Bedazzled (2000)
49 %
Reviews Counted: 104 Fresh: 51 Rotten:53 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Though it has its funny moments, this remake is essentially a one-joke movie with too many flat spots.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Oct 20, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $36,986,088
Synopsis: BEDAZZLED is a fiery romantic comedy starring Brendan Fraser as Elliot Richards, a bored and boring computer programmer who is in love with Alison Gardner (Frances O'Connor), a lovely coworker who doesn't even know he exists. In a desperate attempt to gain Alison's affections, Brendan... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Orlando Jones, Lou Ferrigno
Director: Harold Ramis
Screenwriter: Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan
Producer: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis
Composer: David Newman
Screenwriter: Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan
Producer: Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis
Composer: David Newman
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Hurley is great fun to watch, a Faustian powerhouse of curves, smoky eyes and big hair who sounds exactly like Jackie Collins doing an imitation of Madonna's pan-European accent. It's creepy, but effective.
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10/18/07
Decent enough entertainment as written, though many will regret the movie's eleventh-hour detour into pieties.
07/23/07
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04/05/07
As if by magic, this lowbrow film falls together and works in a charming, goofy way.
05/26/06
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01/26/06
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03/03/05
There's nothing here that's liable to set you pondering metaphysical questions, but Bedazzled is a perfectly reasonable excuse for a none-too-bright Hollywood comedy.
01/02/05
For a comedy about heaven and hell, Bedazzled doesn’t make it out of purgatory.
06/12/03
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05/22/03
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12/02/02
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09/10/02
A slapstick morality play about the dire consequences of selling one's soul to the Devil and trying to find happiness in wealth, fame, power, or intellectual prowess.
08/21/02
Curiously, the new version omits much of the material that made the first movie so memorable -- including the nuns on trampolines -- and replaces it with gags that probably seemed much funnier on paper than they are on the screen.
06/10/02
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