Bedazzling
Rating: 10 of 10 
The devil. A contract. The price, one's soul. Sounds familiar, somehow. Yet that's about it - this movie turns this aged concept into something fresh, new, twisted - both funny and pensive, insightful and with lots of awfully silly scenes of comedic horror, for the portrayal of which Brendan Fraser is a master. His talents lie both in slapstick and serious humor, which is always a good combination, as he was able to demonstrate already in 'The Mummy' and 'Blast from the Past'.
Elizabeth Hurley is a splendid devil, naughty and fiendish, looking terrifyingly gorgeous in every single scene - and also towering the movie with some classy elegance. With a devil figure like her, temptation was never an easier game.
The film, of course, plays by the rules of comedy, basically, but not without a sense of poetic justice and serious cosmological deliberations - it can be gentle as it can be infantile, and it can be utterly pleasing, a bedazzling experience.
February 4th/5th, 2001
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