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Movie ID: 1154
RT slug: bewitched
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bewitched
Release year: 2005
Runtime: 102 mins
Wide release date: 2005-06-24
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2012-04-16
Tomatometer final: 23%
Audience score final: 28%
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Directors: Nora Ephron
Writers: Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron
Producers: Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Nora Ephron, Penny Marshall
MPAA rating: PG-13
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-13 11:19:25
Updated: 2026-08-13 11:19:25
Movie star Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) has hit a rough patch in his career. Looking to make a comeback, he signs on to play the role of Darrin in a movie version of the popular 1960s sitcom "Bewitched." Jack insists that an unknown is hired to play Darrin's better half, the beguiling witch-housewife Samantha, so the studio finds an up-and-comer named Isabel Bigelow (Nicole Kidman). Once shooting begins, though, Jack learns that Isabel was cast too well -- since she actually is a witch.
Bewitched is haunted by scattered laughs and a lack of direction.
Canonical reviews: 185
Canonical fresh: 43
Canonical rotten: 142
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 23%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-13 11:10:34
Snapshot Tomatometer: 23%
Snapshot review count: 185
Snapshot fresh count: 43
Snapshot rotten count: 142
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2730 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
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| Sony Pictures Entertainment | distributor |
| Columbia Pictures | production |
| Red Wagon Productions | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicole Kidman | Isabel Bigelow |
| 2 | Will Ferrell | Jack Wyatt |
| 3 | Shirley MacLaine | Iris Smythson |
| 4 | Michael Caine | Nigel Bigelow |
| 5 | Jason Schwartzman | Ritchie |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 241595 | Steven Lindsey | Texas Triangle/TXT | Rotten | 0.5/4 | 2023-05-08T00:09:50.000Z | 2023-05-08 00:09:50 | There are possibly two genuine laughs in the entire movie. |
| 241596 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-01-31T22:53:19.000Z | 2021-01-31 22:53:19 | An uneasy mixture of special effects movie and romantic comedy without ever really committing to either one. |
| 241597 | Debbie Lynn Elias | Behind The Lens | Fresh | — | 2019-11-06T22:14:57.000Z | 2019-11-06 22:14:57 | From the twitch of Nicole's nose to the comedically appropriate soundtrack ... there is a nostalgic magic that is, let's face it - simply bewitching! Witches Honor! |
| 241598 | Kaleem Aftab | The List | Rotten | 2/5 | 2019-04-25T20:53:30.000Z | 2019-04-25 20:53:30 | The concept may be enchanting, but the execution is not. The characters are such a ridiculous pastiche on the original show that they're bland and one-dimensional. |
| 241599 | Bruce Bennett | Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Fresh | B | 2013-12-29T19:39:32.000Z | 2013-12-29 19:39:32 | A minor comeback for Nora Ephron...Ferrell and Kidman make the most of the formulaic plot... |
| 241600 | Joshua Starnes | ComingSoon.net | Fresh | 7/10 | 2011-01-07T14:07:54.000Z | 2011-01-07 14:07:54 | The set-up for the story requires the audience be aware they are actually watching a remake of Bewitched at all times. It gets points for being an interesting and different idea for a television remake, but the metatextuality can be off-putting. |
| 241601 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Rotten | — | 2009-04-29T03:16:22.000Z | 2009-04-29 03:16:22 | A stupid pompous waste of money and talent... |
| 241602 | Cole Smithey | ColeSmithey.com | Rotten | C- | 2009-04-15T22:44:20.000Z | 2009-04-15 22:44:20 | With "Bewitched," Nicole Kidman's career slips down yet another rung after her recent cinematic mishaps with "The Stepford Wives" and "Birth." |
| 241603 | Leslie Felperin | Film4 | Rotten | — | 2008-05-18T08:33:43.000Z | 2008-05-18 08:33:43 | There may be special effects aplenty here, but precious little magic. |
| 241604 | David Ansen | Newsweek | Rotten | — | 2007-11-05T03:15:49.000Z | 2007-11-05 03:15:49 | By the tepid ending, the movie appears to have been sedated. |
