Bedazzled

• Cert:
• Cat.no: 20018 RDVD
• Running time: 90 minutes
• Year: 2000
• Pressing: 2001
• Region(s): 2, PAL
• Chapters: 15 plus extras
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English
• Widescreen: 2.35:1 (Panavision)
• 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 5
• Price: £N/A
• Extras: None
  

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  Director:

  Harold Ramis

  (Analyse This, Bedazzled (2000), Caddyshack, Club Paradise, Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, National Lampoon’s Summer Vacation, Stuart Saves His Family)

Producers:

Screenplay:

Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan(original screenplay by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)

Music :

Cast :

Elliot Richards: Brendan Fraser
The Devil: Elizabeth Hurley
Alison: Frances O’Connor
Carol: Miriam Shor
Dan: Orlando Jones
Bob: Paul Adelstein

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

Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) is a loser in life, love and everythingelse. All his work colleagues think he’s a joke and he’s desperate to gettogether with the girl who doesn’t even know he’s alive, Alison (FrancesO’Connor). When The Devil appears in the form of Elizabeth Hurleyshe 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 toAlison and to be rich and powerful ends up a disastrous mess, but after theinitial hiccup will he learn for next time?

So where does it fall down? Well, Fraser and Hurley are fine for the materialthey’re presented with and put the required effort into their roles, despitethe fact that I must be the only guy who doesn’t find Hurley the hot babe themedia portrays her to be. The problem comes that, although it’s far from thepainful experience I expected, for a comedy it just doesn’t make you laugh andin the end the movie proves that you can’t change certain parts of the worldto your advantage and when it comes to love, the Pet Shop Boys‘ LoveComes Quickly was right in that love will come “..just when you leastexpect it, just what you least expect”.