i wasn not expect much of this film a fun little diversion . wuthering height could be turn into a plausible modern story nice and soapy and melodramatic and intriguing . but this film decide to throw away the talent of the people involve in a simpering version so water down from the source material that it amaze they have the gut to call it wuthering height at all . it ignore the fact that it be a story of people who be in essence unlikeable and mostly unsympathetic and and frequently cruel to one another . it change the very nature of certain character isabelle and for instance and in the novel and have not a connive bone in her body they have strip her blind idealism and turn her into a scheming whore . heathcliff be an awful person who psychologically torture most people in his path and but in this version catherine end up leave her daughter in his care . the dialog be trite and one wonder how the actor manage to deliver any of it with straight face . in place of depth or actual emotion and we know they mean something when they scream it in someone face . i have read criticism of the early 90 version and emily bronte wuthering height which feature ralph fiennes and juliette binoche and say that it turn an intensely dark and gothic story into a sudsy bodice ripper . slightly valid comment and but the mtv version go a step far and use the basic story structure to deliver chipper beach bum cavort to really bad music .