Bedazzled

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Summary: So good I have seen it 15 times!
Review: This is one of those rare movies that can be watched over and over and over and not lose any of its comedy. Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley turn in terrific performances. Elizabeth Hurley fits in well as the devil and Brendan Fraser with his abilty to fit any character makes Elliot the most retarder loserish person ever. Gabriel Casseus also turns in a stellar performance albeit a small one. Great movie 2 thumbs up!

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Summary: Don't make a deal w/ the devil,
Review: I saw this movie a while ago with my friend and I have to say it was one of the most sadistically hilarious movies ever. I like both the two main actors. Both have caught my attention over the years for films they have been in. I can honestly say this ranks up there with my fav. movies of all time. Let me set the stage for you, may I? Thank you. We have a guy who works in his little cubicle all the time and is chuckled at by his coworkers behind his back. He realizes that he wants to really be liked by everyone and have the girl of his dreams. So he makes a deal with the devil and gets 7 wishes to go through anything he wants. It's a rather interesting movie and I enjoyed it. rent, if you like it buy it. Take my word for it.

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Summary: A good ol' time at the movies.
Review: Elizabeth Hurley was an ideal choice for the role of Satan in "Bedazzled," opposite Brendan Fraser, who is also well cast as a misfit who offers his soul in return for seven wishes. The movie is a remake of an original film, and while it may tend to drag down a bit in its final acts, the result is a comedy tour-de-force which had me laughing and feeling pleased throughout.

What more pathetic character could we ask for in Elliott, the computer technician with no life? Elliott has no friends, but that doesn't stop him from conversing with his coworkers whom he thinks are actually listening. When his attention becomes snagged by fellow coworker Allison, her rejection brings him to the attention of a mysterious woman in red who reveals herself to be the Princess of Darkness. Her plan: to offer him seven wishes in return for his soul, and while he remains skeptical, the thought of being with Allison (with the help of Satan's television screens) drives him to accept the offer.

This is where the movie gets good, as we follow him on his many adventures accompanying each of his wishes. His first wish, to be rich and have Allison for his wife, lands him as a Spanish cocaine dealer whose wife is cheating on him with her English teacher, followed by his second wish to be emotionally sensitive, which drives Allison into the arms of a shallow man ("I just want someone who wants to get in my pants"). Elliott soon catches on to Satan's tricks, yet still keeps taking his wishes, with hilarious results.

First and foremost, the performances from Hurley and Fraser are what make the movie worthwhile. Brendan Fraser looks like he's having so much fun playing his role, segueing from a fast-talking Mexican who speaks multiple languages, to the overtly sensitive red-haired boy who bursts into tears at the glance of the sunset. Hurley gives a smashing performance as a female Satan, her accent adding wit and charisma to a role that is being dealt with in a new way. In watching "Bedazzled," I could see how much fun the two actors were having in playing their roles, which made the movie more enjoyable and the comedy more comfortable.

That comedy arises from many different things: first, there's the relationship between the two characters. Satan knows that she's not going to live up to her promises entirely without flaw, which leads to some very funny results as Elliott discovers each wish's put-off. I also found a great many laughs during the opening sequence, which singles people out in the frantic pace of life and labels them with a certain flaw. Add a bit of witty dialogue and a goofy character on his way to his dreams, and what you've got is a reasonably successful film which delivers what it was intended to: laughs.

Which is why the ending, for me, doesn't quite live up to the rest of the material. The laughs seem to fizzle out a bit: they're still a couple of chuckle-worthy moments at hand, but not on par with the hysterics of the first two thirds of the movie. I originally intended to dispute the way in which the movie "cops out" by taking the approach it does in the end, but once I thought about it (and you'll understand me when you watch it yourself), there really was no other way for it to end and still retain a certain lightheartedness.

On a slightly off-the-subject opinion, I also felt that the film had a good advertising plan going for it. The preview trailers don't give away all the laughs, and the movie takes certain turns that we don't get to see in the ads.

All-in-all, "Bedazzled" is a regular comedy made just a touch better by the bright and vivacious performances of its leads. The fun they have in creating their characters' body and verbal language is laugh-out-loud funny, while the situations they find themselves in aren't original, but still have comedic charm.

