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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: [Manages] to be too clever by half and 100 percent ridiculous. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The result of people trying so hard to wring magic out of a dry well, all that's left to see is their flop sweat. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: An uninspired misfire of a TV-series knockoff that, despite its great cast and smart filmmakers, never manages to scare up much magic. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Ephron seems unsure as to whether she's filming a zany retro comedy or a conventional romance, and the film zips back and forth between genres, never really settling. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Nora Ephron used to mine the tension between romantic fantasy and the real (disappointing) world for honest laughs. But now she has settled happily in big-budget star-studded chick-flick land, where it's all synthetic, all the time. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: In the original TV series, Elizabeth Montgomery had this kind of sexy, subversive personality. Here we just have this naive person who just flits about. Read more
Jill Vejnoska, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A fast-paced, quip-witted movie that sends out mixed signals about its deeper message. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: If it lost every bad idea, miscast actor, wasted performance, and botched scene, nothing would be left but the end credits. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: So what's left? Pretty much Kidman's consternation and Ferrell's one-man show, which is funny for awhile but eventually even he runs out of gags. Perhaps more cowbell would have helped. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A phony and cynical look at how Hollywood might make or remake a television show. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The show, no matter how fantastical, was about something real. The movie is about Hollywood. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It is courageously weird -- and that alone casts a spell. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: The result is not only an homage to the original TV show, it's also a gentle -- and at times hilarious -- spoof of Hollywood. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Ephron casts a spell full of romantic-comedy charm even as it goes about the post-modern business of toying with our fondness for pop-cultural baubles like Bewitched. Consider the sparkling mood Ephron maintains as irreverent reverence. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Ephron sisters, sophisticates entrusted with a simple TV situation comedy, lose the magic of the com as they mess with the sit. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Ms. Kidman goes through it all as if impersonating an adorable trick-or-treater. Read more
Steven Mikulan, L.A. Weekly: The film's funny for 15 minutes as it skewers Hollywood and prowls block after block of familiar L.A. scenery. After that, with a twitch of the nose, all plot vanishes. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: In the process of avoiding a feature-length replay of the TV show (a trap The Honeymooners walked right into), Bewitched edifies die-hard fans by channeling the original's memorable supporting cast. Read more
Ken Tucker, New York Magazine/Vulture: What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career? Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Kidman is enchanting, true, and Caine, MacLaine and Chenoweth work hard, but even with the few good gags sprinkled throughout, you don't leave the theater smiling. The spell fades. The magic just isn't there. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Though there are funny bits here and there, the script just isn't funny enough. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A disaster so low in energy that it jumpstarts its own engine every 10 minutes. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Outside of the perfomers, which include Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell and a nicely tuned supporting cast, there isn't much to look at here. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The fluffiest surprise of the summer. When it comes to the race for giggles, it's Nicole by a nose. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's one of those movies where you smile and laugh and are reasonably entertained, but you get no sense of a mighty enterprise sweeping you along with its comedic force. There is not a movie here. Just scenes in search of one. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The artificiality of Bewitched is so exaggerated that it almost works in the movie's favor for the first 20 minutes or so, before that heavy synthetic Ephron odor really sets in. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Screenwriters Ephron and her sister Delia are able to get laughs and make character points even in the moments of laying out a fairly involved exposition, and that's no small thing. That's skilled craftsmanship. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The kind of movie where the lulls between jokes are brief and you leave the theater a little happier than when you came in. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Admittedly, there's a certain fascination in watching Kidman deliver these lines. You can see her struggling to make acting decisions with a character who requires none. Read more
Christy Lemire, Journal News (Westchester, NY): Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: For one thing, it looks every bit as drab as the average 1966 sitcom did: overlit, flat, studiobound and phony. For another, it's just as unfunny as the original. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Despite the intriguing set-up, formula proves as hard a habit for Ephron to kick as magic is for Isabel. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Bewitched will not cast you under its spell. It is more likely to bother and bewilder. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Suffers from its sheer peculiarity as well as a lack of chemistry (or alchemy, for that matter) between leads Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Unrivaled in modern times for smugness, vapidity, and condescension. To spend even 10 minutes in the movie's universe is to experience the Sartrean nausea of an utterly hollow head and heart. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It sinks so deep and fast, you don't even see bubbles on the surface. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: After Kidman and Ferrell have hit all the expected marks (meet cute, encounter obstacles, fall in love, encounter fatal setback, fall back in love), the movie winds up being hoist on its own petard, becoming the butt of one of its own inside jokes. Read more