| 241605 | Joe Lozito | Big Picture Big Sound | Fresh | 3/4 | 2007-07-14T06:24:12.000Z | 2007-07-14 06:24:12 | The Ephrons have an easy way with the romantic-comedy genre. |
| 241606 | Kam Williams | Princeton Town Topics | Fresh | 3/4 | 2007-06-27T19:32:11.000Z | 2007-06-27 19:32:11 | Has some hilarious moments, mostly thanks to Will Ferrell's zany slapstick, mugging, and other antics. |
| 241607 | Shirley Sealy | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2007-03-01T03:55:45.000Z | 2007-03-01 03:55:45 | As good as some of the gags are, however, they might have fallen flat if performed by lesser talents. |
| 241608 | Garth Franklin | Dark Horizons | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-10-30T03:19:50.000Z | 2006-10-30 03:19:50 | Had it stuck to the ground rules it laid out early on, it would've made sense. |
| 241609 | Joseph Proimakis | Movies for the Masses | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2006-10-03T09:38:21.000Z | 2006-10-03 09:38:21 | full review in Greek |
| 241610 | Ben Walters | Time Out | Rotten | — | 2006-06-24T04:28:35.000Z | 2006-06-24 04:28:35 | Despite the intriguing set-up, formula proves as hard a habit for Ephron to kick as magic is for Isabel. |
| 241611 | Ken Tucker | New York Magazine/Vulture | Rotten | — | 2006-05-12T03:16:07.000Z | 2006-05-12 03:16:07 | What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career? |
| 241612 | Jorge Avila Andrade | Moviola | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2005-11-25T22:09:25.000Z | 2005-11-25 22:09:25 | Es una lástima que las hermanas Ephron no hayan podido aterrizar una idea que sonaba interesante en un principio pero que, finalmente, es víctima de sus propios malos hechizos |
| 241613 | Martin Scribbs | Low IQ Canadian | Rotten | — | 2005-11-19T17:32:02.000Z | 2005-11-19 17:32:02 | I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies. |
| 241614 | Wesley Lovell | Cinema Sight | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-11-11T07:40:24.000Z | 2005-11-11 07:40:24 | Blame Will Farrell and the director who let him run amok for the failure of this film. |
| 241615 | Nathan Rabin | AV Club | Rotten | — | 2005-09-26T03:15:44.000Z | 2005-09-26 03:15:44 | If it lost every bad idea, miscast actor, wasted performance, and botched scene, nothing would be left but the end credits. |
| 241616 | Matthew Turner | ViewLondon | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-08-20T03:24:24.000Z | 2005-08-20 03:24:24 | One of those films where if you've seen the trailer then you've seen all the jokes. |
| 241618 | Simon Braund | Empire Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-08-19T03:15:49.000Z | 2005-08-19 03:15:49 | A disappointing treatment of fabulous source material. |
| 241617 | David Edwards | Daily Mirror (UK) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-08-19T03:15:49.000Z | 2005-08-19 03:15:49 | Don't, whatever you do, expect to Be-entertained by this feeble rom-com. |
| 241619 | Stella Papamichael | BBC.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-08-09T03:22:24.000Z | 2005-08-09 03:22:24 | You will leave the cinema utterly disenchanted. |
| 241620 | Kurt Loder | MTV | Fresh | 3/4 | 2005-08-02T09:12:20.000Z | 2005-08-02 09:12:20 | It's a nice ride ... There's nothing subversive or edgy about it ... But it's an agreeable piece of Hollywood product. |
| 241621 | Jeffrey Bruner | Des Moines Register | Fresh | 3/5 | 2005-07-26T11:49:37.000Z | 2005-07-26 11:49:37 | Bewitched doesn't cast a spell over audiences but stars Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell have enough magic between them to create something simple and fun. |
| 241622 | Michael Dequina | TheMovieReport.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-07-18T12:44:43.000Z | 2005-07-18 12:44:43 | Ephron takes a perfectly workable, big-screen ready concept and renders it needlessly complicated and barely recognizable. |
| 241623 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-07-18T03:25:18.000Z | 2005-07-18 03:25:18 | starts promisingly, with an ingenious premise, an engaging cast and a bouncy tone ... then turns into an especially slushy Ephron rom-com |
| 241624 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2005-07-16T03:24:05.000Z | 2005-07-16 03:24:05 | — |
