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Summary: This was SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR!
Review: I just got back from seeing this movie at the theatre and I can't put into words how good it is. If you don't like musicals, you shouldn't go see this--it is very much a modern day musical. Nicole Kidman proves to be a magician of many tricks once again. Her talent is heightened to a new level. Ewan McGregor shines very brightly, even in the light of Ms. Kidman. He is gorgeous and talented, all in one. They both have extremely pleasant voices to listen to. All in all, everything was awesome, to say the least. Be ready for continual business on the screen-- your eyes really don't get a break throughout the movie. The plot moved along nicely, not lacking for anything, not dragging. I didn't once look at my watch, like I do in many recent movies. As soon as this comes out to pre-order, I'll be ordering it! It is a MUST HAVE in every music-buff's collection!
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Summary: People can be so mean
Review: Maybe I'm just weird but, I've always prefered tragic love to the happily ever after scenario. Moulin Rouge is weird, but I'm a weird person, so I liked it.
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Summary: SPECTACULAR
Review: best movie i have ever watched.
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Summary: Best Movie of the Year
Review: I have to say, I was a bit sceptical going into this movie. After all, Ewan McGregor, Singing? However, I was instantly impressed with this film. It carries on with the example set by 1996's Evita. The singing was great and all the actors had great voices. Also, it was greatly entertaining. One moment your laughing, the next your dumbstruck from the drama. Think of it as a "Shakespeare in Love" with music. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are perfect together. I have to say, this has to be the best movie of the year so far, including "Shrek." :-)
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Summary: It's a movie that shocks you and yet, you love it!
Review: I did not want to see this movie when I first heard about, saw the previews, and heard "Lady Marmalade". But after realizing that I recognized actors/actresses in the movie, I decided to go see it with a friend. I must say, this movie was one in a million. No, it will never be a classic, but it is definetly a movie you have to see. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor were brillant and the music was the best! I never expected the lead characters to sing in the movie, nor did I expect it to be more like a musical drama than just a drama. Heart-breaking and hillarious, shocking and suprising, "Moulin Rouge" is a movie a highly recommend to anyone who loves great romances. This movie is nothing short of one.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!...
Review: Moulin Rouge is EXCELLENT!!!... This film is by far the best film of the year. The performances by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are great. They have great chemistry and can really sing well. I came into this movie thinking it would be dumb, because of the current music and the storyline, but I LOVED this film. All the performances were great, and so were the musical montages. I must say that Baz Luhrman does a great job with expressing his vision, if only hollywood would have more director's like that, than we would have great films. I applaud Baz Luhrman, Nicole Kidman, and Ewan McGregor for making this wonderful film. I really hope that this film might get some mild attention form the Academy Awards. Everyone must see this film, it is absolutely GREAT!!!...
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Summary: A visual rollercoaster of pleasing proportions
Review: Moulin Rouge is Rocky Horror meets The Wizard of Oz meets Princess Bride. It's a fantastic / fantastical movie that is a strange and fun musical romp. There was good chemistry between MacGregor and Kidman, and I didn't think that the movie suffered from lack of plot. It wasn't The Usual Suspects, but it wasn't meant to be. The cinematography is very stylized, but it all works within the context of what's happening. The sets are opuluent, the cast is great, and the music is just fun. You'll find yourself laughing over and over. Roxanne and Like A Virgin were great moments. It really is well-worth going to see if you are of an age that you have 70's and 80's music permanently ingrained in your memory. I will buy the DVD as soon as it's out.
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Summary: A Very Misguided And Misconceived Musical
Review: Take one bag of cliched plotlines, dress it up in saccarine sentiments and hammy acting and some very faux-profound pop lyrics and edit the whole thing to death ... and you end up with Moulin Rouge. When the Ziegler character broke into a chorus of "Like a Virgin" I just cringed and wanted to dissapear into my seat. To be totally frank, I couldn't believe what I was watching (& that I'd paid good money for the privilege). I have never been embarrassed by a movie before, but in this case I felt acutely embarrassed for the actor (who looked equally nauseaus even beneath all that hammy acting), the director, the writer (where was the writer, by the way?), the producer, in fact anyone remotely associated with this lurid & misconceived attempt to reinvent the musical genre for the MTV generation. If you want to experience the real depth of emotion created by a musical with brilliant original songwriting & lyrics AND fast-paced set pieces which are slickly edited without giving you a migraine two minutes into the film, watch Lionel Bart's classic 60's musical "Oliver". And what was with all those double entendres about the size and length of the Ewan McGreggor character's 'you know what'? ("It's very long.." says he to a patently horrified Nicole Kidman). Whoever scripted these gags must have been a ... from The Benny Hill Show. But of course, the poor ... ... audience is expected to find schlong-length jokes absolutely hilarious. Ewan's earnestness as the lovelorn young writer made me want to vomit, not to mention his tendency to break out into saccarine sweet & vapid pop lyrics at every opportunity (I honestly believe we were expected to swallow the "all you need is love" line as though it were the greatest pronouncement on the subject ever passed down to mere mortals). Incidentally, the director wielded the "love" theme about as deftly as a cudgel. Anyway, the anachronism of scoring a musical supposedly set during La Belle Epoch with nothing more original than Madonna/Queen/Elton John covers had me gaping with astonishment and, worse, reflecting sadly on the ultimate 2 dimensionality and emptiness of our own pop/mass media culture versus say, Puccini's treatment of the same subject matter. The mish mash of plotlines borrowed or stolen from greater achievements was so shamelessly done, one realizes that the only way the director could have got away with it was for his audience to be totally clueless. Nicole dying of TB/Struggling bohemians (La Boheme) being but one blindingly obvious ... .... Then you had the sub-Titanic bit at the end where the man servant is running amok with a pistol trying to murder the penniless young artist who stole his master's main squeeze. That was highly original, I must say. Mind you, I strongly applaud the constant focus on Nicole Kidman/Sabine's suspendered thighs. Her thighs were probably the best part of the entire miserable movie and prevented me at more than one point from walking out of the theatre. This is a modern day musical for the kind of people who uncritically believe that Queen are the most profound artists since Leonardo Da Vinci. Horrid childish script lines embarrassingly delivered by actors who - being of higher calibre than this film deserves - ought to have known better. Horrible horrible waste of two hours. It has done irreversible damage to the musical genre.
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Summary: Unforgettable psot-modern Club Moulin Rouge
Review: This is simply one of the best and most unforgettable movie-musical of 2001 and all thanks to the visionary Baz Lahurman. Some may find the whole affair overtly tacky but it's all meant to be satire in those spots...
The amount of dazzle and consummate acting by the entire cast is well-matched and the singing, what can I say...Ewan McGregor can REALLY sing and Nicole Kidman aint half as bad...
Love it or hate it type of movie but if u know how to appreciate it, this is one post-modern flick set to 70's/80's songs...and more! Bravo!
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Summary: Soundbites ala carte
Review: Nothing more than a remade series of clips from musicals from the last 50 years along with remade modern music. All of it set to a visually bombastic series of vignettes which is nothing if it isn't post 20th century hollyweird. Period piece? forget about it. A bastardization and a not very entertaining one, you got it. The only thing entertaining was the rapid pace which left you wondering what it was you'd just seen. And then you realize that it doesn't matter cause nothing about it hangs together nor was it intended to. Since I do know something and I'm no longer in school it was a complete waste of 16 bucks.
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