Not that "Importance of being earnest" needed such an ambience. I loved the play and I am a great fan of Oscar wilde (one of the wittiest, funniest writers ever!). So, Watching a movie based on the play in english (I can't stand to watch a movie based on wilde's play in german!) with a cast as accomplished as Colin Firth, Reese witherspoon (and the other lady who was the queen in Shakespeare in love) was quite a treat. The movie is an ideal saturday movie. It is lazy, doesn't keep you hooked to the seat, is often funny and is sometimes outrightly stupid. You slip in and out of the movie, laugh for the right jokes and stare at the cinema's halls rest of the time :)

While watching the movie, I remembered that I had learnt the word perambulator for the first time while reading this play (It was part of our curriculum. I remember finding it utterly boring then!) - a very trivial detail but with it comes a truckload of memories of the school, the teacher and a very faint memory of having enacted the play in the classroom (was I jack worthing? I know two guys who can clarify that for me :)