Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply Perfect

Awesome Movie

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie) is a BBC film directed by Jon Jones. The movie is based on Jane Austen's novel, which was written when she was young, and never published in her lifetime. The brilliant Andrew Davies wrote the screenplay.Because Northanger Abbey was written by Jane Austen, we can reasonably assume that it will be about men seeking wives, and women seeking husbands. In the early 19th Century, men had options, but women didn't. The situation was made worse by the fact the even rich men wanted to marry women of wealth. That meant that poor women might have to marry men they didn't love, or not get married at all. It's hard to say whether Jane Austen realized the injustice of the social system, or whether she just took it for granted. After all, that was the reality of everything she saw around her.There's a theme in the novel that reminded me of Don Quixote, written 200 years earlier. Don Quixote reads too many chivalric romances, and eventually believes that he's a character in one of those romances. Similarly, Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones), reads so many Gothic novels that she begins to believe that she's living in one. That's especially true when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, a huge, dark structure presided over by the harsh General Tilney (Liam Cunningham). Cunningham captures what I think was Jane Austen's concept of the man. General Tilney does something that goes far beyond impoliteness. We don't doubt for a minute that he would do it.Catherine is in love with her soulmate Henry Tilney, played by JJ Feild. (He's the Genera's son.) The course of true love never did run smooth, and Northanger Abbey is no exception. It's a Jane Austen novel, so you know the outcome. It's the way Austen--and director Jones--bring us from start to end that makes the movie worth seeing.I truly enjoyed this film, even though Northanger Abbey is one of Austen's less admired works. Jane Austen was a genius, and even her lesser novels are worth reading and watching in a movie.Felicity Jones is beautiful, JJ Feild is handsome, and it's a BBC production. If you love Jane Austen, you'll love this film. If you don't care much for Austen, I'd still recommend this movie.Because this film was made for TV, it works well on the small screen.

Having just read the book I thought it would be a good idea to see if there had been made any TV adaptations of the book. Finding that there had indeed I decided to watch it. And too be honest it turned out to be quite a disappointment. I think my disappointment was mostly due to the fact that I had had just read the book and was actually able to remember the story and therefore being able to see that this adaptation didn't have much to do with it. The general is being described as a coldblooded vampire and the story is being overdramatized, not at all in the spirit of Jane Austen. The acting is however descent and some of the roles have been well casted.I found the book a lot more entertaining and it being so short i found it very strange that they should choose to alter so much.

This is a really lovely TV/film version of this book, and of course... the script is by master adapter Andrew Davies. He is just magnificent. Carey Mulligen (Bleak House, The Amazing Mrs. Prichard) is a young actress who really understands period drama, and can bring her full self to it without seeming modern. She is excellently cast as the "bad" friend of the lead. Catherine Walker gives us an excellent interpretation of the "good" friend, and JJ Field gives us the most charming Henry Tilney. He is handsome and smart and fun and good. (The stuff of a girl's dreams, as he is supposed to be.) Despite the short running time length, everything is here that needs to be here, and the costumes in this are gloriously beautiful, and tell us a lot about the character. We have only to look at the neckline of Isabella & Eleanor's dresses to know all we need to know about them. Felicity Jones as our lead Catherine is just perfect... all the right notes. I did enjoy the version done in the 1980s?... even though the fantasy sections were very modern pop-punk with music by "art of noise." It worked... but this current one will be much more enjoyed by the purists. ENJOY this masterful adaptation!

I've really enjoyed that adaptation. It's witty, charming and the necessary changes brought to the book narrative are clever and do not jar too much with the original. It made me reread the book, which I think should always be the effect of a good adaptation.The actor playing Henry Tilney was charming (maybe more than the book Henry Tilney in fact) and all the others seemed to fit their roles. Carey Mulligan makes a very effective Isabella Thorpe and plays her part with subtlety while Felicity Jones looks just naive enough for the role of Catherine. I was only bothered by the choice of William Beck of Robin Hood to play John Thorpe. His physical appearance simply did not seem to fit the character. He is a very good actor but hardly attractive enough to make a valid love-interest for romantic Catherine.The only reason I do not give it "10" is because of the absurd over-sexualisation of Catherine's dreams or the lending to her of "The Monk" by Thorpe. This is taking incredible liberties with the historical period in order to "make it relevant" to 21st century viewers which TV film-makers must assume to be incapable of viewing anything with interest if it does not contain overtly sexual contents, though the contrary has been proved again and again.