SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hunter Lanier At no time did I laugh during "Bedazzled," other than a few abbreviated chuckles; but, regardless, I immensely enjoyed myself. My lack of laughter cannot be blamed on the film, as I rarely laugh during movies--I'm generally unemotive in all areas of life. But "Bedazzled" isn't the kind of comedy one laughs at; it's more the kind that one smiles at and thinks to himself "that's funny." In the beginning, there's Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore), a fry cook who can't quite get the nerve to ask out a waitress, Margaret, whom he's developed a rather large crush on. He's so skittish around her, one doesn't know if he's sweating from nerves or from the stove. After a botched suicide attempt, Moon is visited by the Devil (Peter Cook)--dressed like Dracula from the neck down, and Roger McGuinn from the neck up. Satan offers Moon seven wishes, which Moon burns through attempting to land a reality where he and the waitress are happily ever after.The film is split up into episodes, essentially, each being one of Moon's misguided wishes. Naturally, some are funnier than others. There are two that stand out as being above the rest: one in which Moon wishes to be a pop star--so Margaret will love him, flawless logic-- but is quickly brushed aside for the next big thing, which happens to be a psychedelic, pseudo-intellectual poetry reading. In the other, Moon is not specific enough in his request, yet again, and ends up a female nun who's attained the homosexual affection of Margaret, another nun. Moore and Cook--also the film's two writers--are great in their respective roles and have a innate chemistry. A lot of actors have played the Devil, and in many different ways, but I'm partial to Cook's approach: a calm, flighty sociopath. And a lesser film would have made Moore's apprehensive Moon the butt of joke after joke, but rather, he's played and written with care and consideration--which makes the conclusion to the film work.As funny as the film is, the concept runs out of steam after about an hour and begins repeating itself. Also, the philosophical babble about man, God and Satan wears thin, as the ideas don't go beyond anything you or I have though up in those twilight moments before falling asleep--assuming you're like me and ponder such things aimlessly. A high-concept comedy, "Bedazzled" is charming, sometimes interesting and home to a combination of denser-than-usual humor and nuns bouncing on trampolines. However, it runs its joke into the ground, just managing to resurface slightly before the finish line. God is good, and so is this movie.

Neil Welch Peter Cook and Dudley Moore worked together in a variety of media for a long time. Their double act was extremely successful on stage and TV (and also on long playing record) where the sketch format was used: this format suited them. Their movie work was far less successful, and I suspect that a large part of this was because what worked in sketches was much more difficult to sustain for a whole movie.The first joy of Bedazzled is that, like Monty Python's Holy Grail, it pulls off the trick of hanging a series of sketches in a linking narrative so that the fact that it is, essentially, a feature length sketch show is cleverly disguised.The second joy is that the linking narrative - an updating of Faust, whereby Dudley Moore's loser griddle cook is put through the mincer by Peter Cook's amiable but merciless devil - works perfectly, as do most of the episodes illustrating Moore's wishes.Although this is very much a product of the era in which it was made, it is still a very good film, and repays the time spent in watching it.

Sandcooler I'm not that familiar with the works of these comedians and I'm not going to find out more but this movie's pretty good. It's a funny, silly movie with funny, silly dialogues and a funny, silly plot, though it's pretty dated. There are some jokes that work and then the rest that kind of makes you go "heh". The story is interesting enough though, and I especially like how the wish sequences are kept short and to the point. Main guy asks for something, things go well for two seconds, then he finds out how the devil screwed it up again, lives with it for a while for the hell of it and then back to square one. Then yet another wish with a stupid obvious loophole. Meanwhile the devil causes all kinds of annoying stuff, being called while you're in the bath, working on parking meters, we've all seen mediocre stand-up comedy. It's all very kind comedy, except for some unexpected stabs to politics. They mock religion enough to make the fanatics angry (I mean they DO mention it), but it's all good and harmless. Oh and Raquel Welch is in this looking all good, but she gets so little screen time it should be a crime. I enjoyed the viewing, but it isn't sensationally good.

pocomarc I couldn't believe how bad this lame attempt at religion bashing was.Typical left wing bashing of religion which passes for 'humor' in such sophomoric left wing circles.Spit and sneer at the Bible, nuns, etc etc etc. And that supposed to be hilarious.It wasn't.One of the dullest excuses for humor I had had the bad fortune to waste my time on.The love of Dudley Moore's life was a horsefaced excuse for an actress.The pacing of this lame British 'humor' was deadly and sleep inducing.