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'Bewitched': New takes on the old sitcom
by Jill Vejnoska

First things first. Yes, Samantha does twitch her nose in the big-screen version of "Bewitched." Some things you just don't mess with. But she also tugs on her ear to make magic. No, wait, that's Isabel (Nicole Kidman) when she's not playing Samantha opposite Jack's (Will Ferrell) Darrin on the fake sitcom embedded in this movie that's based on a real TV show from the 1960s. It's all somewhat confusing. Yet also kind of clever... Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A downward spiraling movie star remaking "Bewitched" as a TV series unwittingly casts a real witch named Isabel in the part of Samantha. All Isabel wants is a "normal" life, but love, jealousy and other very mortal emotions cast their spell.

FILM FACTS ...

Columbia Pictures

'Bewitched'

Director: Nora Ephron
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine
Run time: 105 minutes
Release date: June 24, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for some language, including sex and drug references, and partial nudity.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B-
"The end result of all this blurring of the new and old, the unreal and the real, is a fast-paced, quip-witted movie that sends out mixed signals about its deeper message."

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Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"Sure, star Nicole Kidman can wiggle her nose and is as cute as the original Samantha, Elizabeth Montgomery. But where Montgomery was mischievous and sympathetic, Kidman is suffering a hangover from her last remake, 'The Stepford Wives': She's a robot, all perkiness and no soul."