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Bedazzled [DVD] [2000]
enlarge	Director: Harold Ramis Actors: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy Used: £1.16 as of 21/11/2009 12:28 GMT details You Save: £11.83 (91%) New (20) Used (27) Collectible (2) from £1.16 Seller: zoverstocks Rating: 12 reviews Sales Rank: 14273 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 90 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036007498 ASIN: B00005NOM5 Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2000 Release Date: August 2, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Brendan Fraser stars in IBedazzled/I as Elliot, a dweebish office worker who yearns for Alison (Frances O'Connor), a coworker who barely knows he exists. When he blithely says he'd give his soul for Alison, the Devil appears in the fetching guise of Elizabeth Hurley and promises him seven wishes in exchange. Elliot is dubious at first, but agrees out of desperation. Unfortunately, his every wish always leaves the Devil with a little wiggle-room. When he asks to be rich and powerful, the Devil turns him into a drug lord beset on all sides. When he asks to be a successful, well-endowed writer, the Devil adds a male lover to the mix. The setup and situations are clever, though this IBedazzled/I has less bite than the original 1968 version starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. It does, however, provide some better comic substance for Fraser than most of his previous roles and will give his fans something to enjoy. O'Connor is entirely pleasant in her largely straight role, and Hurley fills out her part delectably by filling out a number of revealing outfits. This is an enjoyable bit of froth. --IBret Fetzer, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 12 1 2 3 Next » wicked!!! September 4, 2001 mentalmelly@talk21.com (oxfordshire, england) 6 out of 15 found this review helpful I love this film! Elliot (fraser) is desperate to have friends, he's a total loser so he sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 7 wishes with hilarious results, nothing turns out the way he hopes! just when you think you know what will happen next something completely different happens! fraser is a great actor and pulls it off brilliantly! he has to play several different characters, one of which he's gay! you must buy this film..... its well worth it!!!!!!! Awesome November 3, 2009 Mrs. E. Granger (Norfolk, England) The film Bedazzled is a great classic. The men love seeing Liz Hurley in those sexy outfits and I personally love seeing the gorgeous Brendan Frazer. It is a romance and comedy all in one. Great story line, makes you think of what is really important in life. Definately one of my top favourite films. Better than you'd expect July 29, 2002 Mr. John Phillips (West Midlands, UK) 10 out of 11 found this review helpful I kept the tape of this film for months because I wanted to see the original first. Now that I've seen both, I have to say that the new version is a lot better than I expected. Only using the basics of the original, rather than doing an out-and-out remake, we have a film which is highly entertaining in its own right.p Its main strength lies in shrewd use of the actors. Fraser performs well in a wide variety of roles, while Hurley gives an Anne Robinson-like performance between the fantasy scenes, while her appearances in the fantasies themselves is restricted to popping up occasionally, saying little and looking pretty. To her credit she does a great job between scenes of conveying the Devil's enthusiasm and delight for everyday acts of mischief.p The new Bedazzled avoids the main flaw of the original, namely that whatever the scene, Cook and Moore effectively played out their familiar personae over and over again. Here, Fraser handles a series of roles brilliantly, while still letting us believe that he's the same character underneath. This is most notable in a scene where he plays a basketball star frustrated at only being able to speak in cliches (Give 110%, There's no I in TEAM etc). In fact, even as an avid Peter Cook fan, I have to admit that the bulk of the film is actually slightly funnier than the original, something I never in my wildest dreams expected. Although it's a shame that certain key scenes from the original aren't recreated, particularly those which explore the relationship between the two characters, it's good that it doesn't try to stick to the original too much (besides, you have to suspect that Hurley would make a mess of such scenes).p There is a but, though. While the orignal's ending is excellent, the new ending is absolutely appalling. After an embarrassingly bad scene in which a giant Hurley holds Fraser in her hand and berates him for refusing to cooperate (forcing Hurley to act, and inevitably failing), while the closing monologue, far from Cook's promise that to fill the world with all that's bad, is a sickly-sweet sentimental lecture about how it's up to us to build our own Heaven here on Earth. Oh please, this garbage would look over-the-top on Sesame Street, never mind something that features Peter Cook's name in the credits. Far from Moore's Stanley Moon telling the Devil to Get stuffed, we actually see the two parting on good terms, and Elliot dancing off into the sunset, which seems firmly against the spirit of the original.p Considering that I was expecting a catastrophic rehash of the original, the film was a very pleasant surprise. The relationship between Hurley and Fraser seems a little forced, but that's only because it's hard not to compare them to Cook and Moore. It's not over-Americanised, although the ending is a distinct piece of Hollywood slush, and overall I see no reason not to recommend it even to the most sceptical of Cook Moore fans.p BUT - Why on Earth hasn't the original been re-released? A wickedly funny (not to mention sexy) movie September 14, 2003 Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA) 18 out of 21 found this review helpful 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? pYou 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. pThere 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, and sexy movie. An Enjoyable Movie- Worth Watching April 19, 2003 10 out of 12 found this review helpful I bought this DVD in a 'buy one get one free' deal, so I expected it to be complete pap. But, it's not. brSome of the situations are very funny (especially the scene where Fraser is a writer)- and you just can't help but laugh. However, at the same time, there are some scenes that start off funny and just get so over-done that you get a tad bit bored.brBut the performance from the stars is, I think, overall very good. Brendan Fraser is very comic in his various states (and hairstyles), and makes you giggle. brAnd, suprisingly enough, so does Liz Hurley. I thought very little of her performances before (also of her films ie- Austin Powers), but in this she is very purswasive. Unlike Fraser at times, Hurley is not too silly. She keeps her accent and character the whole way through. brI especially like the relationship between her and Fraser; they had good chemistry.pSo, all in all, this movie is fun- and is to be taken (very) lightly. I reccommend watching before buying, though! Showing reviews 1-5 of 12 1 2 3 Next »

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