You've read the reviews, you know it's not going to be as brilliant as the original and yet, there's a strange compulsion to see it anyway.
It's not that bad, really. There's heaps more that could have been done with it. Brendan Fraser never really got the chance to flex his comedic muscle as much as I would have liked, Frances O'Connor, in her first "Hollywood blockbuster" had little more than a passing role and was under-utilised. The big surprise, for me, came in the shape of vampy vixen and she-Devil, Elizabeth Hurley. Again she could have really camped it up (there was an element of restraint), but it appeared that she was really relishing her role as the Devil anyway. I guess that really letting loose on this film would have meant that the PG rating wouldn't have applied therefore it would be open to a wider audience. Be that as it may....
The plot rolls along, with no real deviation (no pun intended), no real surprises but it's a nice popcorn, check your brain at the door kind of film.
It's not that bad, really. There's heaps more that could have been done with it. Brendan Fraser never really got the chance to flex his comedic muscle as much as I would have liked, Frances O'Connor, in her first "Hollywood blockbuster" had little more than a passing role and was under-utilised. The big surprise, for me, came in the shape of vampy vixen and she-Devil, Elizabeth Hurley. Again she could have really camped it up (there was an element of restraint), but it appeared that she was really relishing her role as the Devil anyway. I guess that really letting loose on this film would have meant that the PG rating wouldn't have applied therefore it would be open to a wider audience. Be that as it may....
The plot rolls along, with no real deviation (no pun intended), no real surprises but it's a nice popcorn, check your brain at the door kind of film.
