For those who have read the book they have made minor tweaks to the story which, I feel, may have been decided on by the author herself as they seem to fit the romance of the story just a little bit better and make the main male lead just that little bit more perfect.
I was surprised by Austenland because the ending (no spoilers here) took me by surprise. It's worth watching just to get to the end and go "Ohhhh" when you realise something you assumed was truth wasn't so much by the end.
The story itself is about a young woman, named Jane Hayes, who goes on an Austen style holiday using the whole of her life savings, as opposed to the book where her great aunt pays for the package as a gesture of good will after she passed away. In the film she embarks on the holiday to discover that she has the basic package and is therefore a mite undesirable as a client and the proprietress lets her know this by giving her the worst of everything. At the park she gets to meet handsome men who will supposedly woo her along with 2 other ladies. As well as one of the servants that catches her eye as well. There are some very good scenes in this film and some of the lines are either amazingly witty or absolutely hilarious, many of which come from Jennifer Coolidge's character 'Miss Charming "Pip pip, tally ho" etc.
One good thing to come from this film is deciding how much I love JJ Feild. I've actually seen him in a number of programmes and films but never really looked at his work as a whole. An amazing actor that I have now watched in Northanger Abbey and I'll soon rewatch ruby in the smoke and Shadow in the North (Based on books by Philip Pullman_)He also did some weird films called the Tusle Luper Suitcases, but they may be worth a watch as, at some point, he is allegedly naked and covered in honey.
The film is on sale in the UK in the first week of February and I urge you to persuade someone to buy it you for valentines day, or give in and buy it yourself. I very much look forward to the extras and hope they have blooper reels.
