Bedazzled (2000)

Very disappointing...

the audience applauded

Nice effects though.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I haven't seen the 1967 original version of "Bedazzled", so I can't compare this 2000 version re-make to the original. With that in mind, I can say that this 2000 version is actually a fun and entertaining movie.The story is about Elliot (played by Brendan Fraser) whom is an overlooked guy desperate for attention and acceptance. When he runs into a very charming woman, who turns out to be the Devil (played by Elizabeth Hurley), he is given 7 wishes by trading his soul to the Devil. Can Elliot manage to find happiness, love and respect through his wishes? What works for "Bedazzled" is the hilarious situations that Elliot ends up in through means of his wishes, as the Devil tends to put a wicked twist on each wish, resulting in something other than what Elliot had hoped for.The cast were doing their part to make the movie work. And the two lead parts as played by Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley had great chemistry together and they both lifted up the movie quite well. Brendan Fraser was well-cast for the role of a dweeb character. While Elizabeth Hurley was no menacing Devil, she sure had the charm and sales pitch to pull off the role. And the supporting cast of Orlando Jones, Paul Adelstein and Toby Huss were also hilarious in their various roles throughout the movie.Director Harold Ramis had a great sense of comedy touch and "Bedazzled" bears witness to that quite well."Bedazzled" is a fun movie and a movie that can be watched more than once. I am rating it a solid six out of ten stars. If you enjoy comedies, then "Bedazzled" is worth sitting down for 93 minutes to watch.

Elizabeth Hurley, still best known for her '90s relationship with Hugh Grant, and Brendan Fraser, star of Furry Vengeance, team up for this 2000 remake of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook's acerbic 1967 comedy Bedazzled: it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but even though the style of comedy is far removed from the original, Bedazzled 2000 succeeds in delivering its fair share of laughs, as well plenty of sexiness courtesy of Hurley.Fraser plays social pariah Elliot, who finds it hard to make friends and can only dream of a relationship with the apple of his eye, work colleague Alison (Frances O'Connor). When Elliot says that he would do anything to have Alison in his life, the Devil (Hurley) seizes the opportunity and offers the luckless loser seven wishes in exchange for his soul. What follows is a series of comedic episodes that see Fraser adopting numerous different guises, allowing the actor to surprise the audience with his versatility (Fraser is almost unrecognisable at times), while Hurley is predictably wooden, but distracts the viewer by slipping into several very sexy outfits for the connecting interludes.Of course, the devil being the devil, none of Elliot's wishes go according to plan, which leads to some very funny situations for the hapless dork, all of which are confidently handled by director Harold Ramis. This being a Hollywood film, it all works out well in the end for Elliot, who beats the princess of darkness at her own game thanks to his selfless heart, before finding love, not with Alison, but with her dorky doppelganger who just happens to have moved in next door.6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for giving me the phrase 'small, wet, salty badges of emotional truth' and for Hurley's amazing array of hotter-than-hell get-ups, which include sexy nurse, sexy traffic warden, sexy cop, sexy teacher, sexy cheerleader, sexy bikini, sexy angel, sexy lawyer, and, in the deleted 'rock star' scene, sexy maid.

In Bedazzled (A remake of the 1967 Dudley Moore & Peter Cook movie of the same name) Elliot (Brendan Fraser) is granted 7 wishes by The Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) so he can win the woman of his dreams, in exchange for his soul. Brendan Fraser seemed to have been around forever without making an impact in anything till "The Mummy" but as shown there, he is a very capable leaving man. Despite the fact it had been 13 years since her acting debut I still think of Hurley as the girlfriend of Hugh Grant. Who stole all the media attention at the premier of his movie Four Weddings and a Funeral in "that" black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins. I'd only seen her in the first "Austin Powers" movie and as the media hungry man eater in EdTv. (Art imitating life, if I have ever seen it) but here her acting is OK, and she is very attractive (especially when she dons a school girls uniform) probably, the most attractive I have seen her. None of the rest of the cast were memorable or stand outs, including the woman of Eliot's dreams whose face and name I could by even remember an hour after the movie ended.It's a tad predictable, the devil doesn't play fair, the hero does some soul searching before his final wish, and it's all wrapped up nice and neatly at the end A pleasing way to spend 90 mins, but I doubt I'll have a real desire to revisit the movie ever again.

I know I can't give you some insights about the movie that would mean a lot. Anyway, I think it made the best out of the story about the devil and even though it can't compare to Ma vie es un enfer, it was a nice comedy to watch. Elizabeth Hurley is a great comedian, really. I didn't expect something that good from a model. Along with Brandon, it was a nice dialogue to watch. I would also say each story had its unique insights that I found not too pretentious and just the kind that would make you think about some things in life, but not too seriously. I don't understand why that comedy wasn't unappreciated in its time. It served everything that a good funny movie ought to - nice laughs, fresh jokes, good acting and an interesting story. I enjoyed watching it and I recommend it to everyone, as long as they feel like watching a fine comedy.