Hands up all of you who'd agree that Elizabeth Hurley is an awful actress!!! I've not met anyone who'd differ, who's seen her act, or try to act. Thankfully until Bedazzled, as far as I know, she's had no leading roles.

She's been in small parts in only a few well known flicks including the two Austin Powers movies, Edtv, My Favourite Martian and Passenger 57. Let's hope she doesn't blight the screens too often for too long.

But that might be too much to hope for. She's in just about every promotional film ever thought of and models for perfumes and clothes. She must have a terrific publicist and manager, or is a lot smarter than she appears in her films.

Actually I'd like someone to describe the way she walks. It's sort of a up and down lope, a vertical swagger and it's definitely curious. But it works for her I suppose, and here she is in a pretty awful remake of what was a brilliant 1960's film, which then starred the truly talented Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

Hurley plays the Devil, down on earth to collect souls and for some reason she reckons that Elliot, a social klutz, would make a fine inhabitant of the Nether World. The standard formula develops.

The Devil will give Elliot seven wishes in exchange for Elliot's soul (whatever that means) but the Devil tricks Elliot up every time. He wants to be powerful - he becomes a drug barron. He wants to be sensitive - he becomes a blithering sentimentalist.

Elliot is played by the nearly always excellent Brendan Fraser (Encino Man, George Of The Jungle, Blast From The Past). Frazer has peopled his career with nice fellows. Elliot is again a nice guy, but the movie doesn't flatter Fraser.

As Bedazzled proceeds we are treated to what becomes meerly a succession of skits for Frazer, and a series of costume changes for the vapid but glamourous Hurley. Some of the skits work well though with some funny visual jokes.

You've probably viewed the shorts and seen Elliot discovering that he can speak Spanish and there's a particularly funny scene involving Elliot as a dumb head basketball star. But I dare you to laugh out loud!

Australian actress Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park, Thank God He Met Lizzie, Kiss Or Kill, Love and Other Catastrophes) is probably the best aspect of Bedazzled, even though her good looks are horribly spoilt by her turning blond, with black eyebrows, for most of the film.

She plays Alison, Elliot's love interest, with a nice amount of energy. Thank God there was another woman to take our attention from The Devil.

One Little Willie Fly