From Prada to Nada

Everything about this cheery sit-com-type Jane Austen-meets Cinderella rom com is utterly predictable.

It's just predictable rom-com fare in need of a lot more spice.

The broad humour and cultural caricatures in the film's opening moments will be especially dispiriting to any English literature professors in the audience.

While this is no Clueless, to be sure, it's also, thankfully, no Born in East L.A.

If the effort to shoehorn Austen's social commentary into a modern context sometimes seems nonsensical or forced, the actors-especially now-grown Spy Kid Vega-have charm to spare.

There's something crassly disingenuous about the movie's blatant demographic pandering (hooray for immigration-panic jokes!) and half-a--ed condemnation of gluttony.

Clever update on the classic Jane Austen story

a predictable film that could have benefited from a little more thought and perhaps less reliance on clichs.

There is nothing new in this film at all.

I'd hate to learn the producers struggled to amp the ethnicity of the actresses when that precious time clearly should've been devoted to reworking a wheezy, clumsy script.