On DVD: Bewitched

Let me say a couple of things right off the bat. Will Ferrell has always been just marginally funny in my opinion and Nicole Kidman is one of the finest actresses in Hollywood today. I was intrigued to see how these two would mesh in a remake of the very popular television series "Bewitched". The whole charm of the television show was Elizabeth Montgomery being the grounding force in a wacky world of characters, Doctor Bombay, Uncle Arthur and Endora to name a few. Montgomery's Samantha just wanted to live a normal life with a mortal that she fell in love with and the aforementioned characters wanted her to embrace her "witch" side a little more. That's the television show, the movie however misses the point.
Ferrell plays a washed up movie star that decides to remake "Bewitched", to highlight himself on the show he casts an unknown as Samantha, that unknown is a real life witch played by Kidman. This promising plot never develops into anything more than an excuse for Ferrell to display his silly over the top antics while dissing then falling in love with Kidman. Kidman for whatever reason whispers through most of the film and is frozen in an aloof childish posture that becomes annoying real fast.
Shirley McClaine as Endora and Michael Caine as Kidman's father cannot rescue the uneven script and awkward pacing that bog this film down and eventually make it a sub par remake of an adored television series.