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Just perfect...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

I only just recently watched the 2009 Emma, and have previously only seen the version with Gwenyth Paltrow. When I first started watching this adaptation, I wasn't quite sure I would like it. Emma and Mr. Knightley didn't "look" as I pictured (Emma was supposed to be a brunette and not quite so tall, and Mr. Knightley was supposed to look older and just be more "authoritative" looking!).As it went on (and over multiple viewings), RG and JLM really won me over with their interpretation of the roles. Emma (and Mr. Knightley) are just so likable, and I love how clear it is throughout the movie the affection (as a "brother", friend and then suitor) that Mr. Knightley has for Emma, despite their spars. They both seem to genuinely "like" each other, as they should, having known each other all their lives. Furthermore, there is much conveyed through their body language and expressions that I didn't appreciate until I went back and re-watched some scenes.I have many favorite scenes, but the ball at the crown inn is a highlight (sigh, so much is felt without a word being said!). I also especially love the proposal scene, as Mr Knightley looks so vulnerable and dejected when he finally asks her if he ever has a chance (and why wouldn't he, when she just told him to stop talking!). I really felt for him, and was so happy for him that he finally got all that he deserved!There were a few things I didn't like, one being the pivotal scene where Mr. Knightley reprimands Emma at Box Hill. It wasn't terrible, but in the book, it is supposed to pain him to do so. In this movie, he seemed only to be yelling at Emma. Also, Jane Fairfax didn't act or look like the Jane Fairfax I envisioned. I didn't love some of the new scenes that were added. (For example, the scene were Emma declares that she and Mr. Knightley cannot marry, I found to be a bit melodramatic)Some of the criticisms for this version include comments that some of the mannerisms are too modern for the period, but I'm OK with that. To me, they made the characters more relatable.Overall, I really liked this adaptation. Not perfect, but great in many ways!

As a fan of Jane Austen and in particular as a fan of Emma, I was quite excited when I heard of this BBC series (after seeing the brilliant adaptation of pride and prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth). However, Jane Austen fans, be warned!! This series was far from accurate to the book! The beginning, although also not a feature of the book, I found to be interesting as it builds up the connections of certain characters at an earlier period of time, however the continual exclusion of some of the most witty and entertaining passages of script written by Jane Austen made it almost unbearable to continue watching yet I stood strong. And not surprisingly this strength was tested again through the mix up of some characters roles (Mr John knightley examining and telling Emma about Mr Elton's attraction towards her, Mr Elton's immediately known attraction towards Emma with no hint of it being directed towards Harriet, and the poor choice for the role of Emma who seems too modern with common speech and lack of refinement) it was all very wrong! and so much pointless and horrible dialog was added in replace of Jane Austen's own words! I have to give it some credit for if I had not read the book previously I think I would have enjoyed it but as that is not the case, I'm left to say in the words of Mr knightley, a 'badly done Emma!!'

I have read everything Jane Austen wrote, and now I'm working on re-reading her novels, listening to audiobooks of them, and watching all the film adaptations. This version of Emma comes alive more than the other Emmas as well as some of the other titles.When I first started watching it, I didn't think Jonny Lee Miller was tall enough, handsome enough, or refined enough to be Mr. Knightley. But, by the time I had finished watching it, his tremendous acting skills had me falling in love with his Mr. Knightley. Who could resist him?Romola Garai also owns her role.Don't miss it.

not that there's anything the matter at all with the two 1996 versions of Austen's novel or their two Emmas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale, but I think that Romola Garai releases an Emma that's perfect: her obtuseness as far as the hearts of others are concerned is matched perfectly with the special kind of air-headed charm that Garai delivers (so very far from the sensible Cordelia she delivered in Ian McKellen's "King Lear"). Paltrow was beautiful, Beckinsale sweet, but Garai manages an Emma who seems unaffectedly oblivious to her own beauty and sweetness and only strives to do right by others – and fails. This appears to me to be the essence of the character that is the most fallible of Austen's heroines, with the possible exception of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey." But apart from that, the scenes between Garai's Emma and Jonny Lee Miller's Mr. Knightley are electrifying. Especially their argument after Emma has talked Harriet Smith into rejecting Knightley's champion, Robert Martin. Miller's Knightley doesn't just correct Emma with a wish to render her a more blameless person – this Knightley truly enjoys his rows with Emma, without knowing it himself, of course: that clearly comes across.The fact that the Director O'Hanlon has been extremely aware of every opportunity of non-verbal communication where the camera studiously catches every frown, every half-smile, every twinkling of an eye makes this version a pure delight to watch from beginning to end.It's lovely.