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Summary: SO GREAT! It's amazing it got made at all, it is SO GREAT!
Review: Enough Cannot be said! Moulin Rouge, is Great! It has it all! Really, story, music, acting, effects, costumes.....Every part of this film is Top Quality. I call it Mind-Choreographed it is as if you dreamed it. How this could have been made? Only one answer.Every single person involved in this production must have LOVED To make it. THANK YOU! Every Person who WORKED on this Film !!!!!!!!
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Summary: Absinthe-Soaked Hallucinogenic Dream
Review: This movie is a cracker - quite honestly the most visually stunning movie I have seen this year!! I had no expectations before seeing this movie and was blown away.The plot? Who cares? I have now seen it four times and plot makes no difference as each time I take in the splendour of the Moulin Rouge, the wonderful music and the perfect performances. The set is fantastic, and a great shame it has been destroyed as it is the heart of the movie. The music draws on the classics of the 20th Century - everything from Freddie Mercury to Madonna, is made over in the Luhrmann style. Finally the actors are perfect in the roles, the two standouts being Ewan McGregor, both in fine voice and looking ever the dashing hero and Jim Broadbent, the underrated British actor, who almost steals the movie from its leads with his eccentric version of "Like A Virgin (you have to see it to believe it!!) As for Ms Kidman, she is also very good and Mr Cruise will be ruing his decision to leave her after seeing this (which I hope he does). Go and see this movie - it is brilliant, outstanding, unbelievable - go and see it!
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Summary: Spectacular! Spectacular!
Review: Baz Luhrmann's musical masterpiece is a mind-blowing spectacle of color, music and genius. From the black and white poverty-stricken streets of Paris to the frenzied can-can dancing inside the club Mouling Rouge, this film had me mesmerized every second. I've noticed many people seem to flinch at the frenzied scene changes and peculiar soundtrack. Indeed, this movie is strange.. That's what I love about it. It doesn't adhere to the rules. It's different and daring and I believe people will get a lot more out of it if they sit back and just go with it. Enjoy it...don't question it. Allow yourself to be swept away from reality and absorbed into this alternate Bohemian world. Experience the magic of Moulin Rouge.
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Summary: The Greatest Musical I Have Ever Seen!!!
Review: I have to start out by saying that Baz Luhrmann is now one of my favorite directors, next to Steven Speilberg and Stanley Kubrick. I loved this movie because it was DIFFERENT. Studios have been making remakes and sequels and it's just getting boring. Even though this movie was a remake, it had a different feeling to it. It is my favorite musical, next to The Sound Of Music. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman should seriously get into singing. They brought out the most beautiful singing voices you could ever imagine. I own the CD and I love the songs that they compiled onto it, even though they forgot a lot of songs from the movie. They need to come out with a 2nd Volume of the soundtrack. I am hoping that the DVD will not only have the music video of "Lady Marmalade", but a commentary by Baz.
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Summary: A must! a definate must!
Review: Not many movies will make someone laugh, cry, and dance around the theater like Moulin Rouge. I should know; i saw it twice and did all three (both times). The music is spectacularly performed, and the acting is phenominal. This movie brings out the best in both of the starring actors, and is witty, romantic, suspenseful, funny, and beautiful. A must-see!!
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Summary: Moulin Rouge is Red Hot!
Review: I saw this film twice within a one week period, raced out and bought the C/D and played it continuosly for two weeks! Am I saturated? Nearly, but the experince continues to be devine! The "movie" is basically a Broadway Production (a musical) on film. It will do wonders on Broadway! Beautiful stage sets, a contemporary edge to a period piece with Attracive Actors with enticing voices, singing about the rollercoaster of Love. Breathtaking, and Ewan Mcgregor? The bomb!
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Summary: The Show Must Go On...
