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Created May 28, 2017 08:34PM PST • Edited May 29, 2017 12:38AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Pretty Bad 1.5

   One might think Raquel Welch would be in at least several scenes of Bedazzled, given her prominence – ahem – in the poster. You’d be wrong. Thrusting her benchmark boobs into Dudley Moore’s face, with only a bikini top in the way, she looks very big in the poster. Very big. Yet Raquel – #2 Hottest Woman of All Time, per Men’s Health – appears in just two over-the-top scenes, not nearly enough to rescue this comedy.

   Swinging London in the Swinging Sixties was a momentous time in the hedonization of post-modern society. But it’s aged poorly, especially given the infantile comedy of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook.

   10 was hardly a 10. Bedazzled ain’t even a 2.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

   Raquel Welch

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Pretty Bad 1.5

    Peter Cook & Dudley Moore wrote the screenplay.

    They got the immortal Stanley Donen to direct it, a mistake for him.

    Charade it’s not, nor Singin’ in the Rain, not even Funny Face. Not even close.

11. Direction Bad 1.0

12. Play Bad 1.0

13. Music Bad 1.0

14. Visuals Great 4.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.3

17. Sex Erotic 2.8

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Salty 2.5

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.6

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 3.6

23. Biological Supernatural 3.6

24. Physical Supernatural 3.6