Line #41 Film/Bedazzled2000


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Because Creator/ElizabethHurley is more appealing than Creator/PeterCook.]]
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4	->'''The Devil:''' Paragraph one states that I, the Devil, a not-for-profit cooperation, with offices in Purgatory, Hell, and Los Angeles, will give you seven wishes to use as you see fit.\
5	'''Elliot Richards:''' Seven? Why not eight?\
6	'''The Devil:''' Why not six? I don't know. Seven just sounds right.
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8	The [[TheRemake remake]] of ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'' was released in 2000. Directed by Creator/HaroldRamis, it stars Creator/BrendanFraser and Creator/ElizabethHurley.
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10	In this version, Elliot Richards (Fraser) is a geeky and friendless office drone who is in love with beautiful co-worker Alison (Creator/FrancesOConnor), but is too shy to act on his feelings. After being ditched at a bar by his "friends", Elliot runs into a beautiful woman (Hurley) who tells him that she's [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] and offers him seven wishes in return for his soul. While obviously hesitant, he accepts in the hopes of using his wishes to make himself into the perfect man for Alison.
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13	!!This film contains examples of:
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15	* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: Pro-Basketball player Elliot gives this line:
16	-->"Ah... well, you know, you go out there and you give a 110%, and you wanna play good, and, you know, you hope you play good... I think we played pretty good tonight!"
17	* AdaptationNameChange: Stanley Moon and Margaret Spencer from the original are renamed Elliot Richards and Allison Gardner.
18	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Margaret Spencer from the original wasn't necessarily ugly, but definitely more on the homely side, kind of like Stanley. Allison Gardner in the remake is definitely more of a looker out of the loser protagonist's league.
19	* AdaptedOut: The personifications of the Seven Deadly sins, though the Devil in this version is [[CompositeCharacter just as based off of Lillian Lust as much as Peter Cook's depiction of the Devil from the original]].
20	* AffablyEvil: The Devil. Sure, she's out for Elliot's soul, but she's generally friendly and sympathetic to him most of the time. Even after [[spoiler:he nullifies their contract and saves himself]], she's still polite and cordial before seeing him off.
21	* AllGaysLoveTheater: Elliot's fourth wish when he is loudly denying he is gay (deal with the devil 4th wish), the guy he lives with gives him a quick quiz ending with "What was the original Broadway cast of ''The Pajama Game''?" He names off 3-4 characters in as many seconds before catching himself "Oh my God, I AM gay!"
22	* AllWomenAreLustful: The Devil forces a kiss on Elliot almost immediately after meeting him in person.
23	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Devil's feeling about God.
24	-->"You know, you'd think meeting The Devil would be interesting enough, but ''no''. All people want to know about is ''Him''. Like's ''He's'' so bloody fascinating!"
25	* AnAesop:
26	** "It doesn't matter how far we go in life... [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts it's how we get there that counts]]."
27	** As the end credits song spells out, you shouldn't waste your life passively wishing you were someone else, you should learn to like yourself or put in the work to become the kind of person you enjoy being.
28	* AnticlimaxCut: After Elliot wishes for a Big Mac and a coke. Cut to... the bus ride, and [=McDonald's=] counter.
29	* AppleForTeacher: When the Devil appears as a HotTeacher, she has pile of apples on her desk from her horndog students.
30	* ArbitrarySkepticism: ZigZagged. On the one hand, a random lady at a club telling you she's The Devil and providing a card that says "The Devil" on it as proof, and granting your MundaneWish with a bus ride to [=McDonalds=] isn't very convincing. On the other hand, Elliot refusing to believe that the strange lady who engages in OffscreenTeleportation, changes outfits in the blink of an eye, can read his every thought, has a club full of people who all know his name, and provides the ''exact same cookies'' his grandmother used to bake might actually be The Devil counts... ''until'' she transforms into a stereotypical BigRedDevil right in front of him. When he ''finally'' believes her, her sympathy is almost sarcastic.
31	-->'''The Devil:''' You know, if you would just buy into this whole "I'm The Devil" thing, it would save us both a lot of these questions.
32	* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Elliot is playing guitar during one of the fantasies, and he has his hand above the capo.
