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Cert:

Cat.no: 20018 RDVD

Running time: 90 minutes

Year: 2000

Pressing: 2001

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 15 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Languages: English

Subtitles: English

Widescreen: 2.35:1 (Panavision)

16:9-Enhanced: Yes

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: DVD 5

Price: £N/A

Extras: None

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Director:

Harold Ramis (Analyse This, Bedazzled (2000), Caddyshack, Club Paradise, Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, National Lampoon's Summer Vacation, Stuart Saves His Family)

Producers:

Trevor Albert and Harold Ramis

Screenplay:

Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan (original screenplay by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)

Music :

David Newman

Cast :

Elliot Richards: Brendan Fraser
The Devil: Elizabeth Hurley
Alison: Frances O'Connor
Carol: Miriam Shor
Dan: Orlando Jones
Bob: Paul Adelstein

Based on the original Bedazzled from 1967, written and starring the late, great Peter Cook and the ailing Dudley Moore, I came to this remake with some trepidation going by all the bad press I had heard about it beforehand.

Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser) is a loser in life, love and everything else. All his work colleagues think he's a joke and he's desperate to get together with the girl who doesn't even know he's alive, Alison (Frances O'Connor). When The Devil appears in the form of Elizabeth Hurley she claims to be able to give him seven wishes in return for his soul.

His problems don't end there though as his first wish to become married to Alison and to be rich and powerful ends up a disastrous mess, but after the initial hiccup will he learn for next time?

So where does it fall down? Well, Fraser and Hurley are fine for the material they're presented with and put the required effort into their roles, despite the fact that I must be the only guy who doesn't find Hurley the hot babe the media portrays her to be. The problem comes that, although it's far from the painful experience I expected, for a comedy it just doesn't make you laugh and in the end the movie proves that you can't change certain parts of the world to your advantage and when it comes to love, the Pet Shop Boys' Love Comes Quickly was right in that love will come "..just when you least expect it, just what you least expect".