42
A little more script work, at the very least, should have gone into the manufacture of the black comedy Bedazzled.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Should sell its soul for a joke.
50
It's nowhere near as funny, largely because of an exhaustingly hyperactive performance by Elizabeth Hurley.
70
The 2000 version is louder, broader and much, much bigger.
42
Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan
The clothes are worth it; nothing else is.
50
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
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.
63
There's no real dazzle in Bedazzled.
63
Miami Herald by Sara Wildberger
It's a cute and clever good-vs-evil parable.
55
TNT RoughCut by Susannah Breslin
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.
75
San Francisco Examiner by Walter Addiego
The ending is a disappointment, a perfunctory upbeat gesture.