Rating: 
Summary: Worth watching
Review: I had never heard of this movie before, but when I saw it on sale at Circuit City for a fistful of dollrs, I didn't hesitate to pick it up, thanks to Elizabeth Hurley's gracing the case cover. Besides, I'm a Brendan Fraser fan.The movie didn't disappoint. As you probably already know, Fraser stars as an IT nerd who agrees to sell his soul to the Devil (Hurley) in return for seven wishes so he can get the girl of his dream (O'Connor). Only five wishes are really played out (not counting the stupid "I wish I had a Big Mac and Coke" gimmick), and each one has a funny twist. Fraser totally excels as his typical funny-as-monkey performance. The first "rich and powerful" wish is by far the best of the five, with a nice make-up job, too. The others have their funny moments, but all leave something more to be desired by the audience. Hurley is a bit disappointing. She looks old and not really that hot. (The HBO special feature, however, has her looking really attractive, better than in the film itself.) Frances O'Connor is excellent and adorable, especially at the end. The three supporting actors are good, too. In the end, this is a fun movie many will surely enjoy. As with other Fraser movies, you can't take it too seriously!
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Summary: A wickedly funny movie
Review: Bedazzled is a surprisingly smart, genuinely funny movie about the wishes we all make and the fallacy of our belief that wealth, fame, love, etc., will truly make us happy. Taking the Dr. Faust theme to unheard of heights, the devil takes the form of Elizabeth Hurley who is indeed constantly bedazzling in a long list of outfits taken straight from the minds of adolescent teenaged boys (and a few of us who used to be adolescent teenaged boys). Gorgeously naughty, she is the epitome of temptation. Brendan Fraser gives a terrific performance as seven characters all wrapped up in one. Elliot Richards is a socially inept computer nerd who is not even very good at being a loser. He tries way too hard to make friends, and he even does the one thing that losers must never, ever do: admitting his crush on a woman who doesn't even know him. This leads to public embarrassment, as I could easily have told the guy, and soon Elliot unwittingly dial's Satan's number by saying he would give anything to have Alison Gardner (Frances O'Connor) in his life. Elizabeth Hurley looks nothing at all like the traditional devil, but she has comparatively little trouble convincing Elliot of her identity and getting him to sell his soul in exchange for seven wishes; I mean, what guy wouldn't give in to the seductive delights of Elizabeth Hurley? You really have to be specific when you are making wishes, as Elliot soon learns as a series of fantasies fulfilled quickly fall through: fame, power, and marriage to Allison is dangerous as well as unfulfilling, the life of an unbelievable star athlete comes with its own little problem (wink, wink), intelligence and savoir faire misses the mark, and becoming the most sensitive man on earth is quite simply a big mistake. Elliot, his sweetie Allison, and his co-workers all appear in these separate wish-fulfilled lives, each actor adopting a number of very different roles over the course of the film. The results can be hilarious, and there was at least one surprising wish fulfillment that never appeared in any trailer. Fraser has always seemed to be something of a stiff actor to me, but he shows great versatility in his performance here, taking the challenge of his role and running with it. Frances O'Connor is an increasingly sweet delight, as well, and Elizabeth Hurley is simply fantastic and utterly enchanting. There are lots of special features on the DVD. Besides a theatrical trailer and several TV spots, you get two commentaries by the director and actors (including Hurley), a quite impressive featurette hosted by Hurley herself on the making of the film, a still gallery, and a look at the impressive costuming that went into the making of the film. Best of all, though, you get an extended scene of six minutes featuring Orlando Jones and Toby Huss offering post-game commentary after Elliot's amazing NBA debut. The scene is hilarious in the movie, but the extended scene takes the hilarity to absurdly funny levels. Every so often, you can hear a direction pointing the guys toward a certain type of comment on the game, but Jones and Huss seem to be ad libbing the entire commentary, constantly outdoing one another with some truly inane babblings. The only thing that disappointed me about this Special Edition DVD was a lack of deleted scenes. My favorite couple of seconds from the trailer was not actually in the movie, and the featurette informs us that there was originally a scene with Hurley taking on the guise of a French maid. The filmmakers obviously didn't realize how cruel it would be to tell us of such a scene and then not include it anywhere on the DVD. That one omission aside, I pretty much loved Bedazzled; it's just a smart, funny, sexy movie.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad
Review: This movie isn't too bad. Actually it is halarious at times. The overall message of the moving is great, so there's a actually you learn something by watching this movie. The special effects are pretty good, the setting seems to be San Francisco.
Rating: 
Summary: Cliché no more!