Review: What an incredible movie! This film was extremely captivating. It draws you in from the beginning and drops you off rather abruptly and reluctantly when "The End" shows up on the screen. Need a quick overview of this Luhrmann masterpiece? Christian(McGregor), a young impressionable writer, flees to Paris against the wishes of his father, turning down his fortune to seek his Bohemian dream of love. There he meets Toulouse-Lautrec(John Leguizamo), who pulls him into a lifestyle of absinthe, Spectacular! Spectacular!, and Moulin Rouge. In the famous Parisian nightclub, he meets Satine(Kidman), a popular courtesan, whom he falls in love with. A powerful romance ensues, despite hazardous perils. Personally, I've seen this three times in the theatres and I'm still craving more of that thought-provoking picture. "Moulin Rouge" truly kidnaps all five senses and takes them for a ride, which is brought about by stunning fast-pace scenes, a simple but inviting plot, and beautiful performances by a great cast. Those scenes and that director. Baz Luhrmann never fails to impress people. Leave it to him to incorporate pop music ranging from David Bowie to Madonna in a turn of the century film! An image of an ostentatious Harold Zidler belting out Like a Virgin will forever be engraved in my mind. Also, another aspect of the film that was rather innovative and extraordinary was the mixing of scenes. We watch a passionate tango dance occuring in the Moulin Rouge at the same time as we view a rendezvous between the Duke and Satine. While both of these scenes hold enough on their own, the marriage between the two is stirring and attention grabbing. It also points out the nuisance of blinking. Though the storyline isn't anything new, creativity in other areas more than makes up for the predictability in the plot. For example, the acting in "Moulin Rouge" is remarkable. I have seen several movies that star the Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, and he always offers depth, charisma and poignant portrayals. "Moulin Rouge" is no exception for his impressive resume! His character, the sensitive, love-inflicted Bohemian writer Christian, is handsome, believable and devoted to the lovely yet doomed courtesan, Satine(played by the inspiring Nicole Kidman). Their love affair is naively pure and majestically brought about by the great chemistry between Kidman and McGregor. Another great actor in this film is the talented Jim Broadbent, who offers a humorous and captivating role as club's owner, Harold Zidler. His performance is truly one of the best I've witnessed this year in the cinema! He adds so many sides to his strident character that the movie would simply not be complete without him. The overflow of vivid emotion that other motion pictures miserably lack is blended with raw talent and amusing comedy to form "Moulin Rouge". This film leaves its' audiences craving more, driving a crash course into an insane atmosphere of the uninhibited onslaught of merging sensuality with sparks, then falling into the conclusion with a dazzling array of cinematography. Luhrmann has certainly outdone himself. I've not covered even half of the great points of this amazing movie, such as Ewan McGregor's spectacular singing voice or that operatic moon. There's only one solution to this disturbing problem - go see it, and immediately! But you must be aware that this wasn't made for historical purposes, or to rival a big action blockbuster. This is, simply and purely, "a story about love".
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Summary: Moulin Rouge is Mesmerizing
Review: Moulin Rouge completely capitvated me. I was drawn in by the pure fantasy - the story, the scenery, the singing and the fantastic acting of both Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. And Ewan's voice, WOW!! This movie has what so many movies lack these days, pure magic. If you want to be charmed, entertained, and inspired, see Moulin Rouge, over and over again. I can't say enough wonderful words to describe how moved I was by this movie. It really is fantastic!!
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Summary: OH MY DEAR LORDINESS!!!
Review: Moulin Rouge in one word? EEEP! OK, so that's not a real word. But whatever. I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! The music is splendiferous, the acting is great, the storyline is original, and Ewan McGregor is SUCH a good singer! I was totally amazed! I was also impressed by Nichole Kidman's musical ability. Who would have thought, eh? Young Christian (Ewan McGregor) comes to Paris in 1899 to write. It is the era of the Bohemian Revolution! He soon meets up with Toulouse Latrec (John Legizumo), our token gratuitous historical character. Toulouse, along with 3 other Bohemians, take Christian to the Moulin Rouge, a nightclub where the beautiful Satine (Nichole Kidman) is the star of the show. Christian falls in love immediately, and soon wins her love in return. All happiness and fluffiness, right? But there is a problem. A man known only as The Duke (he doesn't really have a name...), played by Richard Roxburgh, wants Satine all to himself. He signs a contract with Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge. The contract states that the Duke with provide money for Spectacular Spectacular (a Bohemian stage production written by none other than Christian) if Zidler will insure that Satine will be bound to him and him alone (the Duke, not Zidler). Zidler agrees, but Satine refuses to stop seeing Christian. Madness, musical numbers, and a death insues! I'm not saying who dies. But it's sad. I cried. But it was a GREAT movie!!! I would DEFINITELY recommend it to ANYONE!
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Summary: Seizure-inducing frenzy!
Review: Roger Ebert said it was like "being trapped in an elevator with the circus." One guy I know likened it to "an explosion at the peacock factory." And I agree with both. The film is a choppy, in-your-face blur of musical numbers that should send epileptics everywhere running. And if you take away all the hoopla of the music and the colors, you are left with a disappointingly ordinary plot. I do admire the balls Baz Luhrmann had when he decided to use songs such as "Like a Virgin" in such a bizarre way, but I still wouldn't recommend this film to anyone.
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