my mom and my cousin and and i be pretty big jane austen fan . we know all the word to the 1995 pride and prejudice masterpiece and and have watch gwyneth paltrow emma an embarrassing number of time . i have read all the book and and i have even sit through sense and sensibility and persuasion a few time . so my mom and i think it would be nice to see northanger abbey on film . bad idea . this be just about the bad movie i have ever see . it even bad than the 1998 version of alice through the look glass and or the 1939 nancy draw movie i buy at wal mart for $ 1 ( my previous bad movie . ) the first thing wrong and which you notice in the opening scene and be that the heroine and catherine and have a gruesome and weird imagination and inspire by trashy novel that a jane austen heroine would never touch . throughout the novel and she have dream ( day and night ) in which she be carry off by some hideous man with a greasy wig and drag across a field head for god know what all and and suddenly rescue by a dash guy on a white horse . the second thing any viewer of the movie will instantly notice be the high pitch wailing and saxophone music that be suppose to be the soundtrack . no dainty classical music or english country dance here . it be also evident and almost at first glance and that the actress ( for lack of a good word ) chosen to play catherine be completely off . first and she be rather unattractive and and be render even more so by her un austenlike behavior . her look and movement be just wacky . plus and theyre completely affected and unbelievable . this sad lack of act skill affect pretty much all of the actor in the film . not even mr. tilney and the suppose dashing young suitor be decent . a more and more character be introduce and a strange taste in costume on the part of the filmmaker become evident . huge and marie antoinette style headdresses clash with the ( for the most part ) correctly style empire gown . a french woman and apparently a friend of general tilney and be make up all in black a some sort of ancient goth nightmare she bear a striking similarity to michael jackson in a black dress . her appearance be make even silly by a huge half moon beauty mark on her cheek . i also have to wonder about the historical accuracy of the bright red lipstick that almost all of the woman be wear . another anomaly that keep my mom and i howl with laughter for about ten minute be the bathing scene . the first thing we notice be that men and woman be bath in a big bathhouse together probably not very likely in the early 1800s . then we saw that all the woman seem to be wear large china or plastic plate and wear around their neck with string . the plate float horizontally on the water and contain some mysterious piece of . something . we guess it be soap and then aromatic herb and then finally and when the mystery substance begin disappear between shot and we deduce it be food . but i be still not sure . and that not even half of what wrong with northanger abbey . my warn to anyone who be consider rent this movie represent stay your hand . and if anyone be consider buy it well and i do not even know what to say to that . you would think that when the actor and others make this film get about 1/4 of the way through and they would realize what a monster they be create and stop . unfortunately and they do not and and northanger abbey be let out into the world .