Bedazzled is a 2000 fantasy romantic comedy film[3] directed by Harold Ramis and starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley.

It is a remake of the 1967 British film of the same name, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, itself a comic retelling of the Faust legend.

The program settles on Elliot Richards, a sweet, geeky, over-zealous man working a dead-end job in a San Francisco computer company.

The Devil, in the form of a charming and beautiful woman, overhears him and offers to give Elliot seven wishes in exchange for his soul.

Elliot's friendly cellmate tells him that he cannot sell his soul as it belongs to God, and although the Devil may try to confuse him, in the end he will realize who he truly is, and what his purpose is.

[4] In January 1998, Larry Gelbart joined to co-write the script, which, unlike the original film, would feature a female Devil.

Hurley's performance was praised, but her attendance of its premiere was met with backlash from the Screen Actors Guild because it occurred during a strike it was holding.

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.

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 the best parts of the crude and lewd Caddyshack.

"[14] 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.

When its hero sells his soul to the devil, what results isn't diabolical effrontery, but a series of contract negotiations and consumer complaints.

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.