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Summary: Words cannot express how good this movie is.
Review: I had a feeling I'd like this movie when I saw the trailers for it, but I had no idea that it would completely blow me away. Every aspect of this movie is incredible. Baz Lurhmann combines spectacular theatrics with a tender love story. Nicole Kidman is fabulous as the lovely cabaret singer Satine, but Ewan McGregor is the real star of this movie. He has one of the most incredible voices I've ever heard and could easily abandon his acting career to start a rock band. The supporting cast is outstanding, especially Jim Broadbent as the MC/owner of the Moulin Rouge and Richard Roxburgh as the slimy Duke who will do just about anything to get Satine for himself.People have complained that this movie is "all over the place." I've read reviews that gripe about the spinning camera shots and the fact that none of the music is original. What is WRONG with these people?! The fact that music from so many different genres is represented in this film is what makes it so brilliant! Even though the film is set in the 1890s, people are belting out classic Madonna and Elton John standards right and left, and it totally works with the environment that Luhrmann has created. The unconventional camera shots help to illustrate the glitzy and glamourous world that these people have created for themselves at the Moulin Rouge. Nothing about this movie is annoying, it's unique and incredible. People who aren't very open-minded when it comes to originality probably would disagree with me, but too bad. It's their loss. This two-disc DVD set is also one of the best Special Edition DVDs that I've ever seen. The design elements of the menus have the same flashy style as the movie itself, and there are a ton of entertaining bonus features. This is definitely a movie to add to your collection.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I am a big movie buff but this was as shallow as a puddle. I have never walked out of a movie at the theatre but I couldn't sit through another minute of this one. It had the maturity for children but the sexual content for adults. It was zipping all over the place and I felt like I was watching an old B movie.!!!SUCKED!!!(...)
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Summary: What energy
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect when I went with a couple of friends to see Moulin Rouge in the theater. We all came away feeling blown away. Even today I can visualize The Duke, during the "Like a Virgin" segment, looking into the camera and quiveringly explaining "Feels so good inside..." and it makes me laugh. I am quite pleased with the DVD version, although my only complaint is that the menus are a little hard to navigate. They just aren't that intuitive and, for example, to find the "Vouslez-Vous" Lil Kim, et al, video you really have to dig deep. Overall though, this is a fun energy filled movie, quite worth watching repeatedly, especially for some of the musical numbers.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!! AN EXCELLENT MOVIE!!!
Review: This film is a pure love story that will leave you crying in the end. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor were excellent in this film. I recommend Moulin Rouge to everyone. A BRILLIANT FILM!!!
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Summary: Exceeded Low Expectations, in the Worst Way
Review: Extremely disappointed with this. The setting, Paris at the turn of the century, might have been so colorful, and instead it was Just Another Baz Boobscape; he needs to step outside of himself a little bit, and approach the realization that not everybody sees the world through his lens of tawdrified sexuality. The people on the Extra Features keep repeating that Baz is supposedly a great story-teller, so that you wonder if they believe it, simply because they keep repeating it to themselves. Baz doesn't get anywhere near telling a story; he is content with throwing together a quilt of cliché. Somehow, he seems to suppose that he is doing something "new and brilliant," where there isn't an idea in the whole of Moulin Rouge that doesn't come from either Vegas, or Lloyd Webber - neither of them what you would call a great artistic role model. There is (or at any rate, was) actual talent in Baz; you can see it in "Strictly Ballroom." But he needs an editor (or some other externally applied self-criticism faculty). Pacing is appalling; he alternates between rushing through an absence of narration, and tedious driving the same shtick into the ground. The presentation is not stylized, as the commentary would have you believe; only a cobbling out of shredded pop platitude. "The Boy" spouts five pop-song lines about love, inviting us to consider how deep his understanding of love is ... well, exactly ... sets the tone for the whole. Baz also tries to stretch Elton John's "Your Song" out to Mahlerian dimensions, at a stroke setting a new benchmark for Bloat. If his goal was to create an audience who cringe involuntarily whenever they hear the phrase, "It's a little bit funny," then perhaps the movie might be considered a kind of Pavlovian success. Best acting in the film was Jim Broadbent. Ewan MacGregor wasn't bad, it is only that his character is two-dimensional at fullest, a role which hardly made any demands on him; his voice is fair, but monochrome, too consistently giving a just-this-side-of-strained sound, which wears, in a movie which would make wearisomeness a virtue. It is hard to believe that Nicole Kidman is dying of consumption, another failed bit of storytelling on Baz's part (hint: since so much of the movie is blue-ish tint, the audience has no clue that a certain two minutes of blue tint is supposed to imbue Kidman with Consumptive Pallor). We might feel sorry for their thwarted love, if only we could believe that there was actual love there, where there was only a kind of pop-song medley. Toulouse Lautrec might have been an interesting cultural element of the movie, only Baz trivializes him into just another dwarf element in little more than a visual circus. The comic-book shallowness, which in "Strictly Ballroom" is charmingly transcended ... is ineluctable Narrative Death in "Moulin Rouge." We saw this for professional reasons, and had hoped for rather better. It is with genuine sorrow that we acknowledge that we need never see it again.
