I saw Bewitched over the weekend and again last night with Berta, and apart from it being a cute and entertaining movie, I have one other significant thing to say about it:
Tom Cruise is insane -- Nicole Kidman is a hottie with brains and actual acting ability.
Katie Holmes may be cute and mousey and part of that WB-generation, but I have yet to see her do anythng that's significant acting-wise.
Nicole's got chops. She's 37 and could easily play early-twenties. She can act. Maybe her Batman movie wasn't the greatest, but she has been in a few good movies. I mean, Katie Holmes never won (and will never win) an Oscar.
What a doofus.
Doofus doesn't even begin to describe the idiocy of Mr. Cruise.
Nicole Kidman....sigh.
Sigh.
SIGH.
So is the movie any good?
When I first saw the previews, I couldn't get over how much Kidman really looked like Elizabeth Montgomery.
I think using celebrity as a way to propel your ideas can be good or bad. I'm sure there are a lot of people who benefit from Scientology and it's beliefs (no matter how grounded in science they actually are or what I think of them personally) so I won't judge Cruise for his recent beratement by the media. But...
Leaving Nicole Kidman for Katie Holmes? Daft bastard.
Is Bewitched any good? Well, it's not Oscar-worthy, but it's a fun night at the theater. If you're just looking for a light and fun experience, you could do much worse.
Bewitched is a refreshing break from the raunchy spawn of Something About Mary, and even though I usually find movies with Saturday Night Live actors distasteful, Will Ferrell delivers a comedic performance without going over that edge that leaves me whining, "Why, oh, why didn't I learn from A Night at the Roxbury??"
Some things are a little much. Jason Schwartzman, who plays Jack's agent in the movie could have taken it down a notch. And the scene where Isabel demonstrates her nose-twitching abilities to the growing staff was too too SNL.
Kristin Chenoweth, the twangy publicist from West Wing, is likeable as Isabel's nebby neighbor. Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine play well against each other in a tidy little subplot with a twist. The plot itself is a star, too - a "remake" idea isn't original, but a movie about a remake where the actress who plays the witch is actually a witch, well, that's cool. And they work it well.
The ending - eh. I'm not sure where Uncle Arthur comes from, but I have hope that the outtakes on the DVD fill in a few missing details there.
So, yeah. It's a good comedy. If you want to go out to the movies, and there isn't a must-see watercooler-movie playing (ie. Batman, War of the Worlds, or the upcoming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) this is a pretty entertaining flick.
Aaak, I can barely look at Nicole Kidman any more, since she got botoxed or whatever it was to make her eyebrows look like the "evil" eyebrows.
And, gawd, does that woman have a forehead.
Some of her roles seemed to involve acting, but I can't bring myself to go see Bewitched (as if it wasn't bad enough the first time around as a TV show that I watched as a kid).