33	* BadGuysPlayPool: The Devil is introduced playing pool, knocking the cueball off the table to get Elliot's attention.
34	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In some cases, the consequences are arbitrary. To sum the whole thing up: Satan isn't even a LiteralGenie, she just [[JackassGenie gets to screw up Elliot's wishes however she wants]]. To wit:
35	** First wish: to be rich and powerful and married to Allison. He becomes a Colombian drug lord, and while married to Allison, she hates his guts and is cheating on him.
36	** Second wish: to be the most emotionally sensitive man in the world. He cries over everything and Allison leaves him because he's an annoying wimp.
37	** Third wish: a superstar athlete and a ChickMagnet. He becomes an awesome basketball player [[DumbMuscle with no brain]] and a TeenyWeenie.
38	** Fourth wish: intelligent, charming and handsome and wanted Allison to fall in love with him. Making him gay was arbitrary.
39	** Fifth wish: wished to be the President. He becomes [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abe Lincoln]] on the day of his assassination.
40	** After his fifth wish it is revealed that [[spoiler:what ended up being considered his actual first wish (a Big Mac and a Coke) was granted before he even signed the contract, so his fifth wish is actually the sixth.]]
41	** But the seventh wish makes up for everything. [[spoiler:Literally, it turns out.]]
42	*** Allison herself experiences this in Elliot's second wish, as the reason he made it was because he read in Allison's diary that she'd really love to date an emotionally sensitive guy who's not afraid to express his emotions. But she finds hyper sensitive Elliot extremely annoying and eventually decides her new preferred type of a man is [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys a selfish jerk who will take advantage of her and only pretend to love her for sex.]]
43	* BigPrickBigProblems: {{Defied\|Trope}}. Elliot sees the potential for this and makes sure to clarify that he wants to be ''reasonably'' well-endowed in his next wish, forcing the devil to [[StraightGay contrive a completely different way to screw him over]].
44	* BigRedDevil:
45	** In order to convince Elliot that she is the real deal, the Devil briefly transforms into a more typical Western portrayal of Satan with horns, red skin, and a goatee, stating that she dislikes it because "it's so trick-or-treat."
46	** Later, in an attempt to intimidate Elliot into making his final wish, she transforms herself into a [[OneWingedAngel large, demonic Chernabog-like beast]]. [[spoiler:It turns out they were just special effects.]]
47	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Allison and Elliot clearly both think so. When he's a basketball star in one wish and she's a reporter clearly lusting after him, she has tons of insinuations on this, then quite openly stares waiting for Elliot to open his towel. They are both [[TeenyWeenie sorely disappointed]]. He then insists that in his next wish he be well-endowed. This is granted, though he then has [[StraightGay other problems]].
48	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Eliot's DealWithTheDevil ends with none of his wishes coming true and he DidNotGetTheGirl, but he gets to keep his soul, [[GrewASpine grows as a person]], and [[ThrowTheDogABone meets a nice girl]] [[BirdsOfAFeather who shares his interests and hobbies]]. Who looks ''exactly'' like Allison.]]
49	* BrandX: For one of his wishes, Elliot ends up playing profession basketball for the "Diablos". The logo also appears as a sticker in his cubicle at work.
50	* BrokenAesop: Played with. The lesson Elliot learns by going through his wishes and living different lives is that NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction and ItsTheJourneyThatCounts. However, all of his wishes turns out poorly solely because the Devil is a JackassGenie who ''technically'' gave him what he asked for, but thought of a way to screw it up -- there was nothing obviously wrong with the wishes themselves, just how she fulfilled them. By the time Elliot is on his fifth wish, he stops wishing for Allison to love him, not because he's stopped wanting her but because he recognizes that the Devil will change Allison's personality and/or contrive some reason she isn't interested in him. It's due to a conversation with a MagicalNegro that he finally has his CharacterDevelopment, not due to anything the Devil did to him or with his wishes.
51	* CanonForeigner: In this version, the main character has coworkers who hate his guts and play roles in each of his wishes, ala ''The Wizard Of Oz'', a concept absent from the original.
52	* CaptionHumor: The opening and closing sequences.
