Bedazzled | | Cast : | Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley | | Director : | Harold Ramis | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 20, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | April 15, 2003 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Superior remake of the original | Content
 | This film is a superior remake of the original English version which stared Dudley Moore. The reason it's superior rests squarely on the two leads Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley. Fraser is convincing in the multi part role and shows great comedic timing and range. HOWEVER it is Hurley who "steals" the show as the sexiest devil ever imagined by man or Hugh Hefner. She is breathtaking as the delectable diobolical vamp in red. Every inch of her is squeezed into every outfit and she plays it to the hilt. She is fantastic beyond belief. You must see her in this role. Buy it today! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 01, 2005 | | Summary | HELLISH HURLEY | Content
| BEDAZZLED suffers the curse of the needless remake. The original was such an unusual film when it was released back in 1967, I don't know why anyone felt it necessary to offer a newer, flashier version. At any rate, I found myself chuckling at some of the antics Brendan Fraser has to go through after selling his soul to the luscious Elizabeth Hurley. Fraser is a game actor, and usually throws himself head first into his role. This time around he gets to be an obnoxious lonely nerd; a Colombian drug lord; an ultrasensitive man who cries at sunsets and treatment of dolphins; a handsome author with a male lover; a basketball player with no i.q. at all, and even a doomed President. It's certainly not an awful movie; it does have some good moments and watching Fraser and Frances O'Connor in different vignettes is amusing. Just doesn't seem it was necessary to make the film again. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 28, 2005 | | Summary | Dumbed down, a numbing disaster. | Content
| This is a radical dumbing down of a great film. The great film is "Bedazzled" of 1967 by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a multi-layered delight as well as a deeply insightful variation on one of the most famous legends in Western Civilization: the man who sells his soul to the devil for (choose any or all of the following) sex, pleasure, riches, power, or to know all things as God knows them. Cook and Moore, by both word and action, refer back to Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus," to Goethe's "Faust," and even to Hannah Arendt's theory of the "banality" of evil with reference to the Holocaust, and they do it with the wacky finesse one associates with Monty Python. Philosophy, theology, the slapstick of vaudeville, the Irish-accented intellectualism of James Joyce, upper-class Oxbridge-snobbery, the trench-coated detective of the English mystery novel, your grandmother being bilked by traveling salesmen, Raquel Welch playing the Deadly Sin of Lust as if she were Scarlet O'Hara from "Gone with the Wind," puns high and low, and loud, wet "thhhpts" of raspberries thhhpt'd in hopeful despair - the 1967 film lacks nothing of humor and insight into the foolish and dangerous desires and yet loving and redeeming intentions of humankind. Now, the 2000 version - well, dudes, it's a masterpiece of simple-minded dialogue and cheap sexual imagery. The list grows ever longer of those who are waiting for the 2000 "Bedazzled" to fade from view so that the owners of the rights to the 1967 "Bedazzled" will finally come to their senses and release it digitalized on DVD. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 01, 2005 | | Summary | 'Bedazzled' (20th Century Fox) Running time: 93 minutes | Content
| Review no.158.Have never been able to understand why so many movie fans that I've run across hate this flick.A few I know like totally refused to ever even watch it.I thought it was great!A year after this was released,I saw the 1967 original with Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke.In my most humble opinion,it was lame.'Bedazzled' is sort of a tear-jerker in a way when you see it for the first time.The Devil(Elizabeth Hurley)comes to help office geek Elliot Richards(Brendan Fraser)romance and win over his beloved heart throb,Alison(Frances O'Conner)who,of course he can NEVER have.Problem is Richards must sign a very thick contract that entitles him to seven wishes to get WHATEVER he wants in exchange for his soul.The Devil,needless to say does everything in her power to 'screw' things up for him.My favorite scenes are 1)When he's on the beach romancing Alison as THE 'most' sensitive man in the world and starts to cry about the dolphin's potential danger,2)When Richards is teasing his co-worker(s) in the office and being REALLY annoying and 3)When he's in the police station trying to convince the police chief that the devil made him go insane the way he has.A lot of laughs here.Recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 25, 2005 | | Summary | hellaciously funny as the cover says on the front. | Content
| so funny I almost cried.
a brilliant duo Elizabeth Hurley and Brendon Fraser make
see this movie
it will make you laugh so hard you'll forget how much it hurts to laugh hehe
I am so glad I saw this trailer online for this movie
it was worth the buy and look on dvd
count on it being viewed more times
you'll never know how much your soul really means to you until you give it away to the wrong person. lesson learned and a very touching and funny story |
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