but her attendance of its premiere was met with backlash from the Screen Actors Guild because it occurred during a strike it was holding. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 115 reviews, with an average of 5.5/10. The site's general consensus states: "Though it has its funny moments, this remake is essentially a one joke movie with too many flat plots, and not a patch on the superior original." On Metacritic the film has a score of 49 out of 100 based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune wrote, disappointedly, that "'Bedazzled' recycled is not the finest hour for Fraser or Hurley—though Fraser, Elliot Richards in this movie, comes closer. It isn't Ramis' finest hour either—though he's one American moviemaker who excels at concept comedies, as he's proved in Groundhog Day and Dave and the best parts of the crude and lewd Caddyshack. Bedazzled, one of the best comic premises ever, should have been duck soup to him." Wilmington's rival, the Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert, commented that "the new movie has been directed by Harold Ramis from a screenplay that uses the 1967 film more as inspiration than source. It is lacking in wickedness. It doesn't smack its lips when it's naughty. When its hero sells his soul to the devil, what results isn't diabolical effrontery, but a series of contract negotiations and consumer complaints. This is twice in two weeks (after the Winona Ryder exorcism movie Lost Souls) that Satan loses on points." The Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan stated that "as written by Larry Gelbart, director Harold Ramis and Peter Tolan, this 'Bedazzled,' though amusing from moment to moment, is erratic, unfocused and uncertain where it's going. And whenever it gets too insecure about itself, the film falls back, in classic the-devil-made-me-do-it Hollywood fashion, on explosions, gunfights, helicopter stunts, car crashes and computer-generated effects. What should be a drawing-room comedy ends with moments best left to Gone in 60 Seconds." References External links 2000 films 2000 fantasy films 2000 romantic comedy films 2000s English-language films 2000s fantasy comedy films 2000s romantic fantasy films 20th Century Fox films American fantasy comedy films American remakes of British films American romantic comedy films American romantic fantasy films The Devil in film Fictional depictions of Abraham Lincoln in film Films about reincarnation Films about wish