53	* TheCartel: His first wish is to be rich and powerful. So he becomes a drug lord. And his wife hates him. Hey, he said he wanted to be ''married''. [[LiteralGenie He never said she had to]] ''love'' him.
54	* CastAsAMask: Elizabeth Hurley simply plays the devil's human form, his true form is performed via the PeopleInRubberSuits method by Tom Woodruff Jr. with voice duties by an uncredited Creator/LexLang.
55	* CheatersNeverProsper: The Devil cheats at chess; [[{{God}} her opponent]] catches her in the act.
56	* ChekhovsClassroom: Sort of. Early in the film the Devil mentions that Elliot [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to be liked]] [[IJustWantToBeLoved and loved]], but how about [[GrewASpine respected and feared]]? Near the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Elliot doesn't end up with Allison or befriend his coworkers]], but he ''does'' gain his boss's and coworker's respect and fear by [[GrewASpine standing up to them]].
57	* CompositeCharacter: Being the Devil makes Liz Hurley's character clearly the equivalent of the original's George Spiggott (Creator/PeterCook), but choosing to go as a gorgeous woman who's TheTease also makes her one for the Devil's assistant in the original, Lillian Lust (Creator/RaquelWelch).
58	* CoolCar: The Devil drives a Lamborghini [[{{Pun}} Diablo]] which Elliot is very impressed by.
59	* CrocodileTears: Elliot figures out pretty early that the Devil is a JackassGenie, but she manipulates him into thinking otherwise with an impressive crying display.
60	* CurseEscapeClause: [[spoiler:Performing one selfless wish or act while under the Devil's wish-granting contract voids it.]]
61	* DarkestHour: After Elliot's fifth wish. [[spoiler:He learns it's really his sixth wish since the Devil is counting [[MundaneWish the Big Mac and Coke]] even though he hadn't signed a contract yet, making him ''finally'' realize the Devil is a JackassGenie who will mess up his every wish no matter what and claim his soul [[AllForNothing giving him nothing for it]]. When he tries to confess to a priest he's arrested and booked for drunk and disorderly conduct, and the Devil herself locks him up and [[BreakThemByTalking tries to break him]] by telling him YouCantFightFate.]]
62	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the Writer wish, Elliott's book is named ''Always Toujours''.[[note]] "Toujours" is "Always" in French.[[/note]]
63	* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Elliot. He's so desperate for ''any'' kind of friendly or romantic attention that his coworkers dread and avoid him due to him being too ham-fistedly needy and eager to please. It's why the Devil singles him out to begin with.
64	* DevilButNoGod: Referenced early on.
65	-->'''Devil:''' Yes, there's a God.\
66	'''Elliot:''' Really? What's he like?\
67	'''Devil:''' Y'know, you'd think meeting ''THE DEVIL'' would be interesting enough, but no, all they want to talk about is ''Him''. Like ''He's'' so bloody fascinating.\
68	'''Elliot:''' So He's a man.\
69	'''Devil:''' Yeah. [[TakeThat Most men think they're God. This one just happens to be right.]]
70	* TheDevilIsALoser: [[spoiler: Even more so than the original version. She didn't even have the authority to claim souls, she did it all for fun.]]
71	* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Even after everything he's gone through, Elliot finds out Allison was already dating. It turns out to be alright though as the experience taught Elliot about himself and gives him a confidence boost. Plus, he did get a different girl though... Who looks ''[[ActingForTwo exactly like Allison]].'']]
72	* DivineRaceLift: God is black, the Devil is a woman. Of course, they can presumably appear however they'd like, and the Devil shows us other forms as well.
73	* TheDogBitesBack: Near the end, Elliot's coworkers had the bright idea to make fun of him rather than offer sympathy or support after [[spoiler:[[DidNotGetTheGirl he got turned down by Allison]]]]. Eliot's TranquilFury reaction quickly puts them in their place.
74	* {{Doorstopper}}: Elliot's contract takes the form of a massive one. The Devil summons it from thin air so it drops from above head height [[GroinAttack straight on his crown jewels]].
75	* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:The Devil does this to intimidate Elliot into making his last wish. Unfortunately - for her - it causes him to make the wish that renders the contract void.]]
