Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

MBunge I'll leave to others the question of whether this is a true and faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's great play. What concerns me is whether this work stands on its own merits and I'm happy to say it does. With a setting like Jane Austin, star crossed lovers like Shakespeare and mistaken identities like Three's Company, The Importance of Being Earnest is a delightfully funny truffle. The acting is light and wonderfully mannered. The direction opens things up without getting lost in the scenery. Wilde's wit is always distracting. Aside from Rupert Everett glowering at inopportune moments, I can't find much wrong with this film.Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) is a country gentleman in turn of the century England with a beautiful young ward (Reese Witherspoon) and an odd vice. Whenever Jack goes to London to see his old friend Algy Moncrieff (Rupert Everett), Jack pretends to be his own non-existent younger brother named Ernest. Whereas Jack in the country is proper beyond proper, Ernest in the city is almost as big a scoundrel and Algy. Ernest is also very much in love with Algy's spirited cousin Gwendolen (Frances O'Connor), but the imperious Aunt Augusta (Judi Dench) stands in the way of any romance. Though Ernest/Jack is a man of means, Aunt Augusta can't overlook his lack of family. Jack, you see, is an orphan and was discovered as a baby in a handbag left in the cloakroom of a railway station.Hold on, because things just get more complicated from here. Algy heads out to Jack's country estate and passes himself off as the fictitious Ernest in order to woo Jack's ward. Jack's none to happy to be forced into going along with the deception, especially when Gwendolen sends word that she's coming to the country to be with her Ernest. Two men trying to be the same man who doesn't exist turns out to be too much to manage and Jack and Algy are left to try and win again the hearts of the women they love, only to have Aunt Augusta show up and throw another spanner into the machine.From the schoolgirl fantasies of Jack's ward to Algy's efforts at avoiding his creditors to Colin Firth's adorable turn on the banjo, this is one of those movies at which you can't stop smiling. It does enough to establish the strict social mores of its setting but doesn't hesitate to indulge in entertaining anachronisms, like Algy playing a mean ragtime on the piano. With Judi Dench superbly playing the implacable force driving the other characters to exasperation, the comedic energy of the story never settles in one place long enough to get bogged down in any details of realism or plausibility.I will say The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps the best instruction into why Rupert Everett didn't become as big a star as his talent warranted. Much like the young Alec Baldwin, there's something off putting about him on screen. When Algy acts the cad, Everett can play that perfectly. When he has to moon over Jack's ward, Everett never looks, sounds or feels quite right.Watching this has made me want to go out and see both a stage production of the play and check out the original big screen adaptation from 1952. That's about the highest compliment you can give a film like The Important of Being Earnest and I hand it out with no reservations.

thenachokiter Great film I must say. A good adaptation of the play. The lines where there, the characters (mean old Victorian Lady Bracknell), with a little change in focus of Earnest and Algy instead of Lady Bracknell and her Victorian manners.Great cast, great production = very fun pleasing film, walking away with more than just an adaptation of the play. Excellent wardrobe design. Yet I feel somewhat bothered by the bookworms, theater fans, film fanatics who feel discouraged to view a written work of art in a different manner from the original work. Little people who nag and complain if things are not represented in the exact same way they are made. That is why it is called an adaptation which is not the same as representing the exact work.I read the Importance of Being Earnest and I've seen various films about it, yet this one has an entirely different focus than the others, much like the many Shakespearean films about the same play made with different visions of representing it in mind...I must say critics to review anything in life one must know about its history, its inner and outer workings and learn how to review a work of art not just on biased opinions if you liked it or not, but on review of the work, of the production and the written play. Its not a misisnterpretation, is an adaptation...yes that means you O_O.

Framescourer Given the rather impressively weighted Ideal Husband this is a disappointment - indeed it feels like an afterthought. The cast isn't bad. It might be said that this is simply a vehicle for Rupert Everett's peculiar, Edwardian Anglo-masculine camp to which Colin Firth gives as good as he gets. Witherspoon and O'Connor are sharp but not insubstantial. For all that Judy Dench is a sharp-tongued matriarch, she also has a twinkle in her eye.The problem is in the execution. It feels like an over-staged version as if it were some sort of musical, where the vim and sparkle that is a function of the script becomes it's content. The gay-NY sitcom Will & Grace is a fine modern example of how to strike this balance well (albeit over 25 mins). I'm afraid that this simply falls into the rather indulgent traps Parker sets himself with its precursor. 3/10

jimakros Like my title says,this film has beautiful photography,great locations,some great period sets,great costumes,in fact the production leaves little to be desired. The cast seems perfectly tailored for this type of film,with the exception of American actress Witherspoon who IMO could have been replaced by a British actress. I'm no expert in Oscar Wilde,but i know i greatly enjoyed the "ideal husband" with R.Everet,and i was expecting something similar with equal charm.This was not it. This film has no rhythm,no sense of development ,the staging of many scenes is completely unimaginative,the competent actors seem to have had no help whatsoever from the director in the delivering of classic one liners and have problem breathing life into these classic comic situations.In a word it is very badly directed. The end result is a good-looking picture that drags on and never makes one laugh. its unfortunate because with this cast and production values,this could have been a classic.