Bewitched (2005)
Here I am with another (personal) review of Bewitched, remake of the famous Bewitched (1964).
First of all just a word about the theatre where I saw the movie: for (at least) the first 20 minutes an annoying black line appeared in the middle of the film, very thin, but it was really annoying (probably I was the only one that I noticed). The sound was very high pitched and the actors were yelling most of the time.
I was attracted by this movie partially because of the director (Nora Ephron, her masterpiece: When Harry met Sally…) and because of Nicole Kidman…
For who, like me, watched the original series there is no reason to see this movie: there are only 1 or 2 good lines and the original Samantha was amazing… the Kidman one is -in simple words- stupid; also the sarcasm of the old Endora was more “edgy” (in fact all the old cast was pretty good). And it fails as a love story too (I will ask my girlfriend but I think I know the answer).
The original series is 254 episodes long: will this mean that this movie will eventually raise the price of the complete collection on DVDs (if any) ? I have this strange feeling that all these new remakes are a sort of big spot for DVD sales and we pay for it…
Let’s not forget another nice series: I dream of Jeannie (Strega per amore in Italy) with an “early Jr”.