Bewitched is a new summer comedy starring Will Farrell and Nicole Kidman, about remaking the original TV series. It’s a satisfactory comic premise, but apparently the film goes horribly wrong. Here’s a list of nasty quotes. Here’s one of my favourites from that list, and a couple of others I found:
“Unrivalled in modern times for smugness, vapidity, and condescension. To spend even 10 minutes in the movie’s universe is to experience the Sartrean nausea of an utterly hollow head and heart.” — Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
“Given a better film, Kidman’s performance would be getting raves for its deceptive simplicity. Instead, she’s stuck in this pomo movie about the making of a TV-show remake. It’s Being John Malkovich for Morons.” — Ken Tucker, New York Metro
“Using R.E.M.’s impassioned “Everybody Hurts”–conceived as a plea for teenagers not to kill themselves–to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime. The Ephrons should be fined and forced to do a few hundred hours of community service.” — David Edelstein, Slate
It’s currently scoring a lowly 34 on Metacritic, tying it with that other cinematic gem, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
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