make a mistake to watch the original one first, because it make me keep comparing it with each other. The original one is so funny with Dudley Moore & Peter Cook, this one... even though Liz Hurley is quite attractive, its not enough to save this movie and every wishes he does is not funny at all. Better watch the original one.
THRILLER IS MY FOOD!
Nah. Definitely prefer this one.
shareI missed the seven deadly sins in this one.
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I like the gender switch, that the remake at least tries a new approach. I also like that they pushed the level with the fantasy situations (foreign languages, different times) - especially the drug lord episode. I missed the seven deadly sins in the remake. Probably it was difficult as the female devil already impersonates lust, but at least it would have been interesting if in each sequence she impersonates onther sin herself. There are unnecessary religious annd moral undertones in the 2000 version (as often in american mainstream movies) and quite some cruel special effects. I definately didn't need her to transform in a cliché devil.
The original is much more true to itself, homogeneous and the devil has much a wider scope of actions. The movie has deeper jokes and a critical social undertones, in a comical way without trying to establish certain morals. Margeret gets a real character - Allison in the 2000 version hardly has one, she hardly appears outside the fantasy episodes. Both the premise and the end didn't work for me in the 2000 version. In the original the devil steps in because there is a guy who tries to commit suicide - he is not able to socialise. Here, the guy is just unpopular, he even goes to a party and meets the devil? And at the end when he meets the real Allison he acts articulate just as if he was in a wish sequence, not like being himself.
What I missed a bit in the original: a better rythm or a stronger climax. I like the wish episodes, I like the multiple subplots with Margeret or the sins, the multiple endings - the god ending and the back to shitty normal ending. But alltogether the flow of the movie could be better especially towards the end.