21st Film (2000): #014 - Bedazzled (with Tom Salinsky)

It's a podcast crossover episode, as Lorcan is joined by one-third of the fabulous 'Best Pick' podcast, Tom Salinsky, to discuss a film that was never going to trouble the Academy Award voters in 2000, Harold Ramis's third of a loose trilogy of films about highly imperfect men being confronted by fantastical events to hopefully change them for the better.

However, instead of it being the Bill Murray/Michael Keaton wiseass, it's the ever lovable innocence of Brendan Fraser that sees his nerdy office drone try to resolve his unrequited love problem with the aid of Liz Hurley's seductively charming Satan.

A remake of the beloved Peter Cook/Dudley Moore 1967 comedy, could this Hollywood reinterpretation match the biting satirical tongue of Cook? It's a film that has its defenders (perhaps even one of them within the episode itself). Let's see if that's a defence that is valid...

Next week: Lorcan is rejoined by Adam Hawker to discuss Paul Verhoeven's last film in Hollywood, Hollow Man.