Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 34
  2. Negative: 4 out of 34
  1. Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    80
    Something of a featherweight, but it's also a positively divine comedy.
  2. Fraser and Hurley are terrifically matched for their interplay, and some of the writing is so smart it outclasses the film's cartoonish feel.
  3. The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.
  4. Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    70
    The 2000 version is louder, broader and much, much bigger.
  5. Fraser is one funny, mixed-up guy
  6. As for Ramis, he's no Stanley Donen. He can make us laugh, but he can't make a movie dance.
  7. 63
    It's a cute and clever good-vs-evil parable.
  8. 63
    It's like your appendix - you'll never even miss it.
  9. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    63
    There's no real dazzle in Bedazzled.
  10. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    The important thing is that Hurley looks smashing in her succession of red outfits.
  11. 60
    Quite enjoyable on its own terms.
  12. 55
    Better to wait for movies like Bedazzled on video and watch Fraser in the theatre when he goes back to playing with Gods and Monsters instead of the Devil.
  13. 50
    Walking out of the screening, I was thinking: Elizabeth Hurley for girlfriend, Courtney Love for Satan.
  14. This updated version has the good sense to star Brendan Fraser, who is shaping up as one of our finest romantic-comedy stars.
  15. Should sell its soul for a joke.
  16. 50
    It might not measure up to the 1967 original, but now Satan's got sooty pussycat eyes and a kitten-cruel smile.
  17. 50
    It's nowhere near as funny, largely because of an exhaustingly hyperactive performance by Elizabeth Hurley.
  18. 50
    Should have been a fun update on the 1967 Brit farce. Director/co-writer Ramis comes on too strong with the camper trickery.
  19. It might be worth enduring the Limburger to see Fraser morph from freckled-faced Rod McKuen dweeb to seven-foot albino ball star and never miss a beat.
  20. Reviewed by: John Hartl
    50
    A dumbed-down remake.
  21. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    50
    What the film doesn't have, ironically, is a soul.
  22. Well crafted and mindless in the best Hollywood tradition.
  23. Reviewed by: Steve Daly
    42
    A little more script work, at the very least, should have gone into the manufacture of the black comedy Bedazzled.
  24. 42
    The clothes are worth it; nothing else is.
  25. Though amusing from moment to moment, is erratic, unfocused and uncertain where it's going.
  26. Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    40
    The skitcom format soon becomes tiresome.
  27. A temptation that can be easily and safely resisted.
  28. Hardly lives up to its name -- bedeviled is more like it.
  29. The new version by Harold Ramis trots out a load of bargain-rack gags, tarted up with pricey effects for the A.D.D. generation. Woe to those who cannot leave well enough alone.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. 5002LMfromgamespot
    8
    A great film, with a great cast. Liz Hurley, makes the devil steamy.
  2. ChileanGuy
    10
    In this movie Liz Hurley gave Chile an earthquake... she's so hot, that we don't care about that.
  3. ChrisM.
    8
    A breezy comedy that is so easy to take thanks to sexy Hurley and likeable goof Fraser, who is shaping up into a comic superstar.