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Summary: Fraser brings several characters to life
Review: Elliot (Brendan Fraser) would give anything to have coworker Allison in his life. When the princess of darkness (Elizabeth Hurley) offers Elliot seven wishes in exchange for his soul he accepts. With every wish he makes the devil finds a way to ruin it for Elliot.

I thought this movie was very funny. Fraser is a genious, each character he plays is so different and he pulls it off. Elisabeth Hurley and Frances O'Conner were good in thier roles but I thought Orlando Jones was not used enough. The dvd has a decent amount on it like a making of featurette, extended scene, trailers and more. Also there is a huge part of the movie that was cut probably to avoid an "R" rating and it is hidden on the disk. To access it go to the second page of special features and move the cursor to the right, a devil will appear on Hurley's shoulder and press select.

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Summary: Liz Hurley is Sizzling
Review: Brendan Fraser and Liz Hurley shine in this fairly average film. Fraser as a geek named Elliot who is in love with a co-worker who barly knows he exists. Hurley plays the Devil who apears when Elliot says he'll sell his soul for a chance to get closer to her. After being convinced that she's the devil, Elliot finally agrees to exchange his soul for 7 wishes. However, every time he attempts to amke a wish it goes horribly wrong.

Unfortunatly, the film just doesnt work. Maybe its that Elliot is so naive that after each wish goes wrong he still keeps wishing! Although the film is worth seeing for Fraser's brilliant comedy and Liz Hurleys collection of red revealing outfits.

There is a very funny line when Elliot says, "I can't lose my soul", and the devil replys, "who are you james brown". Funny stuff.

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Summary: Brendan Fraser is excellent
Review: We've all heard it before, the devil wants you to sell your soul and sure enough, a character in the movie goes for it. That's the premise, what happens now?

Frasier's character is a nerdy, tech support guy who the devil picks out of the billions of souls on Earth to tempt into selling his soul. Fraser plays this character to a tee. Despite the fact that Fraser isn't really a nerdy type at all, he's gives just the right amount of hesitation and lack of self confidence to pull it off. I can't imagine anyone doing a better job.

I can't say the same for Elizabeth Hurley. Her devil is second rate, even though some of her scenes are well written (whenever Frasier meets her, she's doing something evil, making parking meters run out early, putting m&m's in for drugs at a hospital etc.), she just doesn't convince me.

Fasier on the other hand is a genius. Despite the mediocrity of the rest of the film, this is a must for any Brendan Fraser fan. He's great in all his incarnations, the nerd, the Colombian drug lord (his Spanish and Russian are flawless), the super basketball player and especially the most sensitive guy in the world. He is funny, but it's just barely enough to pull this movie out of it's cliché and tired plot of the poor guy selling his soul to get his wishes. The movie is worth a few laughs, but don't expect a great comedy.

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Summary: It was good but could of been better..........
Review: I was READY to run out and rent this movie, and when I did ..... It wasn't as GOOD as I thought it was going to be. It was still a good movie, and I would watch it again......but if i had a choice out of 10 movies it would rate about a 5 on my list. What through me off? Well, with out giving the movie away. She wants his soul, so in trade he gets 3 wishs (i think thats the number), So, he would make a wish and she would send him off. And those were the parts that i didn't take too.....they were TOO corny. But the rest of the movie i did throughly enjoy. It's a lil of take the bad with the good.....atleast the good out numbers the bad.

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Summary: Cold day in hell...
Review: On paper, "Bedazzled" has a lot going for it: a premise with possibility, the director of the classic "Groundhog's Day" and "Caddyshack" (Harold Ramis), big-budget makeup, and (as anyone who's seen the preview can attest to) tons of sexy shots of a scantily clad Elizabeth Hurley. Unfortunately, the making of great comedies involves a lot more than simple addition, and "Bedazzled" too often resorts to visual glitz instead of the key ingredient - humor.