| 241625 | Mark Sells | Oregon Herald | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2005-07-14T17:51:42.000Z | 2005-07-14 17:51:42 | Lacks cohesion and chemistry, essential ingredients to the original's success. |
| 241626 | Karina Montgomery | Cinerina | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2005-07-09T21:57:22.000Z | 2005-07-09 21:57:22 | The trailer gave away what this movie needed to give us lots of: surprises. Sweet, funny, amusing, but never gels. |
| 241627 | Joe Williams | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-07-07T17:42:10.000Z | 2005-07-07 17:42:10 | The rabbit that's pulled out of the hat is lifeless. |
| 241628 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Rotten | — | 2005-07-07T12:29:37.000Z | 2005-07-07 12:29:37 | "Bewitched" was not so beguiling --- what a shame! |
| 241629 | David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Rotten | — | 2005-07-07T12:27:36.000Z | 2005-07-07 12:27:36 | The best way to describe this attempted "revival" of the popular TV series? How about bland, boring and bothersome? |
| 241630 | Lori Hoffman | Atlantic City Weekly | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-07-06T09:15:52.000Z | 2005-07-06 09:15:52 | ...it is the ineffective writing that wrings all the magic out of a concept that should have produced at least a mildly pleasing summer comedy. |
| 241631 | Mark Palermo | The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | Rotten | — | 2005-07-06T06:11:41.000Z | 2005-07-06 06:11:41 | Bewitched becomes a love story about the unknowingly self-consumed - Idiots in Love. Even the sappiest viewers will have a hard time rooting for them. |
| 241635 | Kimberley Jones | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-07-05T18:44:14.000Z | 2005-07-05 18:44:14 | Ferrell, in need of a shorter leash, never makes the character any more than a caricature, and Kidman, in a rare comedic role, suffers, too. |
| 241634 | Unknown Critic | Bullz-Eye.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-07-05T18:44:14.000Z | 2005-07-05 18:44:14 | — |
| 241633 | Emily Blunt | Blunt Review | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-07-05T18:44:14.000Z | 2005-07-05 18:44:14 | I blame wine-goggles for this mess. And the director is one of our greatest. What was she thinking? |
| 241632 | Susan Tavernetti | Palo Alto Weekly | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-07-05T18:44:14.000Z | 2005-07-05 18:44:14 | This comedy might make you smile but won't leave you spellbound. |
| 241636 | Caffeinated Clint | Moviehole | Fresh | 3/5 | 2005-07-04T20:08:28.000Z | 2005-07-04 20:08:28 | Kidman is absolutely divine. Ferrell is his usual pleasantly goofy self. A Funky Contrast. |
| 241637 | Nicolas Lacroix | EnPrimeur.ca | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2005-07-04T11:31:55.000Z | 2005-07-04 11:31:55 | Le film ne génère absolument rien chez le spectateur, même pas l'amusement le plus primaire. |
| 241638 | Thomas Delapa | Boulder Weekly | Rotten | — | 2005-07-01T16:18:00.000Z | 2005-07-01 16:18:00 | Despite the modernist incantation, the Ephrons' boob-tube spoof feels like they've channeled a dusty rerun. |
| 241639 | Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi | Broomfield Enterprise | Fresh | — | 2005-07-01T13:05:58.000Z | 2005-07-01 13:05:58 | As a light-hearted, silly movie that didn't try to be anything else, it was funny enough. |
| 241640 | John Wirt | Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | Rotten | — | 2005-07-01T09:33:17.000Z | 2005-07-01 09:33:17 | The movie has more wit than the usual summer fluff, but it's also a forgettable confection that squanders the surprising potential it finds. |
| 241641 | Matt Brunson | Creative Loafing | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-30T13:08:51.000Z | 2005-06-30 13:08:51 | As far as ill-advised Nicole Kidman vehicles... are concerned, the nicest thing one can say about Bewitched is that it's an improvement over The Stepford Wives. |
| 241642 | Randy Shulman | Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2005-06-30T06:08:25.000Z | 2005-06-30 06:08:25 | The biggest letdown is Shirley MacLaine as...the magical, meddling Endora.... She doesn't just phone it in, she refuses to pick up the receiver. |
| 241643 | Richard Schickel | TIME Magazine | Rotten | — | 2005-06-29T12:01:58.000Z | 2005-06-29 12:01:58 | What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver. |
