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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 9310
Released: April 3, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Stanley (Moore) is a hapless short-order cook who is hopelessly in love with a waitress named Margaret (Eleanor Bron) - although she barely knows he's alive. Enter George Spiggott (Cook), a.k.a. Satan, who grants Stanley seven wishes in order to win Margaret over, but his efforts are hilariously hampered by the Seven Deadly Sins - including the insatiable Lilian Lust (Raquel Welch)!
Description of Bedazzled:
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
Bedazzled Reviews:
A comedy take on the age old story, selling your soul . 
2009-12-19 - to the devil. Bedazzled may be the funniest of them all from the sixties. Dudley Moore is hilariuos as the dullard Stanley, a short order cook. His life is dull & very lonely. Along comes Satan played by Peter Cook. He is slick, well spooken & soon has Stanley in his clutches. He grants Stanley seven wishes for his soul. They even draw up a contract. Stanley wishes revolve around Margaret (Eleanor Bron) the object of all he desires. She is the dishy waitress where Stanley works. Stanley is inarticulate, not very bright & poor. Of course the devil being the devil grants Stanley his wishes, but tricks him at every turn as Stanley burns through his wishes, with laugh out loud adsurdities & sly, social commentary slid in. Ironically Stanley & the devil develope a bond which in a way eases Stanl;ey's lonleiness & makes him a bit more savvy on his own. Out of wishes, he finally gets the love of Margaret though in a way that leaves him rather unhappy & unsatisfied. The devil has an agenda too. He has been trying to get back in God's good graces since he was kicked out of heaven millenium ago. He slips up & Stanley is able to capitalize on it. Things return to as they were but not exactly. The more recent remake with lucious Elizabeth Perkins as the devil is pretty good. But this original from 1967 is funnier. It even has a cameo of Raquel Welch as "Lust". You can't miss that.
Excellent Film!!! I give it a 5 Star Rating! 
2009-11-28 - Saw this movie as a teenage boy shortly after it was released circa 1968 on later nite TV and loved it......Years later in the late 90's it surfaced on VHS and was hard to get........Excellent Movie!!!!! There was never a need to remake this film just like the Thomas Crown Affair....Both remakes don't cut it......So happy to see it on DVD...Make it a part of your movie collection just in case TMC and AMC disappear (the only places you're likely to see it) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (the UK's Abbott and Costello) provide intellectual humor....and Raquel Welsch is somk'in hot in this film as "Lillian Lust The babe with the bust" I promise you won't be dissappointed.......
Thank you!
2009-08-22 - Thank you for making the original Cook/Moore "Bedazzled" available in DVD. I watched this movie for the first time in a small town South Carolina drive-in when I was sixteen years old. I had never seen anything like it! This was filmed over forty years ago and I've still never seen anything like it. "Bedazzled" earns shelf-space with a handful of other keepers.
Best
2009-05-05 - I've seen this film innumerable times and own the DVD. The repartee between Dudley Moore and Peter Cook is brilliant. It seems that every life scenario is represented in one of the seven wishes. My all-time favorite film.
OK 
2009-04-06 - Great Price!! It's also very Funny and Hillarious!! Can't stop laughing everytime I see it. Overall in my opinion, the later version of Bedazzled with Hartley and Fraser is funnier.
