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I'll just get this out of the way first - Austenland is not a very well made movie. It's structured poorly and written badly. And that hack who wrote Twilight produced it. Really, there's nothing for anyone except Jane Austen freaks and chicks who like guys with British accents. Luckily, I fall into both those categories. Lucky you! Mostly, this movie is a romcom and a love story to Jane Austen fans. Jane (yes, that's the lead character's name) is an Austen addict who bankrupts herself to go to a gaudy Austen theme park in England, and she embraces it at first until she realizes that she can't really tell what's real and what's being acted out. Really, that's it. It's based on a cute book, though. Read the book! Keri Russell (Felicity, bitches!) does a cute, ditzy turn as Jane, and she has a meet-cute with Bret Mackenzie (of Flight of the Conchords and the coolest Muppet songs ever written - he won an Oscar last year!), and a meet-Darcy with JJ Feilds (whom I recognized from his preformance on a Northanger Abbey rendition made a few years back - I need help). The traditional love triangle ensures, but I say Bret wins just by charm alone. Jennifer Coolidge gets to ham it up as the resident comic relief, and James Callis (of Battlestar Galactica fame)is a hoot as one of the actors. (Even though, yes, the character's gay, movie writer. No need to shove it down our throats.) The actors make the movie what it is. Anyhoo, it's all over the place. I can't wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone, but it's funny and cute and has a great joke revolving around Nelly's "Hot in Heeere" song. Enough said.