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Summary: HA HA HA sniffle (tear)
Review: This wacky musical will have you laughing histarically one minute and crying the next. This touching love story will have everyone in tears.
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Summary: Amazing, really amazing film!
Review: When I first learnt about MR, I didn't want to see it. I thought it was something else and I don't like durty movies. but then, when it came on DVD, I borrowed it and saw it. It was so amazing how my opinion can change for something. I was tottaly charmed by the songs, the talent the actors had, and the atmosphere of the film. It began with happiness, fun and laugh, but then, the part of the tragedy came... When you first see the begging, you think "It will be more fun than I thought". But when the tragedy comes, then you don't have to think anything cauze everything is on the screen. It is one of the greatest musicals ever, in my opinion. It will teach you lot's of things and some of them will stay in your heart for ever...If you really want to know the true meaning of the film, then you must not lose a sentence from it. Every word has a different meaning.
I think even you don't like most of musicals, you might like this one. I don't like so much musicals and when I saw MR, I got obsessed with everything in it. It has something different for all the other films, something you will manage to find yourself. It is a sad romantic film and it can describe love.
Another thing that touched me was the music. The words, the phrases...they all have something they hide. And of course the wonderful tango Roxanne, one of people's favourite scene...
You must see it.
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Summary: MR
Review: I think that MR is one of the best musicals I have seen in long time, and MR is also Baz's best movie.
The movie starts with wild dance scenes and fast editing until the other part that ends up with tragedy.
There is new versions of classic songs like 'Lady Marmalade', 'Like A Virgin' and 'Roxanne', while 'Zidler's Rap' and 'Can Can Can' is some of the new songs.
Forget about Lord Of The Rings - FOTR, and watch MR instead, there is more excitement.
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Summary: Gruellin' Fugue
Review: This was, in my opinion, another of those unreasonably hyped films and this holds especially for Indian audiences who are already used to and saturated with the entire concept of a song-n-dance extravaganza taking the place of narrative.
The visuals are impressive, no doubt; the huge sets are awash in eye-candy and the camera's numerous swoops and pans take your breath away...for the first 10 minutes. After this you realize that the film is moving in a kind of loop with the same cycle of shots trying to claim your attention for its entire duration. There's just so much you can appreciate of popular songs being woven (in frequently mangled form) to fit into the groove of this musical. The film misses the tremendous cinematic value of contrast between the reality of Parisian street-life and the glitzy illusions of its music halls. The performances are pretty much of the cardboard n' candy-floss variety trademarked by ye typical Hollywood studio romance flick. Nicole Kidman is irritatingly out-of-place and Ewan MacGregor appears to have completely discarded his Trainspotting roots. Supporting characters are uniformly ridiculous, with John Leguziamo asking to be strangled with barbed wire for his clumsy portrayal of Toulouse Lauterec, the sensitive artist whose illustrations were in no small way responsible for the fame of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. Jim Broadbent as the freaked out owner Lidler is good in an over-the-top way for some of the scenes.
Even 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet', never in itself a great film scores higher on my list than this self-indulgent tripe. Pass me another aspirin.
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Summary: That's entertainment!
Review: Too often musicals on film fall back to the long shot/proscenium arch style of moviemaking in order to show chorus lines of dancers doing their stuff. Other times they have been all close-ups and no dancing or performing skill. I assumed this movie might bore me for any number of reasons, but the opposite is true. I've seen it several times now and several things strike me -- the musical arrangements and "medleys" are outstanding, the art direction is exciting, and the story, which is tragic, is nevertheless compelling. I really like this movie. The rock music, some of it re-interpreted for the pure voices of Kidman and MacGregor, is enthralling and exciting, and that is the best part. My favorite section is the intertwining of "Lady Marmalade" and a classic punk rock number during the chaotic dance hall establishing sequence, with "We Can be Heroes" a close second, but there are many others to choose from. Visually and in choreographic terms Moulin Rouge reminds me of one of Fellini's color films. But this film is absolutely much more accessible to a modern American mainstream audience. Everything technical about this movie -- the pace of the editing, the acting, the music, the camera, the lighting -- is a treat. Complaining that this is not an original score is like saying there should be no Oscar for "best screenplay based on material from another medium." The music as re-interpreted to tell this movie's story is positively moving. It is quite possible that people are sometimes running this DVD at home for its audio alone. It's my favorite musical since Cabaret.
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