Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/03/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Falling somewhere between the
Beyond the Fringe school and the
Monty Python league,
Bedazzled is an irreverent
Faust take-off, written by and starring
Peter Cook and
Dudley Moore (
Moore also composed the music).
Moore plays a short-order cook at a London Wimpyburger restaurant, who falls hopelessly in love with waitress
Eleanor Bron. About to commit suicide, the broken-hearted
Moore is approached by
Satan (
Peter Cook). The Fallen Angel offers to purchase
Moore's soul in exchange for seven wishes--the first of which is squandered when
Satan buys
Moore an ice cream bar (something over which the two stars quarrel throughout the film). Enticed by living personifications of the Deadly Sins--
Raquel Welch, wearing next to nothing, is "Lillian Lust"--
Moore allows
Satan to grant him his heart's desire, utilizing the magic words, "
Julie Andrews!" But with each wish,
Satan, being
Satan, can't help but gum up the works with a double-cross. The desperate
Moore ultimately wishes to be allowed to spend the rest of his life with Eleanor in an environment with no other men--whereupon
Satan transforms both Eleanor and
Moore into nuns! Finally
Satan has a change of heart, allowing
Moore and Eleanor to fall in love in more orthodox surroundings and permitting
Moore to regain his soul.
Satan hopes that God will appreciate this good deed and allow him to re-enter Heaven. But
God doesn't buy this; He's satisfied with
Satan remaining mankind's "necessary evil".
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
