It's one of those movies where you smile and laugh and are reasonably entertained, but you get no sense of a mighty enterprise sweeping you along with its comedic force. There is not a movie here. Just scenes in search of one.Read Full Review »
60
NewsWeek: David Ansen
As long as it stays focused on showbiz, Bewitched is light, frothy fun. But Ephron insists on turning Bewitched into a love story, and that's when the fun starts to seep out of the movie.Read Full Review »
50
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Kidman will have the last laugh; not even Ephron, with her dumb flying house of a movie, can crush her magic.Read Full Review »
50
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The Ephron sisters, sophisticates entrusted with a simple TV situation comedy, lose the magic of the com as they mess with the sit.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Claudia Puig
Bewitched does have a few laughs, thanks to Ferrell's antics. And some of the wittiest contemporary comedians are on board, notably "The Office's" Steve Carell and "The Daily Show's" Stephen Colbert, but they are underused.Read Full Review »
50
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
One thing Kidman is not is a clown. She thinks fizzy and dizzy and klutzy are funny. She is mistaken. To be a clown requires a kind of witchcraft.Read Full Review »
40
The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
The film's screenwriters conjured up a very clever gimmick when they decided to revamp a favorite 60's television show. Too bad they forgot that a gimmick is no substitute for a screenplay, never mind a real movie.Read Full Review »
40
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
Isn't a remake, really. It's a "reimagining," which is a sparkly word for what happens to a beloved TV hit of yesteryear when it's cannibalized by committee.Read Full Review »
40
Slate: David Edelstein
Using R.E.M.'s impassioned "Everybody Hurts"--written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain--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.Read Full Review »
40
Time: Richard Schickel
Bewitched means to be a civilized entertainment, which occasionally it is. But the gentility of this antique sitcom cannot be recaptured at this late date.Read Full Review »
Hotmail
