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Summary: Ewan Mcgregor! Need I say more?
Review: What a cool movie! I really liked the style. I was afraid based on the music video sleeze of the Lady Marmalide quartete that it would be tacky, but praise God not! Ewan Mcgregor a singer who would of thought. But as a leading man definitely! He is sexy plus innocent in this role. I love this movie! It is our Wizard of Oz for our generation.
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Summary: This is MTV hell
Review: Nicole & Ewan do terrific impersonations of Ann-Margret & Donny Osmond. Respectively, by the way. Very Vegas.
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Summary: WOW! Best movie ever since Show Girls!
Review: Anybody out there know what CONTEXT means? Well, OK, for the 98% of you out there still scratching your hairdos, it's what is totally absence from this hollywood O-D experience, a mechanical production from beginning to end, touring through 100 years of pop music with all the over-speeded charm of a 42nd street live porn show. This is the audio-visual equivalent of too much acid & speed taken at the same time by the wrong person. MAJOR DOO-DOO!
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Summary: The Worst and Best Movie of All Time
Review: If I could, I'd give this movie 1 star for the first half, and 5 stars for the second half. The first half of the movie was absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen. Styled like a hyper MTV music video, the actors behave like demented live action Warner Brother's cartoons. Did no one tell them that only cartoon characters can get away with this? While Baz Luhrman excels in tragic stories, he has no comic sensibilities. In the first part of the movie he strains to be comic, and each of these hyper comic moments falls flat and took me out of the story. Strangely the commentary suggests that this was his intent!? Though their mantra was "everything in the service of the story," they did a lot of other things visually and musically in the first half that completely distracted from the story. Having a strong urge to leave, but remembering the astonishing final scene in his Romeo + Juliet, I hung in there hoping to catch a few visual gems. About half way though the movie my patience finally paid off, and it began to take the story seriously and become an astonishing work of cinematic art. I was completely swept away by the story, and everything worked in complete service to the story, I mean everything from the acting, dancing, singing, cinematography and editing. In the end I absolutely loved it, but it was also the worst movie ever. To reconcile my love and revulsion for this movie, I've split the movie in half. When I show it to friends, I give them I little prologue to establish the story and start with the second half, and they love it too.
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Summary: Love it or hate it...........
Review: I sat down to watch this film, as my girlfriend loves it, and I had heard quite a few things about it, at both ends of the spectrum. After sitting through two hours of an awful story that was blatantly lifted from "Shakespeare in Love," I was in a bad mood. I realized I had seen what I consider to be one of the three worst films of all time. Now, people who are more into visuals and less into story will like this, as the visuals are fairly interesting. The music was interesting, since it was one medley after another, but I didn't find any of them very compelling or moving. The cast was great, but couldn't do much with such a cliche script. If I had my choice, I'd bury the master reel of this film at the bottom of the ocean, and pray that no other human has to endure the two hours of spoon fed schlock that I did. Some will claim to enjoy this film, but I just can't see how. It's reall, really bad.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Neither my husband nor I enjoyed this movie. It was too fragmented, like looking into a kaleidoscope, although with a kaleidoscope, one can at least freeze the image long enough to get a good look at it. And who could care about these characters? Bring back "Gigi." Bring back "My Fair Lady." Bring back Astaire and Rogers.
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Summary: Best Movie of 2001 all Categories
Review: I have to admit I was rather skeptical before buying this DVD. I never saw this movie when it was in the theathres. Just heard all kinds of good, as well as bad things, about it. I finally got the DVD for my birthday and I have to say this movie is one of the top 10 flicks of all time. It really blew me away. Not so much the story or the plot, but rather the way the story was told. I haven't really seen anything like it. Talk about groudbreaking film making. The music, the scenery, the colorful charaters, the costumes, it all rocked! I really apprecited how the movie also had a sense of humor about itself (the Like a Virgin number, the sometimes quirky dialog etc). Great acting by Nicole, Ewan, and the rest of the esemble. If the Acadamy has any integrity left (after rewarding such awful movies like Shakespare in Love and The English Patient), they would give Moulin Rouge the Oscar for best movie. Nicole Kidman got a well desrved best actress nod (about flippin time). Anyways, in short: best movie of the year. By the way, the DVD got hours and hours of really cool extras. Buy it!
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Summary: Hell Yeah!
Review: This was one of the best movies I have ever seen. The singing was amazing, the acting was awesome. It was well put together and fun to watch.
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Summary: Come what may
Review: This movie blew me away. I didn't expect anything really wonderful from the previews, but I rented the DVD based on the word of friends. After watching it, all I have to say is wow! Baz Luhrmann is some kind of genius to create such an appealing storyline against such a fantastic backdrop. The DVD itself was great. It includes the making of the movie, interviews with the stars, and a music video featuring a remix of the beautiful song "Come What May." Take my word on this one: Moulin Rouge is a movie for the keeper shelf.
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Summary: They call this a musical?
Review: What in God's name has happened to Hollywood. What has happened to all the wonderful talent that they use to have? How can Hollywood call this a musical??The musical numbers are very chopy, the acting is something like i've never seen before,,,,,,,UNTALENTED people!!!I really hope this isn't the new direction that Hollywood is taking in new movie musicals because if it is "they don't have a clue."If you read my review of "Dolly" and i gave that "1-star", this would be a minus "100". And this is going up for an award? I'm affraid the days of american good movie musicals are over. Watch the classic musicals and you'll have a much better time.
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