76	* TheDreaded: Elliot is this to his workmates at the start of the movie, due to his ham-fisted efforts to shoe-horn himself into their social group. Every time he enters a room, they desperately try to find some polite way to flee.
77	* DumbJock: What Elliot turns into when he wishes to become a star NBA player. Despite having multiple notes pinned to his locker with the escape code written on them it still takes him [[RuleOfThree three]] tries to get "666" typed correctly.
78	* EvilBrit: Liz Hurley as Satan.
79	* EvilIsPetty: In between wishes, the Devil gives people parking fines, tells high school kids not to bother with their studies because they were boring, swaps medication for Tic Tacs, and cheats at chess with God.
80	* EvilLawyerJoke: Apparently, the Devil has clients.
81	* ExactWords: As you'd expect, The Devil plays these for all they're worth. Most of what she says of herself and her intentions are MetaphoricallyTrue (though Elliot is usually too nice or oblivious to catch their double meanings), and she uses these to be a JackassGenie.
82	** Elliot actually catches onto this during his second wish ([[spoiler:technically third]]) and carefully rewords his wish to be more specific than he had been before.
83	--->'''Elliot:''' I want to be the most sensitive guy in the world\
84	'''The Devil:''' Okay...sure...\
85	'''Elliot:''' Ah...I want to be the most ''emotionally'' sensitive man...\
86	'''The Devil:''' Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't catch that. I could have had a lot of fun with that one.
87	* ExtremeDoormat: The opening title sequence explicitly calls Elliot this. His EstablishingCharacterMoment even has him hold a door open for a woman, only for an endless crowd of people rush through for several minutes, and he's too polite to stop holding it open for them.
88	* FoeRomanticSubtext: The Devil and Elliot throughout much of the film. The two have undeniably strong chemistry and her [[TheTease flirting]] never seems insincere, at one point suggesting an eternity in Hell with her wouldn't be ''so bad.''
89	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Elliot starts out as a Type 2 and 6 in his group of co-worker "friends", all of whom dislike him as annoying and often try to ditch him or make fun of him behind his back, but at the same time are not cruel enough to outright tell him to go away.
90	* GenderFlip: The Devil is recast as Elizabeth Hurley.
91	* GodIsGood: He turns out to be a very nice guy who gave Elliot some very valuable advice, bringing him back from the brink of damning himself.
92	* GodKartingWithBeelzebub: The last we see of God and the Devil is the two of them playing chess in the park (she cheats when he isn't looking).
93	* GodTest: The Devil offers Elliot a test wish to prove that she's for real. He asks for a [[MundaneWish Big Mac and a Coke]], probably expecting her to conjure them out of the air. Instead she puts them on a bus to [=McDonald's=] and orders them (and makes him pay for it). Elliot, unsurprisingly, does not find this convincing.
94	* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:The Devil, oddly enough. After being forced to void the contract, she gives Elliot some sound advice about free will, and they leave on good terms.]]
95	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: When Elliot meets Nicole, he is dumbstruck by the fact that [[spoiler:she looks exactly like Allison but is a brunette]]. Nicole, seeing that he doesn't reply, starts asking him in various languages if he speaks English... except French. For some reason, she asks in French if he speaks American.
96	* GratuitousRussian: Besides being a Colombian drug lord, Elliot suddenly realizes he speaks fluent (well, [[FauxFluency Faux Fluent]]) Russian. When he does, he curses in Russian. That last part is not subtitled.
97	* GratuitousSpanish: The first wish. Elliot even reacts with regular StockPhrases from Spanish class.
98	* GrewASpine: Elliot, over the course of the film.
99	* HotAsHell: The Devil.
100	-->"Prince of Darkness. Well, ''princess.''"
101	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: At the start of the movie, Elliot's ham-fisted efforts to befriend his co-workers are ''painful'' to watch.
102	* InstantCostumeChange: The Devil does this several times throughout the movie, usually switching outfits when Elliot or the camera isn't looking at her. When Elliot comes to see her at the end of the move she changes from a red dress to an angel costume by walking behind a screen.