| 241644 | Steve Schneider | Orlando Weekly | Rotten | — | 2005-06-29T11:58:35.000Z | 2005-06-29 11:58:35 | The only elements that really work are the supporting cast's spot-on imitations of Bewitched series vets like Paul Lynde and Marion Lorne. |
| 241645 | Lisa Schwarzbaum | Entertainment Weekly | Rotten | C | 2005-06-29T11:54:29.000Z | 2005-06-29 11:54:29 | The Ephron sisters, sophisticates entrusted with a simple TV situation comedy, lose the magic of the com as they mess with the sit. |
| 241646 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2005-06-29T10:19:02.000Z | 2005-06-29 10:19:02 | It's so lightweight that the wind from a passing broomstick would collapse its foundations. |
| 241647 | David Frese | Kansas City Star | Rotten | 1/4 | 2005-06-28T13:46:23.000Z | 2005-06-28 13:46:23 | Instead of smart commentary on the state of entertainment, we're given a mundane, risk-averse romantic comedy. |
| 241648 | Susan Granger | Modamag.com | Rotten | 6/10 | 2005-06-28T13:40:40.000Z | 2005-06-28 13:40:40 | A cute comedic performance by Nicole Kidman which outclasses the movie. |
| 241649 | Linda Cook | KWQC-TV (Iowa) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-27T21:12:44.000Z | 2005-06-27 21:12:44 | Mesmerizing, it's not. |
| 241650 | Richard Roeper | Ebert & Roeper | Rotten | — | 2005-06-27T17:03:19.000Z | 2005-06-27 17:03:19 | In the original TV series, Elizabeth Montgomery had this kind of sexy, subversive personality. Here we just have this naïve person who just flits about. |
| 241651 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Fresh | 3/4 | 2005-06-27T14:39:43.000Z | 2005-06-27 14:39:43 | Bewitched has more giggles than belly laughs, but it's not the same-old same old, and the massive appeal of Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman is undeniable. |
| 241652 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Fresh | 7/10 | 2005-06-27T13:24:46.000Z | 2005-06-27 13:24:46 | Nicole Kidman can twitch her nose at me any time she wants. |
| 241653 | Christopher Smith | Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Rotten | D | 2005-06-27T12:27:09.000Z | 2005-06-27 12:27:09 | Going into "Bewitched," you at least expect a reasonably entertaining twist on the popular '60s television show. What you get instead is George Romero's "Land of the Dead." |
| 241654 | Kit Bowen | Hollywood.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-27T11:01:42.000Z | 2005-06-27 11:01:42 | Watching Nicole Kidman fly around on a broom is one thing, but if you're looking for a little renewed magic, Bewitched unfortunately isn't it. |
| 241655 | Larry Ratliff | San Antonio Express-News | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-27T10:03:44.000Z | 2005-06-27 10:03:44 | Bewitched makes last year's Kidman vehicle The Stepford Wives seem almost substantial. It was not. |
| 241656 | Kevin Carr | 7M Pictures | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-06-27T09:53:47.000Z | 2005-06-27 09:53:47 | With such little chemistry between the characters, I'm surprised this film was actually completed. |
| 241657 | Jonathan R. Perry | Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2005-06-26T16:29:34.000Z | 2005-06-26 16:29:34 | If a studio absolutely cannot avoid raiding its vaults for a popular TV show to pillage for an extra $1.98 decades later, this is the way to do it. |
| 241658 | Boo Allen | Denton Record-Chronicle | Rotten | — | 2005-06-26T14:00:18.000Z | 2005-06-26 14:00:18 | Director Nora Ephron takes an imaginative idea and turns it into a flat, skill-less dud. |
| 241659 | Harvey S. Karten | Compuserve | Rotten | C | 2005-06-26T13:46:04.000Z | 2005-06-26 13:46:04 | Too fluffy even for TV with a miscast Will Ferrell doing his best to keep the uneven pace moving. |
| 241660 | Greg Maki | Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-26T10:01:15.000Z | 2005-06-26 10:01:15 | Ephron is so attached to formula that she is unable to put someone's creative thinking to good use. |
| 241661 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-06-26T09:17:32.000Z | 2005-06-26 09:17:32 | ...progresses into a meandering midsection that contains exceedingly little in the way of forward momentum... |
| 241662 | Brian Orndorf | FilmJerk.com | Rotten | C | 2005-06-25T23:04:15.000Z | 2005-06-25 23:04:15 | Bewitched is a poorly executed mess that no wiggle of the nose can save. |
