Thursday, June 30, 2005

Yesterday, I saw Bewitched with my friends Dave Faber and Lindsay Grooms. We all unanimously agreed it was painful. The main problem with the film is that its simply not funny. The actors try so hard to get laughs that they fail to realize how annoying they are. Nicole Kidman acts ditzy, Will Ferrell mugs for the camera, and every one else is just there for the sake of filling out a supporting cast. In the film, Nicole Kidman stars as a real life witch, who through a set of contrivances has been cast to be in a remake of the show Bewitched. Will Ferrell plays a self absorbed, washed up actor that gets cast to play Darren in the remake. He is flat out annoying and rude to every one on the set, yet for some odd reason Kidman falls in love with him. There's no logic to this romance, it seems to happen out of necessity, so audiences can laugh at all the film's supposedly hilarious hijinks. The only funny sequence in the film happens thirty seconds before the end credits, in it a nosey neighbor is spying on Kidman and Ferrell. She urges her husband, Abner to come to the window and look. He ignores her and reads his paper. Then a tree magical grows out of Kidman's lawn, the lady shouts,"ABNER, ABNER," flails her arms, and faints. This was the only silver lining in an otherwise tortorous film going experience. Magical movie memories my ass!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thanks to your comment about the film (Bewitched... of course) i won't waist any money in watching it! ;)