103	* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Elliot starts the movie wishing he were richer, more successful, better-looking, etc. but towards the end he starts to realize it doesn't really matter how far we go in life, it's how we get there that counts.
104	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Elliot's last wish [[spoiler: that Allison has a happy life.]]
105	* JackassGenie: The Devil fits the trope perfectly, with every wish Elliot makes being granted exactly without giving Elliot exactly what he wanted (rich, powerful and married=drug lord in unhappy marriage, emotionally sensitive=overdoes it, basketball player=intellectually limited with tiny penis, intellectually brilliant writer=gay, President of the United States=Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination). Admittedly, the Devil is obviously not a Genie, and in the end it turns out worse for ''her'' than it does for him.
106	* KickTheDog: After Elliot [[spoiler:[[DidNotGetTheGirl is turned down by Allison]]]] near the end, his coworkers decide to make fun of him rather than offer sympathy or support. His TranquilFury reaction [[TheDogBitesBack quickly puts them in their place]].
107	* KubrickStare: Elliot gives one to the Devil when she says that God exists and is a man, then quips that most men think they're divine, he's just actually right. He also gives another to his [[TheDogBitesBack not-so-nice co-workers when they mock him near the end]].
108	* LadyInRed: How the Devil first presents herself to Elliot, as she's HotAsHell. Most of her costumes are either red or [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black]].
109	* LargeHam: Fraser got a chance to show off how hammish he can be, particularly during the second wish.
110	* LaughablyEvil: It's hard to hate the Devil when she's such a hilarious {{Troll}}.
111	* LovingAShadow: {{Downplayed}}. Elliot spends most of the movie insisting that he knows Alison ("I know that she likes her bagels buttered, not toasted," "I know Alison is not really like that"), but in the end [[spoiler:after his CharacterDevelopment]], he has to admit that he doesn't know her, but he would like to get to know her. [[spoiler:After Elliot starts dating Nicole, the movie empathizes that it's a real relationship by listing the various ways that they annoy each other.]]
112	* MagicalNegro: [[spoiler:{{God}}, apparently. He appears to Elliot in the prison cell and gives him a heartfelt speech which strengthens Elliot's resolve when the man was about to give up on everything. Of course, being God he can appear in any form he'd like, we presume.]]
113	* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: [[spoiler: When Elliot wished to be intelligent, he finds out he's also ManlyGay with a CampGay lover.]]
114	* MedicationTampering: One of the Devil's [[EvilIsPetty random acts of petty evil]] is to exchange all of the medicines that are being readied to hand out to patients in a hospital with candies. One of the changes that are explicitly mentioned is that of someone's antipsychotics being replaced with Tic-Tacs.
115	* MetaphoricallyTrue: After her CrocodileTears, Elliot asks if she was just playing him, and she replies that she was being 100% sincere: it's not easy being The Devil.
116	* MsFanservice: The producers got their money's worth from Hurley (see SexyWhateverOutfit below).
117	* MundaneWish: Given a test wish, Elliot tries something simple: a Big Mac and a large Coke. The devil fulfills his wish equally mundanely: she walks him to a bus station, they ride to [=McDonald's=], and she buys one for him. With his money.
118	* MyCard: The Devil hands Elliot her business card which simply reads "The Devil". Elliot understandably doesn't take it seriously and walks away, only to find she's [[OffscreenTeleportation suddenly behind him]].
119	* NearMissGroinAttack: During the scene where Elliot meets [[HotAsHell The Devil]] as she's playing billiard, and she makes a point to emasculate him by hitting the cue ball right where he's standing on the pool table, just below his crotch, causing him to jump back in discomfort.
120	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elliot's SelflessWish for [[spoiler:Alison to have a happy life also mended her breakup, so she's no longer single when he finally gets the courage to ask her out]]. Subverted in that developing self-confidence was what he ''really'' needed all along, and [[spoiler:after gracefully accepting her situation and wishing her well, he returns home to see a young woman moving in next door who looks just like Alison, and turns out to a lot in common with him.]]
121	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Devil purposely twists Elliot's wishes so they turn out bad for him, which leads to him questioning his identity and eventually, making the selfless wish.