| 241665 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-25T03:25:40.000Z | 2005-06-25 03:25:40 | The movie is predictably pedestrian; a shallow and spineless comedy with all the charm of leftover goat cheese left to fester unwrapped on the bakery counter. |
| 241664 | Christy Lemire | Journal News (Westchester, NY) | Rotten | D+ | 2005-06-25T03:25:40.000Z | 2005-06-25 03:25:40 | — |
| 241663 | Eric Lurio | Entertainment Insiders | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-06-25T03:25:40.000Z | 2005-06-25 03:25:40 | This is about the most uneven movie of the year. |
| 241666 | Andy Klein | Los Angeles CityBeat | Rotten | — | 2005-06-24T17:07:00.000Z | 2005-06-24 17:07:00 | ...simply off in [its] pacing and inadequately funny. |
| 241667 | Stephanie Zacharek | Salon.com | Rotten | — | 2005-06-24T16:53:20.000Z | 2005-06-24 16:53:20 | The artificiality of Bewitched is so exaggerated that it almost works in the movie's favor for the first 20 minutes or so, before that heavy synthetic Ephron odor really sets in. |
| 241668 | Ty Burr | Boston Globe | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-06-24T14:53:46.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:53:46 | A phony and cynical look at how Hollywood might make or remake a television show. |
| 241669 | Carla Meyer | Sacramento Bee | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2005-06-24T14:46:04.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:46:04 | Kidman doesn't compete with Montgomery's memory because she doesn't need to. She has crafted her own memorably witchy woman. |
| 241670 | Jack Garner | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Rotten | 5/10 | 2005-06-24T14:41:26.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:41:26 | The '60s TV sitcom Bewitched was never as good as the woman who played Samantha the witch - the late actress Elizabeth Montgomery. Ditto the new Bewitched, an only mildly entertaining sitcom enlivened by Nicole Kidman. |
| 241671 | Mick LaSalle | San Francisco Chronicle | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2005-06-24T14:32:37.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:32:37 | Screenwriters Ephron and her sister Delia are able to get laughs and make character points even in the moments of laying out a fairly involved exposition, and that's no small thing. That's skilled craftsmanship. |
| 241672 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Rotten | C | 2005-06-24T14:30:52.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:30:52 | The remake of a TV show should have come with canned laughter because after awhile it was hard to tell that this was supposed to be a comedy. |
| 241673 | Moira MacDonald | Seattle Times | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-24T14:27:32.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:27:32 | Ephron seems unsure as to whether she's filming a zany retro comedy or a conventional romance, and the film zips back and forth between genres, never really settling. |
| 241674 | Gary Thompson | Philadelphia Daily News | Rotten | — | 2005-06-24T14:24:00.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:24:00 | Ephron piles one scenario on top of another, but is less adept than Kaufman at keeping them sorted. |
| 241675 | Shawn Levy | Oregonian | Rotten | D+ | 2005-06-24T14:14:51.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:14:51 | From the start, it's a train wreck. |
| 241676 | Rene Rodriguez | Miami Herald | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-24T14:02:03.000Z | 2005-06-24 14:02:03 | The result of people trying so hard to wring magic out of a dry well, all that's left to see is their flop sweat. |
| 241677 | Carol Cling | Las Vegas Review-Journal | Rotten | C+ | 2005-06-24T13:21:19.000Z | 2005-06-24 13:21:19 | Alas, there are limits to movie magic. Especially for a movie that doesn't have much to begin with. |
| 241678 | Cynthia Fuchs | PopMatters | Rotten | — | 2005-06-24T13:01:50.000Z | 2005-06-24 13:01:50 | Kidman again reveals her light, precise comic touch. |
| 241679 | Louis B. Hobson | Jam! Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-06-24T12:52:50.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:52:50 | If showbiz was baseball, Nicole Kidman would be precariously close to striking out. |
