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Summary: Still in shock. . .
Review: This movie COMPLETELY blew me away. I've never been into musicals, and only went to see it because I was forced by a musical-addict friend of mine. I can hardly express how wonderful it was in words! This is not your typical musical, or movie for that matter. I have never seen anything else like it. It has a fast paced style and is filled with color, a visual masterpiece. At times, the camera moves almost too fast, but it just reaches the limit with a wonderful perfection. It's funny and it also makes you cry. The songs were absolutely wonderful!! Nicole Kidman pulls it all off, and Ewan McGregor is perfect. Their voices and the songs top off the entire movie, making it my new favorite. You'd think they both had sung their whole lives. The CD is one of my favorites, too. I had to see the movie again the next day, and can't wait till the video comes out. I beg you all to see it, you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: The ultimate victory of vapid style over substance
Review: From even before the opening credits this is one the most self-absorbed, self-referential, "hey, look at me and what I can do!" pieces of film I've ever seen.The story, such as it is, is hackneyed. The camera-work would give even an MTV producer motion sickness. The characters are crude stereotypes. The performances are, at best, mediocre. And the music? Well, it was sort of cute the first time these turn of the century folks belted out a top 40 tune. But the fifth time McGregor launched into a tortured, whispered cover of Elton John's "Your Song," well, it was time to get out.
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Summary: A Modern Musical Masterpiece
Review: Let me first start out by prefacing what I have to say with: this is a movie that either you will love or you will hate. If you go into it with the understanding that you are going to see a musical, your appreciation for what it is might increase. Baz Lurhman does a wonderful job at not just forming the world in which this story takes place, but developing the atmosphere surrounding the story. The story is what many people might consider basic by today's standards. True, it doesn' t have crazy, often times dizzying twists and turns that many of today's modern stories have. It is a rather simplistic story, as were in many of the musicals of old that are loved such as "Singing In The Rain." The music, though not from the timeframe of the movie, compliments the storyline, which is what music in a musical is supposed to do. The biggest misconception that people have about this film is that it is not like a lot of today's modern movies and love stories... and they are right. It isn't supposed to be. It is a musical story about one of our most basic, yet often complicated, and always prized emotions... love. It is a visually stunning masterpiece that incorperates all the positives of the musicals from the past, simple yet interesting storyline, good music, strong, multilayered characters, and adds in todays modern imagery, to create what should be hailed as a resounding sucess of a film.
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Summary: NO OTHER MOVIE LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: If you have read all the reveaws, you know that there is one that, needless to say the person didn't like it. Well, let me tell you that I went to see it 4 times, and my friend went to see it 7 times. Everyone that went to see it raved about it. People even came up to me at the theaters telling me to go see it, I went up to people and told them about it! I have never seen a movie with such good cam work, sound, color, music!!!!!!
And the love story!!! All I can say is, watch it for yourself.
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Summary: This is cinema
Review: It's so good you'll eat crow when you DO see it after you missed it, dissed it, or avoided it at the show. In a day and age of big dumb epics, useless cartoons and CGI wunderkinds, this is the kind of film you should definitely want to pay to see at least five times.
Avoid negative critics on this lush masterpiece and watch it once to truly understand the word 'visionary'
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Summary: Moulin Rouge 2001
Review: This is definitely Oscar calibre. I loved Kidman's character, her story's irony and its romantic twist.
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Summary: The best movie ever
Review: This is my absolute favorite movie. It's full of color and music. I'm a big fan of Nicole Kidman and that was the reason I saw this movie. Her singing was amazing and so was Ewan McGregor's. This is a must-see film if you're into musicals and romance. I can't wait to own it on video and watch it over and over again.
