Film reviewers wallow in Austen allusions
Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reviewing the film WEDDING CRASHERS, uses a Jane Austen allusion:
Although Crashers broadly satirizes the modern matrimonial-industrial complex, moresubtly it plays with the conventions of the man-trap movie. That’s the one in which female friends (one usually a pragmatist, the other a romantic) cast their lines and reel in husbands. (It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen invented the genre.)
Ah, if it were only that easy. 
(Thanks to a certain Janeite Spy for the original tipoff on this one!)
Van Gower and Steve Weinstein, reviewing HAPPY ENDINGS for the New York Blade, get the “Well Said” award du jour:
By the time the young couple leaves to return to the city, all four lives have changed irreparably. Young limns these changes with the same fine brush strokes with which Jane Austen once famously described her writing: on a “piece of ivory, two inches wide.”
Like Austen, Young knows that less is more. Four characters can define the world.
Yep.
