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Summary: If you love musicals and Baz, you'll love Moulin Rouge!!!
Review: This movie is fabulous! The music, characters, costumes, story line, everything! It is wonderful how they integrated modern music into a story that takes place over a hundred years ago. The soundtrack is very catchy - I downloaded all the songs after watching - and Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman have spectacular voices. I've heard that people will either love or hate this movie, and I certainly felt the former. If you love musicals, Baz's work (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet, etc.) then you will love Moulin Rouge as well.
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Summary: Remarkably inventive
Review: I was very reluctant to see this film, primarily because so many people had so many negative things to say about it. But see it I did. And I was astounded at just how good it was. What I find incredible is that the always-frosty Nicole Kidman has garnered all the accolades while precious little has been said about Ewan McGregor. Yet it is McGregor who is the very soul of this film; it is his heartfelt performance that gives the film its depth. On top of that, he can actually sing, and with, again, great feeling.The blending of original tunes written especially for the film (and, shockingly, not nominated for an Academy Award for best song) and previously recorded songs is very powerful--none moreso than the Sting tune, Roxanne, intercut with another number performed as an exquisitely danced, emotionally fraught tango. Director Luhrmann knows his territory and covers it very well indeed. The dance sequences are frantic, even mad; the sets and costumes are brilliant--both in conception and in color. This is a film that fills the senses; there is so much going on, even in the quieter scenes, that it warrants being viewed several times. Particularly powerful is McGregor's climactic scene with the dying Kidman. Here is an actor who endows even the rather asexual Kidman with his own heat. There are a lot of reviews posted with declarations of dislike for this movie. I suspect they were written by people who were expecting to see something like a 1950's MGM musical. Moulin Rouge is a musical for now; a rendering of a classic tale done by the likes of Puccini and Verdi--all variations on La Dame aux Camellias--the naive young man who falls in love with a courtesan only to lose her to consumption. This is very worth seeing. Approached with an open mind, it's a feast for the senses. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Moulin Rouge
Review: This is unmistakenly the best movie I have ever seen. In the first 10 minutes it assaults all your senses, with nerve wracking pleasure. Just keep an open mind and your eyes open and absorb all the motion, music, sounds and its beauty. If you can't get this movie out of your mind then it did its job. This is truly an exciting movie
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Summary: What a waste...
Review: of time and money. This has to be one of the worst films ever made. I agree with a lot of reviewers here that this movie has very little plot and the musical numbers???? They are all 70's or 80's songs that really have no place in Paris 1900! I watched this movie with my wife and another couple and they wanted to turn it off halfway thorough, but I said it HAS to get better let's keep watching it. WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How anybody can think this is a good movie is beyond me. The first 20 minutes the camera is moving so fast and is always at some kind of angle (like the old Batman TV series) that as soon as you turn your head the camera moves again. Halfway through the film all of us where laughing at how stupid this movie is. HOW and WHY this movie was ever made will always be a mystery. The acting is horrible! Nicole Kidman can't act and now can't sing( if she ever could)! Ewan McGregor kept looking like he didn't want to be there! John Leguizamo as the Dwarf was unbearable! If you like to get headaches and like really stupid movies, like "Dude, where's my car?" then this movie is for you! One star is too many for this movie! WORST!!!!!!!
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Summary: Nod bad but I didn't like it.
Review: Pros: The directing was very interesting at times. Jim Broadbent (Zidler) was absolutely brilliant and a joy to watch as usual, except the 'Show Must Go On' sequence - the music choice was so obvious that it was almost painful that the director went for it (I like Queen a lot but...). Ewan McGregor - great actor for this kind of directing style, simply loved him. Nice costumes - almost as good as Topsy Torvy costumes. Cinematography was nothing but spectacular. Cons: So called 'Love Story' didn't work at all. Nicole Kidman's performance and appearance was weak (not her fault though, just a poor director's choice). Constant 80's pop (and very much so) music was annoying (some spoken lyrics were funny though). At the end, the film's "energetic" style mixed with tedious attempts to make the audience feel for the lovers started to get on my nerves and I found myself turning my eyes off the screen to ease the embarrassment. I really wish she chose the Maharaja. Bottom line: I didn't like it. A few very good ideas and two brilliant actors (Broadbent, McGregor) alone couldn't save this film.
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Summary: Worth it!
Review: Buy it today! It's a great movie and an even better DVD. It has two discs filled with extras. Don't miss out on this one. It'll make a great addition to your DVD library. The performances are top notch and believable. The music is catchy and fun. The director is one of the best directors in Hollywood. The story is trite but with the new twist it makes it exciting, and the pace is upbeat, fast and a thrilling ride. I highly recommend!
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Summary: Don't let the first 10 minutes fool you. GREAT MOVIE!
Review: QUESTION? How can you rate a movie in ten minutes? ANSWER? You can't! I will admit, I was asking myself "Where is this movie taking me?" Glad I stayed with it, beautiful story. I never liked Nicole Kidman till this movie. The best part is all the great songs from Elton John, Madonna to Kiss this movie packs them in. It made me laugh and drop a tear or two. Know wonder its up for so many awards. I'll be hoping my new favorite star Nicole takes home an Oscar for this roll in which she deserves. Plus Kylie as the Green Fairy! Thumbs way up!
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Summary: One of the worst films ever made !!!
Review: I cannot imagine how Nicole Kidman was conned into
acting in this absolute farce! Unless you are in
the 10-14 year old age range, OR you are prepared for a
2 hour movie with the maturity level and plot complexity
of a music video
--- This film is a ***complete*** waste of your time! It is in the same league with Bugs Bunny meets Michael
Jordan and films like that. Some of the dance sequences
would be more appropriate in a horror movie, or some
wierd sort of a "Rocky Horror Picture Show"-esque,
hideous film. Maybe this film was made by someone who absolutely hates
the real Moulin Rouge, and wants everyone else to hate
it as well. I have seen thousands of films, 5% I loved, 90% I
mostly enjoyed. Only 2 ever got a bad review from me:
Eraserhead and Moulin Rogue.
This film makes me want to vomit!
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Summary: My favorite movie, EVER
Review: I'm not one to go for the hype of a movie, so it was to my great suprise how much I LOVED this movie. I never saw it in the theatre, but rented it one day. I started watching it and it took awhile, but it grabbed me, and did not let go for the entire movie.
Nicole Kidman is wonderful, and a very good singer. Her acting in this movie is as good as any Oscar winning performance I have ever seen. I hope my husband doesn't see this, but I am so in love with Ewan McGregor now it's a little silly. He also is great in this movie and is so attractive and sexy, it's a bit unfair.
I hope everyone gives this movie a chance!
P.S. Baz Lurhmann was truely robbed by not being nominated for this film
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Summary: Slightly Weird but a Great Movie
Review: I loved Moulin Rouge! it has a great plotline. Christian a writer goes to France to well...write. There he agrees to write the script for a play Spetacular Spectacular. They play is going to be preformed at the Moulin Rouge. There he meets Satine, The Sparklind Diamond of the Moulin rouge. They fall in love but hve to hide it because she is the star of the Moulin Rouge and the Duke, blackmails Harold, the owner to sign an agreement so literally he "oens Satine. The movie has a lot of great music and dancing. It certaintly deserved all the awards it got! It was kind of weird at times (like when Christian and his friends get drunk so they see a fairy) but it was honestly great!
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