100
BBC
Bedazzled is a biting, mischievous and witty satire of the highest order.
Bedazzled
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- United Kingdom
- 1967
- · 103m
Director
Stanley Donen
Cast
Peter Cook,
Dudley Moore,
Raquel Welch,
Eleanor Bron,
Barry Humphries,
Parnell McGarry
Genre
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Romance
Stanley is a cook and is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him at a Wimpy's restaurant. He meets the devil, incarnated as a man named George Spiggot, and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own.
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What are critics saying?
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
In films of this sort, too often the camera records the fun instead of joining in it. However, that is certainly not the case in this magnificently photographed, intelligent, very funny film.
100
BBC by Jason Korsner
Bedazzled is a biting, mischievous and witty satire of the highest order.
88
Portland Oregonian by Ted Mahar
This genuinely irreverent film is one of the few to dabble in theological humor. It's wicked, but only up to PG-level heresy and impiety. [03 Apr 1998, p.38]
75
TV Guide Magazine
Cook and Moore brilliantly shift from character to character with just a change of voice (not unlike Peter Sellers), and the movie never flags.
75
USA Today by Mike Clark
This is director Stanley Donen's spotty but superior original -- made before Dudley Moore's superstardom but after his and co-star/co-writer Peter Cook's Beyond the Fringe stage glory. [06 Apr 2007, p.8E]
75
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Cook and Moore brilliantly shift from character to character with just a change of voice (not unlike Peter Sellers), and the movie never flags.
70
Variety
Bedazzled is smartly-styled and typical of certain types of high British comedy.
70
The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
The movie is no more than a novelty, but it may surprise you by making you laugh out loud a few times.
70
Variety by Staff (Not Credited)
Bedazzled is smartly-styled and typical of certain types of high British comedy.
60
Time Out
Good fun sometimes but a little too sketchy, with a plot that is almost as threadbare as the outfit worn by the voluptuous Raquel Welch in her cameo role as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
60
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
Good fun sometimes but a little too sketchy, with a plot that is almost as threadbare as the outfit worn by the voluptuous Raquel Welch in her cameo role as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
50
The New York Times by Bosley Crowther
Maybe the brand of British banter and buffoonery that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore bombard us with in Stanley Donen's Bedazzled would be very funny if it came in small bursts at not too frequent intervals in an expansive musical comedy or revue. But fired at you exclusively and endlessly for more than an hour and a half in this pretentiously metaphorical picture...it becomes awfully precious and monotonous.
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