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Summary: How Wonderful the Costumes, Sets, Singing, Everything are!
Review: Anachronistic, yup, but you won't care because this movie is a feast for the eyes and ears, and is chock-full of tons of scenes (especially the musical & dance routines, which disc 2 gives you extra (and I do mean extra! i.e: extended versions, multiple camera angles, initial videos of dancers performing the numbers in the dance studio; cut scenes from initial test releases: just all kinds of awesome stuff!) Commentary by the director but best of all his wife Catherine Martin, she's a *genious* Costume AND Set Designer, and very professional yet entertaining, too. Too much fun for one disc so there are two to savor, only the greatest scrooges in the land could find fault with this movie!! -- THIS REVIEW WRITTEN BY THE GREATEST COSTUME FREAK IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS :-)
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Summary: get swept off your feet
Review: Great direction, visuals, and songs. "Moulin Rouge" is an offbeat, sometimes dark, but charming musical. The beginning of the movie is somewhat of a visual orgy, but as the movie progresses, audiences are introduced to the growing romance between Satine and Christian. As they fall deeper in love, their relationship becomes more forbidden accordingly. Jim Broadbent does a great job as Zidler; his facial expressions are comical and grotesque in an almost paradoxical way. Emotions are captured onscreen flawlessly. I definitely recommend this movie for anyone who would be delighted to see Ewan McGregor burst into song on a giant elephant.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: It wasn't what I expected at all, I didn't want to see this movie, but now that I have I'm still kicking myself for not seeing it on the big screen.
Basically, you'll love it or you'll hate it. I loved it. But I do understand if some people don't like it, but honestly people, if you don't like it, at least come up with a plausible reason for it. Most of the negative reviews I've read from this sight were so baseless I was wondering if they were even watching the same movie.
As for me, it's the most addicting movie I've ever seen in my life. The music is awesome and the acting superb. Ewan and Nicole totally blew me away with their amazing singing abilities. But aside from all the technical break-downs of this movie, it is just simply wonderful.
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Summary: more than i expected
Review: wow!!
except one little thing, everything about this movie was perfect!
even though Ewan was playng gay type of guy, he broke my heart.
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Summary: A Mixed Bag
Review: The most risky film of the year is sensational, gutsy, shamelessly self-indulgent, and nearly too big for its own good--it practically pulls itself off. Moulin Rouge has its roots in silent melodrama, flashy musicals, rock videos, and vaudeville theater, but Luhrmann synthesizes them into his own child. It's a film that scarily defiant in its assurance. The film is in bold, vibrant colors, but it's black and white: you either gobble it down or you spit it out. Unlike a movie like A Beautiful Mind, which is tailor-made for an audience greedy for noble, meaningful pap, Moulin Rouge realizes how silly it is and flaunts its own ridiculousness. It's glorious trash and it knows it; it's a proud [specimen] of a movie, eager to service everyone and try anything, but determined to keep its dignity in the process. And yet, Moulin Rouge never seems to really kick as hard as it promises to. It's a furious stunt, all right, and the first time around it hits you good. Even when it fails, though, it's more accomplished and provocative than most anything else out there at the moment. It's the kind of film, however, that I can respect, but never really love.
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Summary: This movie kicks bootah.
Review: This is a wonderful movie. The lights, sounds, everything, is just... well.. Spectacular Spectacular. :) I highly recommend this! The second disk is also wonderful, with extended dance scenes, rehearsals, interviews with the stars... This has everything. If you never buy another movie, get this!
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Summary: The Moulin Rouge! Gets 2 Thumbs Up.....
Review: Baz Luhrman and Guy Pearce co-write a masterful script about truth, beauty, freedom, love, about the Moulin Rouge! Christian, a young poet, played by Ewan McGregor, writes abut love, but yet never once has experienced it himself. A group of Bohemian actors plead with him to become their new writer and director. They show him that his words are words of love. In order to put the play, Spectacular! Spectacular!, into production they need to convince Harold Zidler, the impresario of the Moulin Rouge, that it will be a hit. That night they take the young poet to the underworld of the Moulin Rouge where he meets the courtesan, the Sparkling Diamond, Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. When Zidler organizes a private meeting for Satine and Christian that is when they fall in love. A jealous duke provides the budget for the play but only if he is promised Satine as his own. A true love story made into a musical with wonderful song and dance truly deserves a category of it's own. With nineteenth century Paris as it's backdrop and familiar twentieth century music, Baz Luhrman finds a way of adding his own special touch as he did in Romeo and Juliet.