122	* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: In a sense. Elliot reveals near the end of the film that he's always wished someone would just wave a magic wand make all the things he's ever wanted happen. While the Devil ''is'' a JackassGenie, [[spoiler:a conversation with God]] convinces him that even if he could get the things he wanted by magic, it wouldn't mean as much as if he earned them through his own hard work.
123	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Elliot at the start of the movie. His coworkers cringe every time he claps their backs or gets into their personal space.
124	* NoSocialSkills: Part of why Elliot's workmates don't like him at the start of the movie. His ham-fisted efforts to befriend them despite their obvious annoyance and discomfort is downright painful to watch.
125	* NumberOfTheBeast: Elliot can abort a wish by calling "666" on the pager the Devil gives him.
126	* OhCrap: Elliot's reaction when he realises that the Devil granted his wish to be President by turning him into UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. He has an even bigger reaction seconds later when he realizes he's about to be assassinated.
127	-->'''Elliot:''' We're going to a play?!
128	* OneWingedAngel: The Devil does this when she attempts to scare Elliot towards the end, first becoming a [[BigRedDevil large horned-monster]] and then [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a giant bikini-clad version of herself]], both times with a large pitchfork.
129	* ThePeepingTom: After his second wish, Elliot gets sent invisibly into Alison's bedroom as she's showering, and the Devil urges him to "sneak a peek", which he tries to do. After she comes out he briefly gets one.
130	* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:After Elliot makes a SelflessWish, the Devil is a GracefulLoser, offers him advice, and wishes him luck]].
131	* ReadTheFinePrint: Oddly enough, this is one case where the fine print in a Faustian contract works in the beneficiary's favor. The fine print contains the escape clause that says the contract becomes void if he makes a selfless wish.
132	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Allison gives one to Elliot.
133	-->'''Elliot:''' Why don't you wanna stay here with me!?\
134	'''Allison''' You wanna know why Elliot?! Because you're just. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Too. Sensitive!]]'' I'm about to go out of mind. It's been wonderful, and God knows I love you, but ''enough is enough!'' I...[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys I just want to be with a man who will ignore me and take me for granted and who's only pretending to be interested in who I am and what I think so he can get into my pants.]]
135	* TheRemake: An Americanized and [[SettingUpdate updated]] one of the 1967 original. For instance, instead of a raspberry ice lolly (the British term for a popsicle) as the trial wish, Elliot wishes in this version for a Big Mac and large coke.
136	* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:After Elliot chats with Alison and learns she has a boyfriend, he goes home and runs into his new neighbor Nicole... played by the same actress. {{Lampshaded}} when he asks her "Do you have a sister?"]]
137	* SelflessWish: [[spoiler:Elliot uses his seventh wish to wish for [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy his beloved to be happy]].]]
138	* SensitiveArtist: After reading Allison's diary and learning she wants a sensitive guy, Elliot [[DealWithTheDevil wishes]] to become the most emotionally sensitive guy on Earth. The Devil, in what becomes a reoccuring pattern of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, makes him InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: he's so empathetic, he unabashedly cries at the thought of dolphins, cries at the beauty of the setting sun, and barely resists when two "bad boys" show up, kick sand in his face, and flirt with Allison in front of him, because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy He Wants His Beloved To Be Happy]] and Allison is [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys very receptive to their flirtation]]. Naturally, he is also able to whip out a hyper-realistic pencil sketch of Allison within seconds and wrote a song dedicated to the dolphin on his guitar.
139	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The original fifth wish saw Elliot decide to become a famous rock star, where he and Alison are a [[Music/SidVicious Sid and Nancy]]-style [[DestructiveRomance trainwreck of a couple]]. The scene was cut when the producers learned that the ClusterFBomb dialogue, explicit drug and sex references would have increased the movie's MPAA rating. It was replaced with the much tamer Presidential wish.
140	* SexyWhateverOutfit: Every time the Devil appears to Elliot after one of his wishes, she wears a different {{Fanservice}} outfit, usually as the object of desire in various stock male sexual fantasies:
141	** After his Columbian drug lord wish, she is dressed as a [[FairCop sexy policewoman]].
142	** During his NBA player wish, she is one of the team's [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleaders]].
