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Summary: Hurray for Baz Luhrman!
Review: I absolutely loved this movie! It has everything-true love, an evil villain, Ewan McGregor, crazy humor, Ewan McGregor, heart-wrenching drama, Ewan McGregor, great songs, Ewan McGregor...Anyway, it was good. Don't listen to the naysayers. If you have a heart, a sense of humor, a love of music, or any of the above, you will enjoy Moulin Rouge immensly. (and if you won't buy it for those things, buy it to see/hear that hot EWAN MCGREGOR!
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Summary: Better Than It Sounds!
Review: I was a little skeptical too when I saw the commercial. A movie musical with Nicole Kidman and the Star Wars guy? And yet, it turned out great! Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman actually have talent! Who would've thought? (Really, Ewan MacGregor should have taken up singing professionally. His voice could topple skyscrapers!) Though most of the songs here are just re-used, re-done pop hits, they fit the story very well. ("Your Song is the best! I rewind it about ten times whenever I watch this movie) The story is very unique. It manages to go from absolutely hilarious to tear-jerkingly serious. (If you don't cry at the end, you have no heart, and if you aren't rolling with laughter during the scene in Satine's elephant, you have no sense of humor) In short, great story, great songs, great actors, great show! Hurray for truth, beauty, freedom, love, and above all things, penniless sitar players!
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Summary: You Have To Watch It Twice...
Review: This is a wonderful movie. I simply adore it. However, the first time I watched it, I thought 'Okay, what exactly just happened?'
Most people who claim that it's difficult to understand, are right. It is, the first time, because you miss a lot of the little details that glue the entire movie together. Most of the people who disliked this movie, and found it plotless, just didn't understand the movie, I think.
It has a wonderful plot, but if it's your first time seeing it, you'll probably miss a lot of it. It's a fairly simple plot really, about a high-paid courtesan and a penniless poet. They fall in love, and the penniless poet must save his love from the 'Underworld'. You have to watch it. You may have to watch it twice. But I guarentee that once you understand all that's going on (not just the "big picture") you'll realize how wonderful the movie truly is.
BAZ IS GOD!
(Not to mention the wonderful eye candy presented by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, both of which have beautiful singing voices and do some award-winning acting in this movie.)
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Summary: Great movie; dreadful widescreen version.
Review: This movie is even better than its publicity. The color, music and acting by the stars are all above average. The writing for the secondary cast is poorly done. The widescreen version is one of the worst yet. The horizontal black bands take up as much space as the picture, even on a very large TV. The supplemental disc, not in the same widescreen, is superb all the way around and almost worth the price by itself.
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Summary: Teen girls can sigh and be proud!
Review: Oh my, I can see the appeal this movie has on young girls. Its got everything---and it almost looks like it was set up for them as an audience. Ugh. As an adult....eeew. I found this movie hard to sit through. I was disappointed that all the songs seemed to be taken from other sources. No originals---would we put up with an original musical, however, nowadays? Yes, the whole movie is eyecandy, the story is the sappy story of love and all that and the obstacles against them. Sweet story. Yes yes. And the whole dying scene was overdone, overplayed. It was just---too romantic for me? Dare I say that? I just wasn't impressed. I guess I didn't get it. Satine's name even looks like its spelled wrong.
The whole premise: a bohemian dude shows up at the Moulin Rouge and falls for the courtesan, Satine ie Nicole Kidman. Always gorgeous yet cold. He has never fallen in love. Boo hoo. Well, they fall in love. But the duke! He must have her! The evil duke must have whats mine! The young lovers meet behind the dukes back, tee hee. Then the scenario builds to its finale, Satine is dying, oh the drama! If you are between the ages of 7-27, I believe you'll love this movie. Don't get me wrong, I cried in the end too, but boy was I glad it was over! Yeehaw!
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Summary: Pure Theatre
Review: Moulin Rouge is theatre as it should be. It is a feast for the senses, an enthralling and captivating spectacle that entertains, exhilarates, and grips the emotions. This is more than a movie: It is an experience. On more than one occasion I almost wanted to rise to my feet and applaud. For this reviewer, at least, Moulin Rouge was an absolute riot. For those who think the musical genre could never work again, save in the context of a Disney cartoon: Think again. The movie-musical receives here a glorious resurrection. Musical numbers are pulled off with style, wit and imagination, and the tongue is never far from the inside cheek, meaning that we never feel we are watching a movie that belongs to an earlier time. Tunes are drawn from an entire century or more of music, often hilariously executed (if I tell you that Madonna's Like a Virgin is staged in the mode of a show-stopping, toe-tapping Broadway musical number, you will gain an idea of the general tenor of the picture). The film's terrifically old-fashioned conventions are given a modern lilt, and are met with a refreshing and creative energy at the hands of veteran director, Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet). Shades of Shakespeare are everywhere seen. Stylistically, we are in the surreal world of Jeunet and Caro (Delicatessen, Amelie). Musically, this is in a category of its own, quite unparalleled. Don't be fooled into thinking this is nothing more than a cracked attempt at a musical revue. That was exactly the impression I had from the trailers, and it was with suspicion and hesitation that I rented this movie, at the recommendation of a friend. I wasn't to be disappointed: I had tremendous fun watching Moulin Rouge, and hope you will too.
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Summary: !!!
Review: it was a great movie if you can sit through songs. (which i can) my heart was with it the whole way. the fact that ewan mcgregor and nicole kidman actually sang it makes it all the more better. great movie. ~imlossiel
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Summary: The greatest thing you'll ever learn.....
Review: A wonderful, fun place to be if you are in the mind set of those in the movie. The extravagance enhances the drama and makes you believe in love. Fun and tragic in an exaggerated scope of overindulgence- get lost in the story and feel the characters lives, all of them. It will teach you another lesson of how to accept that all of us, all the world is connected. What will you do with that knowledge?
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Summary: I must've missed something
Review: This movie was highly recommended, so my wife and I watched it on VHS. The most positive comment between the two of us was, "Well, it got...better". Musicals are allowed some creative license, and I generally applaud attempts to be creative and unique. But, I watched Moulin Rouge feeling as if someone came up with a hundred unrelated creative ideas and then force-fed them to the audience through an otherwise cliched plot vehicle of forbidden love. Furthermore, many of the more original effects (such as the jerky camera movements) were so badly overused that they became obnoxious. The movie constantly makes very abrupt changes between sappy melodrama and Vaudeville-type slapstick, which makes any attachment with the movie difficult. It's hard to feel too much emotion for the dying heroine when you're watching grown men singing "Like a Virgin" to one another (incidently, that was THE single dumbest scene I've ever watched; I felt genuine pity for the actors). After several months, I still have no idea what the purpose of this movie was. It seemed to want to glorify pop culture and make fun of it at the same time. I think what bothered me most about this movie was that it should have caused me to feel SOMETHING for the characters, yet I found myself generally unconcerned about their fates. My only emotion at the movie's end was despair over those two hours of my life I'd never get back.
Rating: 
Summary: I've seen better on lower budgets.
Review: Rent it, don't buy it. Not something I've watch again anytime soon.
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