Archive listings for Bedazzled (2001)

Observer (11Jan01): Devils or angels turn up in the cinema most weeks nowadays, the current offering, Bedazzled, being a re-make of Stanley Donen's moderately amusing 1967 British comedy, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, that starred Cook as Mephistopheles offering seven wishes to Dud's lovestruck London nebbish. The Devil is now a glamorous, confident Elizabeth Hurley who runs a Faust-aid post in San Francisco and darts hyperactively around town looking and talking like Nigella Lawson preparing dinner. Her principal client is a gauche computer programmer (Brendan Fraser) incapable of getting his wishes right and thus always getting what Marilyn Monroe (in Some Like It Hot ) called 'the fuzzy end of the lollipop'. The result is, like Ally McBeal, very thin and quite funny.