143	** After that wish, she is a [[NaughtyNurseOutfit nurse]] [[HospitalHottie at a hospital]].
144	** After his next wish, she is a HotTeacher, complete with glasses and a [[CatholicSchoolgirlsRule short plaid skirt]].
145	** Deleted Scene Bonus: After the [[StraightGay Charming-but-gay]] wish she teases him as a [[FrenchMaidOutfit French Maid]] and appears as a leather-clad groupie photographer in Elliot's (deleted) rock star wish.
146	* ShoutOut: The Devil's dogs during the second wish are named Dudley and Peter after the stars of the first movie.
147	* SketchComedy: The wish fulfillment segments are like sketches of a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' episode.
148	* SmokingIsCool: Smoking gives Hurley the sexy look in spades.
149	* StraightGay: Elliot's fourth wish, which was of course completely necessary for that scene to work.
150	* SuddenlyBilingual: Elliot's first wish ([[spoiler:that he knows of]]) is to be rich and married to his LoveInterest Allison. [[{{Satan}} The Devil]] makes him a Colombian drug lord. When Elliot first encounters his butler, the butler talks to him in Spanish. Elliot's first reaction is to tell the butler that he doesn't speak Spanish... in Spanish. After realizing what he's just done, Elliot starts rapidly talking in Spanish, explaining how he never paid attention in the class. A little while later he realizes in the same manner that he knows Russian too.
151	* SweetAndSourGrapes: Elliot spends most of the movie ''desperately'' wanting to get together with Alison. In the end, [[spoiler: he tries to ask her out the old-fashioned way. She politely turns him down since she's already with someone, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy which he accepts with dignity]], and it looks like it'll be a BittersweetEnding about a man who DidNotGetTheGirl but gained confidence in himself... until he meets the new (literal) GirlNextDoor, who looks [[IdenticalStranger almost exactly like Alison]] but whose personality and interests better match Elliot's.]] All right then.
152	* SympathyForTheDevil: {{Invoked}} by the Devil.
153	-->'''The Devil:''' Do you think I enjoy this? I'm stuck in this horrible job for eternity. Everybody hates me. When I try to help someone they turn on me like I'm supposed to be God or something! For your information, my life is a living hell!
154	** And, much like you'd expect of the Devil, Hurley does a good job of straddling the line between sincerity and manipulation when she does it.
155	* TakeThat
156	-->'''Satan:''' How would you like to make one simple decision that'll change your life forever?\
157	'''Elliot:''' Okay, I'm glad Scientology works for you, but...
158	** Also:
159	--->"It's not easy being the Music/BarbraStreisand of Evil."
160	** The Devil mentions that she has offices in "Purgatory, Hell, and [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Los]] [[HorribleHollywood Angeles]]".
161	** Early on in the film, the Devil selects San Francisco as the location of her newest victim. Other candidates included the UsefulNotes/VaticanCity (cited to be too hard) and [[TheBigRottenApple New York]] (cited as ''[[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction too easy]]'').
162	** The Devil's take on God being a man.
163	--->"Most men think they're God, this one just happens to be right."
164	** When Elliot wishes to be a basketball player, The Devil briefly makes him Creator/DennisRodman, with hat, heels, and pink boa, to his horror. Although she was [[JustJokingJustification just kidding]].
165	* TeenyWeenie: Elliot is transformed into a huge sexy basketball player... who has laughably small equipment.
166	* TheTease: The Devil is quite the unapologetic flirt, kissing Elliott without hesitation.
167	* {{Troll}}: This version of The Devil doesn't seem to be a personification of all that is truly evil, heinous, and disgusting in the world so much as a ForTheEvulz JackassGenie who loves messing with people for fun.
168	* TrueBlueFemininity: Elliot notes that Allison looks particularly good in blue, and most of her costumes are either primarily blue or have blue accents. It also helps to contrast her with the Devil who mostly wears red or black.
169	* VanityLicensePlate: The Devil's car has "BAD 1" on its license plate. The helicopter used by the Russians during the first wish has the registration number "1GR8DVL".
170	* VillainousCrush: Satan has the "hots" for Elliott and wouldn't mind keeping him beside her in Hell...

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