Definitely more reviews

More and more newspapers highlight the Jane Eyre reference in the film Definitely, Maybe that we have featured previously (by the way the Jane Eyre edition mentioned in the film is the 1943 Random House with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg).
EDIT: The dedication is another Brontë reference. Charlotte Brontë's poem Evening Solace:

To my darling daughter, April.
"The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;--
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed."
From your loving father.

At its core, this is a clever whodunit — Brooks feeds his script with abundant clues and red herrings — all leading to how Maya came into this world and why her father is not a happy man. Much like "Jane Eyre,” a novel that figures prominently in the plot, "Definitely, Maybe” is a story of self-development that follows Will from youth to maturity, carrying viewers through the twists that got him there. (George Lang in The Oklahoman)

Instead, Will and "April" become "friends," which is to say she tells him an amazingly tender story about how her dead father gave her an inscribed first edition of "Jane Eyre" (apparently not her real name either!), which "April" has been scouring used bookstores for ever since.
I'm sure there must be something significant about the fact that it's "Jane Eyre," even though "April" isn't a homely Victorian governess, she's smokin' hot, ready or not. Trust me, people, you don't get to tell a story like that in a movie like this unless you're somebody special. (Bruce Newman in San Jose Mercury News)

Definitely, Maybe gets too coy in spots, and Brooks is a sharper writer at this point in his career than he is a director. But for a film with a half-dozen fully-formed characters that spans 15 years and works in a swell detail about a 1943 edition of Jane Eyre - well, it definitely works. No maybes about it. (Steven Rea in The Philadelphia Enquirer)

The third woman in Will's life is April (Isla Fisher), a free spirit who listens to Nirvana, rereads "Jane Eyre" every year and enlivens her just-for-the-money job of working a copy machine for the Clinton campaign by saying things like "Don't make me staple your head." It plays better than it reads. (Kenneth Turan in Los Angeles Times)

Isla Fisher plays the next woman to catch Will’s eye, a free-spirited apolitical vagabond whose romantic notions have been shaped by Jane Eyre and who wants to travel the world unencumbered by romance. (Michael Janusonis in The Providence Journal)

April is also given the adorable trait of collecting used editions of Jane Eyre in a quixotic search for the inscribed copy that was her dead father's last gift. (Pamela Zoslov in The Cleveland Free Times)

Finally, there’s April (“Wedding Crashers” fruit loop Isla Fisher), a bright but aimless Clinton volunteer who collects copies of “Jane Eyre” as a sentimental homage to her dead father. (Craig Outhier in GetOut)

[Elizabeth] Banks still has her lovely hooks in his heart, but Will finds his eye wandering in the direction of a quirky copy girl (Isla Fisher) with twin obsessions for Kurt Cobain and Jane Eyre. (Lance Goldenberg in Tampa Creative Loafing)

While at work on the campaign, Will encounters the apolitical April (Isla Fisher, a speedier version of Amy Adams). Nineties alterna-girl that she is, April longs for the older-fashioned romance, as signposted by her particular quirk: a collection of different editions of Jane Eyre. (Richard von Busack in Metroactive)

This is a winning, very satisfying tale that pulls off the tricky double-act of warming the cockles while avoiding easy answers about matters of the heart, such as break-ups, emotional reconciliation and the timeless appeal of Jane Eyre. (Jim Schembri in The Age)

Fisher casts aside her usual kooky screen persona (Wedding Crashers, Wedding Daze), delivering a lovely, measured performance as the feisty confidante searching for a fragment of her past in a copy of Jane Eyre. (Kim Hu in Londonnet)

Then April (Isla Fisher), the exasperating, apolitical and always confrontational redhead who runs the copy machine, plays Kurt Cobain and haunts second-hand book stores for the lost copy of Jane Eyre her father bought and inscribed for her 13th birthday, a few weeks before he died. (Rex Reed in The New York Observer)

The character of April itself is nicely developed: a complex woman with a penchant for collecting secondhand copies of Jane Eyre. (Gemma English in M/C Reviews)

And we're pretty sure haven't seen the end of it yet.

EDIT

Fortunately, Definitely avoids cutesy clichés of the genre and offers more chuckles and plot turns than you might expect. (Even an obvious payoff involving a copy of Jane Eyre has a bit of a twist.) (Matt Stevens in E!Online)

A subplot involving a lost copy of “Jane Eyre” and the sealed-with-a-kiss climax are mush. With such falseness in play, you can’t feel seriously invested in the pairings that occur. (Anita Katz in The San Francisco Examiner)

[April] listens to Nirvana and has spent a lifetime trying to find a lost copy of "Jane Eyre" that was once lovingly inscribed by a relative. (Mal Vincent in The Virginian-Pilot)

Fisher totally inhabits the character of April, and a scene involving her attachment to the novel Jane Eyre is one of the few three-hankie moments here. (Kevin Renick in Playback:stl)

Even I teared up in one part having to do with a special copy of ‘‘Jane Eyre.” Girls will love it, and guys, if nothing else, can dream of Rachel, Isla and Elizabeth. (Karen Schafer in Maryland Gazette)

At the same time, Will meets and befriends April (Isla Fisher), a copy girl working in the office, who possesses a wry, urbane pragmatism and a ready wit. She also has a hobby of collecting editions of "Jane Eyre" and a fondness for Kurt Cobain. (Ronald Ladick in Your Twinboros)

Then April (Isla Fisher), the exasperating, apolitical and always confrontational redhead who runs the copy machine, plays Kurt Cobain and haunts second-hand book stores for the lost copy of Jane Eyre her father bought and inscribed for her 13th birthday, a few weeks before he died. (Christy Meck in The Daily American)

Now April's always been on the lookout for a specific copy of Jane Eyre signed by her father, which she lost at some point. As a result of this pursuit, she's accumulated numerous copies of the same. William finally discovers the book in question but hesitates to hand it over. Despite a brief kiss and revelation of his feelings for her, they eventually part ways and William goes on with his life, now a divorced, devoted daddy. (Rediff)

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