The plot sounds good enough. Elliot Richards (Brendan Frasier) is a hopeless geek who desperately wants to be liked by his co-workers and, most of all, a girl named Allison, who he's had a crush on for two years. During a particularly depressing trip to the bar, where he's dissed by Allison and mercilessly teased by co-workers, Elliot runs into, of all people, The Devil (Liz Hurley). The devil gives Elliot an offer he can't refuse: in exchange for his soul, he will get seven wishes, each ostensibly including Allison.

From here, we watch as the confused Elliot tries to wish his way into the life of his dreams, all the while trying to outsmart the crafty devil. When he wishes to be rich and powerful, he becomes a hunted druglord. When he wishes to be a basketball player, he finds himself dreadfully short of, shall we say, "equipment". When he wishes to be suave and intelligent, Elliot becomes a gay man. You get the idea.

Sounds okay, right? In execution, though, the plot simply seems to jerk from one slightly amusing motif to another with little continuity. At times, the movie feels more like a series of loosely related sketches than a major motion picture. When the protagonist changes personalities every ten or fifteen minutes, it is difficult for the audience to truly empathize with him, as "Bedazzled" proves once and for all. Individually, the performances are passable, but the interaction between actors lacks any chemistry whatsoever. Elizabeth Hurley has a sense of humor and gumption that belie her supermodel looks and Brendan Frasier is versatile and amusing in his many roles. The essential problem here is that Hurley and Frasier are both "straight men" - the type of actors who are good at looking outraged at the "zany character's" shenanigans. Yet, neither has the over-the-top charisma of a Mike Meyers or Jim Carrey or the deadpan gravity of a Bill Murray or Ben Stiller. Neither is really suitable to play a comic lead. To make matters worse, anyone who has seen the commercial for "Bedazzled" on T.V. has essentially seen a passable synopsis of the film and all of the movie's few funny scenes. Once you've seen all of Brendan Frasier's silly outfits and every one of Liz Hurley's tantalizing getups, there really isn't a good reason to catch "Bedazzled".

Conclusion: "Bedazzled", a few sight gags aside, is one of the least funny comedies in recent memory.

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Summary: I never stopped laughing!!!
Review: I know that this movie isn't exactly a deep, life-changing experience, although it does have a really great "be yourself" hook at the end. But, I am sorry, this movie is so good! Brendan Fraser really proves himself as a comedic actor, and never fails, portraying, really, 7 different (althouogh, intertwined) characters in one film. Elizabeth Hurley is as provocative as ever, and the supporting cast really clicks. Also, on this DVD, the commentaries are really interesting. You get a lot of the "behind-the-scenes" stuff with director, Harold Ramis, and funny "on screen" stuff with Hurley. If you like dthe movie, I think that you would find what they have to say worth-while. Oh, also there is a hidden 10-minute sequence of the "rockstar wish" which was cut from the final movie (it was instead of the Abe Lincoln thing). It is funny, but edgy, which is why it was cut.

All that I have to say is when I watched this movie for the first time in the theaters, I laughed through the entire movie. I seriously cannot remember a time when I laughed harder (especially through Fraser's rendition of 'The Dolphin Song'---I am talking HILARIOUS!!!) Anyway, I really think that anyone would like this movie, yeah, maybe it isn't the most intellegent thing in the world- but you'd be surprised! ;)

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Summary: Underrated pleasure
Review: This movie works because of Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley. Brendan Fraser shows once again what impeccable comic timing he has as amiable loser Elliot, and while Hurley's comic timing is less impeccable, she makes up for it with the sheer and obvious pleasure she takes in the role of the Devil. She and Fraser have good chemistry, and it's impossible not to love them both, particularly when there are so many good side gags to accompany their scenes--i.e., Hurley throwing a flaming cocktail into a parked convertible, which promptly catches fire in the background as she and Fraser obliviously carry on their conversation, Hurley causing parking meters to expire by snapping her fingers; Hurley hissing at a cat and scaring it away, to name just a few.

The movie drags in places (the scenes of Elliot as a basketball player, Elliot's conversation with his jail cellmate, who's more than what he seems) and rings somewhat false in others (the heavy-handed "moral" of the story which Hurley recites in her final speaking scene), but if you're willing to overlook them, and I was, you will have a jolly good time.