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Bewitched

2005 Directed by Nora Ephron

Be warned. Be ready.

Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".

Nicole Kidman Will Ferrell Shirley MacLaine Michael Caine Jason Schwartzman Kristin Chenoweth Heather Burns Jim Turner Stephen Colbert David Alan Grier Michael Badalucco Carole Shelley Steve Carell Katie Finneran James Lipton Brittany Krall Alison MacInnis Wendi McLendon-Covey Amy Sedaris Victor Williams

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Popular reviews

Review by whatever ★★★

i wouldnt call this good but it was cute and there was no threat of r*pe or s*xual violence or male violence or anything other than a mildly annoying man and sometimes that's really all i need to like a major motion picture if im being honest which i am. also nicole kidman is insanely beautiful and has some really sweet sweaters and i love her and she's amazing even tho i never noticed her gorgeous lithe flipper hands before the other week and it doesnt matter there's beyond zero chemistry between them i just dont give a shit im so tired of dumb man shit it's nice just to watch some dumb woman shit sometimes
Review by sree ★★★½

"did you have some daniel day-lewis thing happening here?"
Review by jack 2

like this was fun for 20 minutes when it was just miss nicole havin fun and bein A Witch but then w*ll f*rrell had to come and start yelling and make me wanna hit that Die
Review by Travis Lytle ★★½

Wavering between moderately watchable and mildly tedious, Nora Ephron's "Bewitched" boasts a mostly interesting premise but does little of interest with it. A meta-adaptation of the popular golden-age television program, instead of turning the show into a film, the comedy turns the turning of the show into a new TV show into a film. The concept is clever. The execution is not.

Nicole Kidman stars as a witch who is cast as Samantha, the witch, in the television reboot of "Bewitched," a decades-old TV show about witches. Will Ferrell stars as the big-time Hollywood actor is need of a hit who spearheads the new production. The idea behind the narrative, a real witch playing a TV witch, crackles with wit;…
Review by Logan Kenny ★★★

the exact movie i needed on this terrible day. god bless nicole kidman
Review by ZombAid ★

Boring Work, Bad Movie Entry #XVII:
Be....F****ed

Can a comedy be more unfunny?!
And I mean that serious!

A whole cast, just wasted.
Not that I have any high regard for either Nicole nor Will, but what did you have to pay these 'Actors' to play in such a horrible UnComedy?!
Michael, Jason and Steve, what are you doing, you're (mostly) Cool!

Normally I watch this stuff to pass around the time, but the movie kept going on and on and the Worktime seriously stands still.
Maybe that's the Witchcraft of this horrible Movie!

Recent reviews

Review by Melissa Allingham

Nicole Kidman is absolutely adorable in this!
Review by Madelyn Carey ★★½

Contrary to popular belief, this is not a bad movie.
Review by BrodiesFilmkritiken ★★★

Eine Story die auf einer alten, beliebten Fernsehserie fußt, Superkomödiant Will Ferrell und die souveräne Nicole Kidman in den Hauptrollen - kann da irgendwas schief gehen? Eigentlich nicht, aber der Garant für einen guten Film ist es auch nicht. Ich sah den Film mit ein paar gut gelaunten Leuten im Kino und hatte meinen Spaß - allerdings bereits zwei Stunden später auch den Film vergessen. Einige Gags sind wirklich gut und auch die Darsteller sind mit Spaß und Elan dabei - aber man merkt schnell dass hier eine wirklich verbindene Handlung nicht zu finden ist und oberflächlicher Spaß alles ist was erreicht werden soll. Ungewöhnlich nur dass bei so einem Quatsch Stars wie Ferrell, Kidman der Michael Caine zur Verfügung standen. Also: kurzweilige Unterhaltung ist allemal drin - aber keinen Funken mehr.

Fazit: Spaßiger Blödsinn mit gut gelaunten Stars - inhaltlich mau, aber ein paar gute Lacher sind drin.
Review by Taylor Clemons ★★★

THIS MOVIE IS GARBAGE AND I LOVE IT.
Review by spooksmcgee ★

I wish that I was a witch and could snap my fingers to forget about most of the film but then I would miss out on the few hilariously memorable and cheesy quotes as well as Nina's uncanny yet entertaining sadism
Review by James Milstead ★

BEWITCHED (12)
D: Nora Ephron
Columbia (Penny Marshall, Nora Ephron & Douglas Wick)
🇺🇸 2005
102 mins

Comedy/Fantasy

W: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron
DP: John Lindley
Ed: Tia Nolan
Mus: George Fenton
PD: Neil Spisak

Nicole Kidman (Isabel Bigelow / Samantha Stephens), Will Ferrell (Jack Wyatt / Darrin Stephens), Shirley MacLaine (Iris Smythson / Endora), Michael Caine (Nigel Bigelow), Jason Schwartzman (Ritchie), Kristin Chenoweth (Maria Kelly)

Pathetic re-imagination of a 1960's TV show about a man who is married to a witch and doesn't get on too well with his mother in law (also a witch).
Nora Ephron tries to be clever here by having the story about a producer remaking the TV show and unknowingly casting a witch in the…
Review by Sebastián Fernández ★★

Muy sobreactuado, en algunas partes divertido, no hay mucha química entre los protagonistas. Nicole Kidman es muy buena actriz, pero no queda el papel, no la veo como actriz cómica.
Review by londyn ★★★★

uh super cute and I wish I was a witch but that's nothing new
Review by fionat ★

Will Ferrell ruined this for me, as he ruins everything for me and everyone else.