Review: Basically, this movie is about a devil (Elizabeth Hurley) seducing an innocent "Elliot" (Brendan Fraser) to the seven wishes. Here is a part of the devil-talk: "I know that every night you go to your horrible little apartment. You eat your little frozen dinner. You make a little bowl of popcorn and you watch TV and you can't keep your eyes open any more. And then you crawl off to bed and wonder why you're alone and nobody likes you...and you cry...I know what's in your heart....you could cry right now-" A line like this almost has a rhythm and rhyme of poem. It rings in your head after each cadence. But then this is a movie without pity. The ways in which the devil talks to a human friend is an angel dressed up in devil. The question then is: can anyone live with the "devil"? Where can you go off to find such devil who can grant every wish of your heart? In movies? In Elizabeth Hurley? You really have to get this on DVD so that you can watch it again and again. Elizabeth Hurley's British accent and "acting" appear so effective that not only you have to sell your soul but you desperately WANT to sell your soul at any expense beyond the seven wishes. Here is another devil-talk: "I ruin them? How can you say that? I'm not perfect you know. Do you think I enjoy this? I'm stuck in this horrible job for eternity. Everybody hates me. I can't sleep when I should try to help someone they're turning me like I'm supposed to be a God or something...For your information my life is a living hell. I work hard, I tried to look good for you...I just wanted you to like me....Don't give up on me...I'm not giving up on you...Nobody gets it totally right right away, but your doing great.....Really...you are. I'm sorry your wish didn't work out...Friends?
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Maybe I am easily amused, but I thought this movie was hilarious. I think maybe some people expected way too much out of it. It's a really light, fun comedy. It starts with Elliot (Brendon Fraser) who is a big nerd and is madly in love with a co-worker, Alison. On the night of a horrible day he meets the devil (Elizabeth Hurley). She gives him 7 wishes, and this is where it just gets downright funny. I don't want to give away the funny parts, but my favorite scenes have to be where Elliot wants to be "the most sensitive guy in the world" after he reads Alison's journal. The other one is where he wants to be an NBA player - the way they filmed it is great - he looks like he's 7 feet tall. And the announcers just crack me up. The last wish or two are not as funny as the first bunch - but overall it was a good movie. It has a moral, and a slightly different happy ending than expected. I liked it, my fiance and I both get a kick out of it every time we watch it.
Rating: 
Summary: What the "hell" was i thinking??
Review: This movie was a joke(unfortunately not in a good way)!When i heard of it,it looked promissing because Fraser and Hurley were starring in the movie,and i'm a fan of both.So,What went wrong?
I`ll tell you what went wrong:This movie provides nothing new,maybe except for the script,that i thought it was somewhat good and not usual in a comedy film,that's why i rated 2 stars instead of 1!Even a stupid ten year old kid could write better jokes than the ones on this movie!Don't waste your money on this one!
Rating:
Summary: Funny for a MINUTE!
Review: This movie was kind of funny with the man's 1st wish, but as the movie went on and on it got really boring and predictable. You are better off getting something else and more funny. I seriously almost fell asleep during this movie! GET SOMETHING ELSE! There is a major reason why this movie is so low priced! Waste your moola on something that is a real COMEDY!
Rating: 
Summary: Belabored bedraggled & totally unfunny
Review: Brendan Fraser is a very funny & talented guy but he gets stuck with some truly lousy scripts & costars. I guess Hurley is the current version of Raquel Welch & lord knows you sure can tell she's trying hard to seem sexy, which is not the same as being sexy. Amazing, too, how badly Frances O'Connor comes off in this, the way she's photographed & the unsympathetic way her part is written. This movie blatantly treats women like dislikable discardable objects, to put it politely. Another Hollywood clunker.
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Summary: Devilish fun...
Review: The Devil in a totally different dimension! Liz Hurley plays an excellent and extremely goodlooking Devil who is out to get Elliot's (Brendan Fraser's) soul. In return for his soul, Elliot, a lonely work-aholic, gets 7 wishes. Unexpected and funny twists make the movie well worth seeing. Elliot's main aim in the movie is to be loved by the woman of his dreams, Alison. However, in every one of his wishes, the Devil tries to mess things up and Elliot ends up being a number of charcters. (Eg: drug lord, NBA star and emotionally sensitive person) If you're up for a laugh and some excellent acting, watch the movie. I have seen it several times and every time it's great.
Rating:
Summary: Devilish fun....
Review: Bedazzled gives the Devil a totally new look! Liz Hurley plays a goodlooking yet cheeky Devil who has granted the character of Elliot (Brandon Fraser) 7 wishes. Elliot, a lone work-aholic, is madly in love with a woman, Alision, and is willing to sell his soul to the Devil for these 7 wishes. If you're looking for a movie with funny and unexpected twists, this is it. Because every wish puts Elliot in a different place, as a different character. While the Devil has decided to have some fun with him, and so he goes from being a drug lord, to an NBA player to an emotionally sensitive guy. Altogether, a brilliant movie, with Fraser really being a different person in every one of his wishes, and Hurley being a sneaky devil.
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