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Dom Robinson reviews

Bedazzled: Special Edition

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Based on the original Bedazzled from 1967, written and starring the late, great Peter Cook and the ailing Dudley Moore, I came to this remake with some trepidation going by all the bad press I had heard about it beforehand.

Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) is a loser in life, love and everything else. All his work colleagues think he's a joke and he's desperate to get together with the girl who doesn't even know he's alive, Alison (Frances O'Connor). When The Devil appears in the form of Elizabeth Hurley she claims to be able to give him seven wishes in return for his soul.

His problems don't end there though as his first wish to become married to Alison and to be rich and powerful ends up a disastrous mess, but after the initial hiccup will he learn for next time?

So where does it fall down? Well, Fraser and Hurley are fine for the material they're presented with and put the required effort into their roles, despite the fact that I must be the only guy who doesn't find Hurley the hot babe the media portrays her to be. The problem comes that, although it's far from the painful experience I expected, for a comedy it just doesn't make you laugh and in the end the movie proves that you can't change certain parts of the world to your advantage and when it comes to love, the Pet Shop Boys' Love Comes Quickly was right in that love will come "..just when you least expect it, just what you least expect".


Like the rental DVD for What Lies Beneath, Fox have sourced a well-rendered anamorphic widescreen transfer. Shot in 2.35:1 Panavision, every scene would suck badly in pan-and-scan. However, the only downer is that the the filming process used has a weird effect of making people's heads look stretched in certain scenes and it's rather off-putting at times.

The sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1 and has its brief moments, but isn't in anything exceptional.

Previously arriving on an extras-free rental DVD, the extras consist of a Making-of Featurette 'hosted' by La Hurley herself, but it runs for just 13 minutes, features the usual chat from the cast and crew and non-anamorphic 16:9 clips. Yep, no surprises here. Then follows just over two minutes of when the music score was recorded over a fantasy scene, which is nothing to write home about.

Two Deleted Scenes are included: one "Basketball Game" which is just the two commentators chatting away pointlessly and "Rock Star Fantasy", running for just over ten minutes and turns Fraser into an Alice Cooper-a-like swearing at his roadies, but all the "fuck" and "cunt" swearwords are bleeped out so what's the 15-certificate in aid off when it's attributed to this scene?? It's because of these 15-cert deleted scenes that the front cover says "Now even hotter! With deleted scenes too sizzling for the cinema". All people do is swear and the back cover attributes the latter scene as the sole cause of the 15-cert when it's down to both of them.

Fox, cut the crap, this is complete bollocks and you know it. Stop trying to confuse the public like this! By the way, these scenes are in non-anamorphic 2.35:1.

There's also a 5-minute Costume Design Featurette, Stills Gallery, a Trailer, 3 TV spots and Two Audio Commentaries, one with Harold Ramis and the other with Liz Hurley and producer Trevor Albert.

When you first run the disc you can choose from four options: Rich, Famous, Intelligent and Sensitive, which displays a different main menu, with the same sub-menus underneath, but sadly all of these are static and silent.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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