 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Kent, England , 22/06/2007

Not as good as we thought.

  5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

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Frances Toorawa from Hemel Hempstead , 28/03/2007

I thoroughly enjoyed it! Andrew Davies does it again!!!

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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filmessychic from England [Highly rated reviewer] , 09/08/2008

The outfits were nice and pretty, the setting was how you would imagine it to be. The actors were dull, and the storyline is typical Jane Austin. I have seen better Jane Austin films, starring big names like Kiera Knightley. But this film had no one, who was new and famous adding to the cast. This was plain and simple, but not all of was bad! The music is nice.......and peaceful. Unfortunately i fell asleep watching it.

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Young girl in search of husband, likes scary tales ect-2 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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debzeb from Birmingham , 29/06/2008

Having never read Mansfield Park or seen any other adaptations, I was quite keen to watch this recent ITV version. For the most part it's fantastic, Felicity Jones plays the fanciful, sweet Catherine Morland with a fitting innocence and is really very likeable. JJ Feild is a typical Austen gentleman and William Beck shines as John Thorpe. For me the biggest disappointment of the film was in the ending. When so much detail had been given to trivial parts of the storyline and Catherine's fantasies, the climax of the film seemed ridiculously rushed. The conclusion of the romances happened within the last 2 minutes of the whole film and some were relegated to a very blunt voice-over. When you've been waiting the whole film to see what happens, it's disappointing for it to fly by in one short scene that could have been really savoured instead.

It's still very watchable and it's definitely entertaining, but try not to blink in the last few minutes or you might be left wondering quite what happened.

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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AlxF from Bexley , 07/03/2008

For a Jane fan this film will not disappoint, though a bit more flesh than the others

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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