| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
Something of a featherweight, but it's also a positively divine comedy.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Outrageous fun.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Fraser and Hurley are terrifically matched for their interplay, and some of the writing is so smart it outclasses the film's cartoonish feel.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.
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| 70 |
Variety
The 2000 version is louder, broader and much, much bigger.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Fraser is one funny, mixed-up guy
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
As for Ramis, he's no Stanley Donen. He can make us laugh, but he can't make a movie dance.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
The important thing is that Hurley looks smashing in her succession of red outfits.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
It's a cute and clever good-vs-evil parable.
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| 63 |
USA Today
There's no real dazzle in Bedazzled.
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| 63 |
New York Post
It's like your appendix - you'll never even miss it.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Quite enjoyable on its own terms.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Inferior remake.
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| 55 |
TNT RoughCut
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.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
It's nowhere near as funny, largely because of an exhaustingly hyperactive performance by Elizabeth Hurley.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
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.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
It might not measure up to the 1967 original, but now Satan's got sooty pussycat eyes and a kitten-cruel smile.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Should sell its soul for a joke.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Walking out of the screening, I was thinking: Elizabeth Hurley for girlfriend, Courtney Love for Satan.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A dumbed-down remake.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
This updated version has the good sense to star Brendan Fraser, who is shaping up as one of our finest romantic-comedy stars.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
Should have been a fun update on the 1967 Brit farce. Director/co-writer Ramis comes on too strong with the camper trickery.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Quite funny and eye-catching.
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| 50 |
Film.com
What the film doesn't have, ironically, is a soul.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Well crafted and mindless in the best Hollywood tradition.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
The clothes are worth it; nothing else is.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Steve Daly
A little more script work, at the very least, should have gone into the manufacture of the black comedy Bedazzled.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
A mite sluggish.
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| 40 |
Time
The skitcom format soon becomes tiresome.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Though amusing from moment to moment, is erratic, unfocused and uncertain where it's going.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
The opposite of memorable.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A temptation that can be easily and safely resisted.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Hardly lives up to its name -- bedeviled is more like it.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
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.
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