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Summary: A Visual Triumph From Baz Luhrmann.A Fabulous Modern Musical
Review: As soon as Nicole Kidman starts belting out Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend [she actually sings quite good!], you know she deserves at least an oscar nomination ! If better, the actual award itself! With her performance in The Others aswell as this great movie, she leaves all those visions of Mrs Tom Cruise far behind her. Her career will not rot away like another certain divorce [namely Bruce and....well Demi Moore]. A naive poet named Christian [EWAN MCGREGOR] arrives in the town of Montmartre in 1899 to become part of the Bohemian Revolution! He accidently takes part in a modern play called Spectacular Spectacular which just happens to be involved with a certain Toulouse Lautrec [A delightfully campy John Leguizamo].Impressed by his performance, Toulouse and co. take him to the Moulin Rouge to 'audition' for a beautiful courtesan named Satine [our Nicole]. She mistakes him for a slightly gay 'Duke' [Richard Roxburgh] and they instantly fall in love admist flashy can-can courtesans and under the watchful eye of Harold Zidler [Jim Broadbent]. But their love cannot last forever so will they face up to reality or keep their love alive till SHOWTIME.... If I had to be picky, I would say that Moulin Rouge was a tad overlong and it had too many characters that just weren't interesting enough....Harold Zidler and The Duke being two. Yet who REALLY can pick out faults in such a beautiful movie?? The set designs and all [yes ALL] the songs were near perfect. Miss Nicole Kidman will be around for VERY long time... I GUARANTEE YOU THAT! 5 OUT OF 5
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Summary: Don't be sucked in by the high rating
Review: I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the high ratings this movie got here and at IMDb! Don't be sucked in by this. I believe that all the people who loved this movie wrote a review, and most of those who disliked it didn't bother. The hysterical hype surrounding this movie would have it that people laughed, cried, clapped and generally had epiphanies when they saw the movie. All I can say is, the packed audience that I say it with was as underwhelmed as I was! Down to the nitty gritty: Plot: young poet (McGregor) goes to Paris and falls in love with performer (Kidman) at the Moulin Rouge, much to the displeasure of the influential Duke who's fixated with her. There's not much else to the plot! Acting: Ewan McGregor's character is one dimensional, but he is very endearing and earnest in his performance. The loving way he looks at Satine is very moving. Kidman fares less well. She makes a stunning entry, but her annoyingly twitchly performance has surprising litlle impact for all that she tries too hard. She's easily the most forgettable thing in the film, and it's hard to feel anything for her character, such as it is. Singing & Dancing: Ewan's voice is quite attractive for the most part, although it's deficiencies sometimes shows. Kidman's weak voice is painfully obvious when she has to cope with more demanding songs than "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend". There is hardly any real dancing in the movie apart from some bumping and grinding. Production Values: very good. Sets and costumes are sumptuous, as expected. Visual Style: MTV watch out! The director likes to move the camera... a lot! Music: There's been a lot of talk about how innovative the music is. It isn't. Basically, old hits are recycled in new ways, which makes the film less orignal that the Astaire/Rogers movies Overall, this was a moderately entertaining movie that doesn't deserve the praise or condemnation that is has received. It can drag in some places, and isn't original, innovative or
controversial in any way. Take the gushing reviews you read here with a large pinch of salt, and you might enjoy Moulin Rouge.
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Summary: Moulin Rouge: Best of 2001
Review: How often do you go to see a movie and come out feeling your expectations have been exceeded? It probably only happens to me once or twice a year and I love seeing and watching movies. I have seen no other movie that comes close to this Baz Luhrmann film. "Moulin Rouge" is a new spin on old idea - the movie musical. From the opening set-piece at the Moulin Rouge, an amazing set-piece of complex choreography, involving a cast of hundreds singing and dancing to a sequence of pop/rock "classics", including such diverse songs as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Madonna's "Material Girl" seamlessly segued together, Moulin Rouge is nothing short of wonderful. Ewan McGregor (Christian) excels in this unlikely role- considering the roles that made him a big name- but it's Nicole Kidman (Satine) who adds the searing heat that makes this a love story more than a splashy period musical original from the opening credits to the closing credits. Moulin Rouge is a rarity in Hollywood movies, a daring original. To have avoided this being a disaster, the filmmakers had to align performance, music, and cinematography perfectly. And they did Basic Plot: A young writer by the name of Christian (Ewan Mc.Gregor) arrives in Paris in search of inspiration which inevitably leads him to the Moulin Rouge. There he meets Satine (Nicole Kidman), an elegant courtesan and the star of attraction of the Moulin Rouge, who mistakes the young writer for the very rich Duke of Worcester and Christian and Satine fall in love. But of course their love is not without complication, as Satine's affections have already been promised to the Duke and the lovers have to embark on a secret love affair... Also, the soundtrack is incredible. It's one of the only ones besides the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack to go platinum. Give it a try, and of course, see this wonderful movie.
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