| Bedazzled | 
 enlarge | Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Alba
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 7881
Format: Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 104
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: FOXD2242535D
UPC: 024543425359
EAN: 0024543425359
ASIN: B000MQ54M6
Theatrical Release Date: December 10, 1967
Release Date: April 3, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/03/2007
Amazon.com essential video
When the Devil (Peter Cook) offers suicidal short-order cook Stanley (Dudley Moore) seven wishes, Stanley easily surrenders his soul. All of his wishes are granted, to the letter. Unfortunately, as each wish comes to life, the Devil--cheeky sod!--manages to slip some unexpected problem into the mix, ruining everything in a deliciously funny way. Bedazzled was made long before 10 and Arthur made Dudley Moore an unlikely movie star. It's a much purer expression of the off-kilter British humor that Moore and his writing partner Cook pioneered, humor that would lead to Monty Python's Flying Circus and other absurdist goofballs. Moore is charming enough, but what really makes Bedazzled work is Cook, who combines upper-class arrogance with a cheerful, even casual lunacy. Though he played character roles in movies like The Princess Bride and Black Beauty, he was never able to parlay his sneaky sense of humor into starring roles. Bedazzled is his outstanding triumph. Not only does the movie offer some sly commentary on Christian morality, it has a cameo with Raquel Welch as the embodiment of Lust. A classic. --Bret Fetzer
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 Great Movie September 29, 2008
This movie was as funny today as 30 years ago. Pete and Dud's comedy is brilliant and stands the test of time.
I AM SO HAPPY THIS IS OUT ON DVD September 6, 2008
Love this movie - not a Dudley Moore Fan, have never seen anything else by Peter Cook, find this movie absolutely brilliant in so many subtle and hilarious ways. I liked the remake, but something about the original just kills me every time I watch it. Watch it, you'll either love it or hate it...
;o)
 The First Three Letters of His Name=DUD. August 7, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Thank you Harold Ramis. Thank you for making a version of Bedazzled that was actually funny! I never want to hear anybody degrade the Liz Hurley/Brendan Fraser Bedazzled ever again. I could not stop laughing at the 2000 version. The Dudley Moore/Peter Cook version, however, is a showcase in cynical British dullness. I can appreciate the original source, but this movie was not funny or interesting. And I think people hate the newer Bedazzled on principle. They hate it simply because it's a copy.
1.I don't like to speak ill of the deceased (actually I do) but, throughout Dudley Moore's career, he was a hit or miss comedian. He underplays too many of his scenes and lines in Bedazzled. He didn't have the comedic chops to carry his role.
2.His object of affection is uninteresting and unattractive.
3.Many of the wish episodes are dry and poorly done. There wasn't any oomph to many of the wishes or their scenes. Even though I had not seen this film before, there were moments when I still got up and did something else because I simply did not care what was going to happen next. It was that dry. And the fly scene seemed especially ridiculous.
4.Peter Cook was enjoyable to watch and he made up the bulk of scenes and lines I did like, but even he could not save the entire film.
5.Dudley Moore's character comes back to reality by blowing a raspberry? "Pffft!" Okay. For all the humor that was worth, he might as well have just said "send me back to reality."
6.I really liked the idea of the 7 Deadly Sins personified, but they were mostly wasted.
Bottom Line: I wouldn't' mind watching this again just to see Peter Cook, but I'm so glad I didn't buy this like I started to. I think we should all be suspicious of any film or album that has an average 5-star rating. It's almost always just fanboys and fangirls writing their personal worship. Of course, all reviews are subjective--that's a given--but, that's why dissent is so important. Fans will not tell you about the flaws. Dissenters will. You get a balance of the good and bad that gives you a much more realistic picture of what you're dealing with. This film is overrated. Watch the newer Bedazzled; drink a Brandy Alexander; and laugh.
BeDazzled May 26, 2008
Well what a good idea it was to purchase the late-at-night gem! I have only seen this late at night on free-to-air before and somehow can't watch it in broad daylight. Cheeky Peter Cook is great as the disinterested Devil and Dudley Moore falls for the twist every time. A great bit of comedy beofre the likes of Monty Python took over this type of comedy.
If Flannery O'Connor were Anglican . . . May 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Given my expectations of a wild satire, I found this a strange movie that has at its thematic heart not the image of Dudley Moore in nun-drag hopping on a trampoline (a fabulous scene as it is), but Peter Cook's anti-modernist monologue toward the end, in which his Mephistopheles promises to advance the spread of soul-less scourges like "supersonic music" (uh, that's rock'n'roll he's dismissing, kids). Don't mistake this for irony like Adam West's "Batman"--Peter Cook's ethos is finally somewhat chilly. I realize I am in a minority of viewers here, but I see the film blending Cook's upper-crust aesthetics with a fairly standard if charmingly disguised Christian morality--but the satire is too glibly judgmental, as in its mockery of rock'n'roll, and in its moderately surprising queasiness about sex (do not be fooled by the image of Welch on the DVD box). Cook, who wrote the script, has his nose raised at all sorts of things one might expect him to have more fun with. Still, some scenes in this are painfully funny, and leave the gravity of most convention, especially when Moore is transformed into a pretentious seducer, a cross between Alastair Cook and Tom Jones, and the Hullabaloo send-up in which Cook plays a dour, narcissist pop star who seems to anticipate Prince c. 1989, without the sex. And the nuns-on-trampoline scene (the only thing in the film that resembles Monty Python) is grade A bizarre. But the recent interview with co-star Barry Humphries (in the bonus section) shows his memory to be spot on, as he recalls that Peter Cook is a beautiful fellow and in some ways a neat wit, but not much of an actor (one can love Cook for his mind and still note that Dudley Moore has to put nearly every scene in this movie on his back and heft it about), and that Cook, while he looked the type of the 60s dandy from a certain distance, is finally a pretty conservative guy--for certain he is in the details of this film.
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