| 241680 | Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Rotten | C- | 2005-06-24T12:39:12.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:39:12 | [The TV Bewitched is] a heck of a lot better and much more entertaining than this new "reinvention" |
| 241681 | Ann Hornaday | Washington Post | Rotten | — | 2005-06-24T12:29:11.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:29:11 | After Kidman and Ferrell have hit all the expected marks (meet cute, encounter obstacles, fall in love, encounter fatal setback, fall back in love), the movie winds up being hoist on its own petard, becoming the butt of one of its own inside jokes. |
| 241682 | Geoff Pevere | Toronto Star | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-06-24T12:21:53.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:21:53 | For one thing, it looks every bit as drab as the average 1966 sitcom did: overlit, flat, studiobound and phony. For another, it's just as unfunny as the original. |
| 241683 | Maitland McDonagh | TV Guide | Rotten | 2/5 | 2005-06-24T12:15:39.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:15:39 | Once the multilayered real-vs.-reel high jinks wear out their welcome, the absence of magic is sadly evident. |
| 241684 | Jack Mathews | New York Daily News | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-06-24T12:05:49.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:05:49 | Though there are funny bits here and there, the script just isn't funny enough. |
| 241685 | Amy Biancolli | Houston Chronicle | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2005-06-24T12:01:40.000Z | 2005-06-24 12:01:40 | It is courageously weird -- and that alone casts a spell. |
| 241686 | Lisa Kennedy | Denver Post | Fresh | 3/4 | 2005-06-24T11:57:35.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:57:35 | Ephron casts a spell full of romantic-comedy charm even as it goes about the post-modern business of toying with our fondness for pop-cultural baubles like Bewitched. Consider the sparkling mood Ephron maintains as irreverent reverence. |
| 241687 | Jeff Vice | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-24T11:44:18.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:44:18 | If it were an outright train wreck, you could dismiss Bewitched as simply another failed small-screen-to-big-screen adaptation. But its mediocrity suggests that all it would have taken is some more work to make a decent movie. |
| 241688 | Tom Long | Detroit News | Rotten | C | 2005-06-24T11:42:40.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:42:40 | Bewitched is respectful of its origin, and it's brave enough to go beyond the obvious. Unfortunately, it goes beyond in a somewhat wrong direction. As a result, this broom stick doesn't really fly, it just glides along. |
| 241689 | Rick Groen | Globe and Mail | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-24T11:34:58.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:34:58 | Admittedly, there's a certain fascination in watching Kidman deliver these lines. You can see her struggling to make acting decisions with a character who requires none. |
| 241690 | Philip Wuntch | Dallas Morning News | Rotten | C- | 2005-06-24T11:27:10.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:27:10 | Ms. Kidman goes through it all as if impersonating an adorable trick-or-treater. |
| 241691 | Mary F. Pols | Contra Costa Times | Rotten | 2/4 | 2005-06-24T11:23:42.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:23:42 | Instead of being bewitched, we're bothered and bewildered. |
| 241692 | Lawrence Toppman | Charlotte Observer | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2005-06-24T11:18:19.000Z | 2005-06-24 11:18:19 | I was bewitched by the first third of Nora Ephron's new film, bothered by some unnecessary flab in the middle, then bewildered by a finale in which a guy who exists only in a character's mind drives an auto around Los Angeles. |
| 241693 | Josh Larsen | Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2005-06-24T10:56:56.000Z | 2005-06-24 10:56:56 | ...the Ephrons seem overwhelmed by their own concept. |
| 241694 | Christine James | Boxoffice Magazine | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2005-06-24T10:44:49.000Z | 2005-06-24 10:44:49 | [An] occasionally amusing but entirely forgettable film. |
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