Co-starring along side Nicole Kidman (The Others, Eyes Wide Shut, Far and Away) Ewan McGregor (Black Hawk Down, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) shows his sensitive side in the greatest love story of the year. Luhrman (Rent, Stritcly Ballroom) and Pearce (The Seventh Floor, Mad Bomber in Love, Vicious!) made a comfortable environment for Kidman and McGregor in one of their first singing roles.
Moulin Rouge took time to develop characters but at the same time kept the movie going with a constant rhythm. Using a collage of modern music made this anything but an ordinary musical. Turning simple phrases into beautiful lyrics is how the actors made their on-screen love seem so real. Endless amounts of dance sequences and wonderfully detailed sets and props make this movie a feast for the eyes alone.
Moulin Rouge can make your emotions reach a level they have never been and could touch anyone's soul. For adults and teens looking for an epic love story and just a good movie to watch this would be the one for you.
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Summary: The Moulin Rouge! Get's 2 Thumbs Up.......
Review: Baz Luhrman and Craig Pearce co-write a masterful script about truth, beauty, freedom, love, about the Moulin Rouge! Christian, a young poet, played by Ewan McGregor, writes about love, but yet never once has experienced it himself. A group of Bohemian actors plead with him to become their new writer and director. They show him that his words are words of love. In order to put the play, Spectacular! Spectacular!, into production they need to convince Harold Zidler, the impresario of the Moulin Rouge, that it will a hit. That night they take Christian to the underworld of the Moulin Rouge where he meets the courtesan, the Sparkling Diamond, Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. When Zidler organizes a private meeting for Satine and the young poet that is when they fall in love. A jealous duke provides the budget for the play but only if he is promised Satine as his own. A true love story made into a musical with wonderful song and dance truly deserves a category of it's own. With nineteenth century Paris as it's backdrop and familiar twentieth century music, Baz Luhrman finds a way of adding his own special touch as he did in Romeo and Juliet.
Co-starring along side Nicole Kidman (The Others, Eyes Wide Shut, Far and Away) Ewan McGregor (Black Hawk Down, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) shows his sensitive side in the greatest love story of the year. Luhrman (Rent, Strictly Ballroom) and Pearce (The Seventh Floor, Mad Bomber in Love, Vicious!) make it a comfortable environment for Kidman and McGregor to show there stuff in one of their first singing roles.
Moulin Rouge took time to develop characters but at the same time kept the movie going with a constant rhythm. Using a collage of modern music made this anything but an ordinary musical. Turning simple phrases into beautiful lyrics is how the actors made their on-screen love seem so real. Endless amounts of dance sequences and wonderfully detailed sets and props make this movie a feast for the eyes alone.
Moulin Rouge can make your emotions reach a level they have never been and could touch anyone's soul. For adult and teens looking for an epic love story and just a good movie to watch this would be the one for you.
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Summary: I just LOVED it
Review: I think that there is a while I haven't seen a movie as good as this one. Though there are some things that bugs me in this movie, i really liked it! In two weeks, i have seen it like 6 times!
What bugs me in this movie is that they often repeat their words... Like, the one who sing "The Show Must Go On" must have had said like 5 times this sentence before he sings it and 3 times after he sang it... But otherweise it was great! I like the medleys in this movie! there are so great! they used the good songs!
Just buy it! It's the best movie for those who like music and love.
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Summary: A Work of Art
Review: Make no mistake, not everyone will love this movie. In fact there seems to be only two responses to this movie - love it or hate it. I personally loved it. Ewan McGregor and Nichole Kidman have such a chemistry that they carry this whirlwind of a story along with their side-long love-struck glances alone. Sure, the plot was predictable, so what? Believe it or not the point of this spectacular movie was something beyond the plot, beyond the actors, beyond the dazzling set. This is a movie that is truely more than the sum of all its parts. It is beautiful, wonderful movie and I would reccomend it highly.
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