This is not the remake of the Bewitched old series, actually it tells the story of real witch Isabel Bigelow who meets by chance actor Jack Wyatt and gets offered the role of Samantha in their remake of it. So it's Nicole Kidman playing witch Isabel who plays Samantha. Not that great effort in terms of acting, because it's 2005 and she was already all concentrated on being pretty oh so pretty and didn't have time to think of acting too.
I must add though that she was the right choice for the role because she does move the nose the right way, Samantha's characteristic thing, and Kidman does it really well and very prettily. It's not a small thing because it's important to the role and it's not at all as easy as it looks when they do it.
Still, a pleasant film, altogether. Fans of Will Ferrell might like it more than me, since I'm kind of impartial towards him. The long scene when they are happy together, all dancing and whatnot was actually boring to me, not romantic, but she was undoubtedly very pretty.
Isabel's character is kind of nice, but can be annoying if you stop to think that she keeps telling her father that she wants to give up magic for a normal life, to find a love that is true instead of getting everything you want by magic as he does, and yet she keeps using magic for anything. She needs a house:magic. A car?Magic. Money?Magic. It's addictive, we get it.
Jack's character is so egocentric, but that's right, he's an actor. Without knowing still the plot of the film, as soon as I saw him and he said How do I look? I thought, you're an actor, aren't you?
Michael Caine plays Isabel's father, and I have no remarks here because he's his old self as always, perfect and lovely.
Shirley MacLaine plays the part of an actress who plays Endora (Samantha's mother) and in secret is a real witch. I really like Shirley MacLaine, and although this certainly isn't her best role, it's still nice.
The story is all there really. Isabel wants to find a real love, she wants a man that really needs her. When Jack sees her by chance moving her nose like Samantha did, he tells her that he needs her, meaning that without her that might not be a movie at all. She gets the part and the audience likes her a lot. Not so much Jack.. which is a good thing because he was so egocentric he was making it all about himself, while bewitched should be primarily about her. She falls in love, puts a spell on him but then of course she's upset because she doesn't know if what he says is true or not so she reverses it. Of course in the end he falls in love too and the show is a success. She thinks: he loves me, so she tells him her secret, that she's a witch, and he's all freaked out he tries to shoo her away with a broom. She's upset and leaves, but then he's so miserable without her that he goes after her and it's happy ending of course.
Honestly the one between Caine's and MacLaine's characters was the nicest romance, and the funniest too. He's something of a playboy, and goes after every woman, her included, but after that she starts secretly doing magic to avert his attention from other women so that he's all concentrated on her :lol:
It's one of those films that will never be my first choice, but still I could rewatch without too much effort. It's nice, easy, light... and there's no denying of course, she does look really pretty.
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