reviewed by Brian "The Naked Gun" Felts
& Benn "Where's the Humanity?" Farrell
So the movie is about TV producers who are re-starting the Bewitched TV series and cast a has been movie
actor Jack Wyatt, played by Will Ferrell (Kicking & Screaming) and an unknown woman Isabelle Bigelow, played
by Nicole Kidman (The Interpreter,) to play Samantha. Of course, Isabelle is an actual witch and she falls
for Jack who doesn't know and then she finds out that she was lied too by Jack and she gets mad casts a spell
and then rewinds it and ………..CRAP!!!!!
The story and the writing there in was terrible. The plot didn't go anywhere. We were thrown into a
situation that was unbelievable, the premise that a witch is trying to find true love, and it never developed.
There were sub-plots that were barely started and never finished or finished poorly. I can't believe Nora
Ephron wrote this steamer. There was two minutes where I laughed, a little, where Samantha had put a spell
on Darren and Will Farrell was allowed to improvise and come up with funny ways to say he wants his dog.
Unfortunately, if you have seen the previews then you have seen parts of it and so it wasn't as good as
it could have been. That's it though, the rest sucked a**.
This is the second movie that Nicole Kidman was miscast in this summer. Does she need Tom Cruise to
tell her what a good movie is and what is a bad movie? First, The Interpreter, then this one, and oh
by the way, she was in Mr. and Mrs. Smith before she dropped out. However, since I have mentioned a
Drama, Comedy, and an Action picture and she doesn't fit in any of them, where does she go?
I love Will Farrell, but he could do nothing with this script and therefore sucked. Since I like him
as an actor, I will leave it at that.
If there is Hollywood justice, this will be the last 60's TV movie remake we will see. This movie
experience could not have been more painful if I was getting a root canal, having my toenails ripped
out, and have alcohol rubbed into my eyes while a cat uses my penis as a scratching post. Avoid this
movie at all costs, one of the worst ones made in five years at least.
Brian - the Naked Gun The storyline with Isabel's TV mother, played by Academy Award® winner Shirley McLaine (Guarding Tess), must have been magic, cause it vanished into thin air. The visiting of the actual aunt and uncle from the original TV show, played by modern comedic actors like Steve Carell (Anchorman), completely confused me. Where they figments of Isabel and Jack imagination, or could other people see these apparitions as well? In the scene with Isabel and the aunt, Isabel's two friends are with them. DO THEY SEE HER? How would they see her if she's a figment of Isabel's obsession with the original TV show, and its correlation in her own life. The whole idea was confusing. In fact, the whole idea for the picture was confusing. Our friend and fellow producer Scott Bechberger suggested, if they at least made this movie about the show, and NOT a movie about them remaking the show, than at least critics like Brian and I could say, "Well, at least it was just like the original TV show. Very cheesy and wrapped up easily." However, with the way Ephron did this, I cannot find a single worth in it. Ephron, her sister and producer Penny Marshal must have gotten liquored up and passed the needle around to come up with this stupid-a** concept. The other thing I hated, as Brian pointed out, was how Isabel had the power to rewind existence and correct her mistakes. A character like hers is going to make bad mistakes, and she must LEARN from them. It's what makes us interested in what happens to the character. Since she had the power to supernaturally correct everything she did wrong in her life, I said "F**k her!" And didn't care what happen to her or her male counter part. The last time I saw a character turn back time to correct a really bad mistake was in the first Superman movie with the late great Christopher Reeves. And THAT Superman movie is my least favorite, FOR THAT EXACT REASON. That even includes the horrible one with Richard Pryor. Overall, if you're going to "Bewitched" willingly, you must be a glutton for punishment. This movie made me feel so "had," it felt like I was bent over the sofa for two hours by a blind date. It couldn't have been more painful if it came with a free acid bath. We need to arm our military operations in Iraq with copies of this movie to show the insurgents. We'll make them surrender in no time. Benn - Where's the Humanity?
In future film classes when a student asks, "How do you not make a movie?" the professor will quickly
grab the DVD movie of Bewitched and show the class how a horrible movie is made. Will Farrell couldn't
even save this movie that was so poor you watch it and think that this movie was done by high school kids,
but actually it was written and directed by Nora Ephron of You've Got Mail and Sleepy in Seattle. What
was she doing? This is easily the worst movie of the year.