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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This movie was exciting, bizarre, hilarious, slow, fast, sad, and joyful. A wonderful film, I took my little brother to see it. He's 11, and he liked it too. It was tragic enough for teenagers and adults, musically enough for the musically inclined, funny enough for pre-teens, and bizarre enough for people like me. Nicole Kidman did a great job of being the love-stricken courtesan, and Ewan McGregor BECAME the innocent, love-obsessed writer. Awesome movie, can't wait for it to come out on video!
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Summary: Moulin Rouge
Review: Incredible editing, combined with a driving musical score, make this unique, ill fated love story come alive. Suddenly two hours have passed and the story is over, but the audience is left breathless. Go see it. It's marvelous. Baz Luhrmann has created a whole new style of story telling. Kidman is gorgeous. McGregor is sweetly naive and masculine. His eyes show his soul. The lavish production elements dazzle. I'd see it again and again and again.
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Summary: WOW!!!!
Review: I just got back from seeing "Moulin Rouge". This has got to be the best movie I have seen in a very long time. When I first saw the previews, I really did not want to go see it, but my girlfriend did. Being the good boyfriend that I am, I took her to see it expecting to get a 2 hour nap out of it. After the movie started, I barely blinked. The special effects and the acting were great, but what really sold the movie to me was the music. Never have I expected 80-90's music blending together to form beautiful music. After seeing it, I ran out and bought the CD. I have already listed to it 5 times, and I have only been home 30 min. Please go see it. A movie like this only comes around once in a blue moon. I am already making plans to go see it again.
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Summary: Garish
Review: The movie was loud, the flashes of light hurt my eyes and the plot was predictable. Save your money and stay at home for this one!!
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Summary: omg
Review: this was such an awesome movie.......intensely deep and you could totally get into it. I LOVE MOULIN ROUGE AND EWAN MCGREGORS VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Visual visual visual visual overload
Review: At times, it was too much to take in...most notably, the first 15 minutes, immediately prior to Nicole Kidman's entrance from high above the Moulin Rouge's dancefloor. The flyby editing, the varied film speeds, and the retina-overload of color and art direction made me dizzy. Thankfully, the entire film is not that quick or excessive, but the intermittent musical numbers do tend to flirt with the same look and feel. Even the 20th Century Fox logo at the film's start is given a new visual for the film--quite cleverly done, however, sometimes this film seems a bit too self-congratulatory about how clever it is trying to be with all its sights and sounds and stolen one-liners from cheesy pop ballads from the 70s and 80s. "Love is like oxygen, love is a many-spendored thing, love lift us up where we belong, love is lifting me higher, and I will always love you..." Cute, the FIRST time it's done, after that, it borders on embarrassing. What impressed me most after the sights were the sounds--I don't believe Elton John's music has received such a blatant plug since last year's Almost Famous by Cameron Crowe. This time around, the song of choice is "Your Song" and everyone gets their chance to sing it by film's end. Also, the ridiculously overplayed new version of "Lady Marmalade" is well utilized, as well as "Like a Virgin", "The Sound of Music", "The Show Must Go On" and other equally shocking ecclectic selections from all imaginable genres of music. As for the dancing, however, our leads of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor aren't seen doing much, and when they are dancing, they are filmed high up to avoid the camera's glaring eye on their footwork. I'm not quite sure how Nicole's dance injury was so heavily publicized as she didn't do a great deal. Plenty of dancing happens, yes, and one scene involving the Police's classic "Roxanne" is quite emotional, but does not involve our stars. I guess it was enough to get Nicole to do her own singing, which she handles quite nicely. Jim Broadbent and John Leguizamo are standouts among the cast, but don't expect a novel story or even a non-predictable plot. This film is purely for over-the-top production values--costuming, art direction, visual effects, editing, cinematography, sound, music, you name it...just not screenplay. In my book, if you don't have an engaging story, really, what's the point? The story is touted SEVERAL TIMES as a "story of beauty, truth, and freedom, but above all, love." Enough already! By the eighth time I'd heard this, I was craving some REAL dialogue! Even the very end of the end credits makes it a point of proclaiming this ONCE MORE, just in case the viewer missed it any of the other times during the two hour film. Like director Baz Luhrman's other well known work, 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, the visuals take precedence over everything else. That film received an Oscar nomination for its art direction, and I would be my early guess Moulin Rouge would receive nominations in that category as well as costume design. Final word: see it to "SEE" it. The gentlemen will most likely not like it; the ladies will like the "prettiness" of the sights. This overload of sights will best be enjoyed on the big screen in the cinema, so don't wait for this to come to rental--see it now to be fully enveloped in the experience.
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Summary: One of the Summer's Saddest Movies :(
Review: Even though the setting, charecter development, plot, music, stars and Comedy were great it is not enough to make me forget the tragic ending that ruined the whole film. The film was done very well up until that point. It is especially good to see a movie of this type since there aren't many musicals out there these days. The cast was good as was the plot, and charecter development. But what I think really made it a good movie was the dancing and singing scenes. If you like sad love stories, be sure not to pass this one up !
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Summary: Keep your "e's" and your LSD's... this movie is like a
Review: What a movie! If you ever go to see it... pay as close attention as you can to the first 20-30 minutes. So many sights and sounds are packed into the first few minutes you will truly get dizzy. Can one say they've been assaulted by a moving canvas of colour and sound? Some of the dreams I've had in my lifetime may come close to some of the imagery shown in this picture... but no where near as fast as this. I didn't know what to think of the first few minutes, it was like I had been hit by a train, and I didn't know what had run me over. It wasn't until the love story part developed that I was truly hooked. It grabbed me and pulled me in. The musical selections were witty, and nostalgic. I would have thought it impossible to do a musical number of Madonna's "Like a Virgin", and pull it off... and with a straight face too! I've never seen a movie nor a musical quite like this (and I've seen a dozen musical in London)! Moulin Rouge was very exciting. It's been a week since I've seen it... and I still can't get it out of mind. I had to buy the CD just to relive it. I can't wait till the DVD comes out. There is no movie or director that I know of that has done anything quite like it. It is an original... a modern masterpiece. Keep your "e's" and your ... ... cause this movie is like a ... Be prepared to get hooked!
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Summary: Above all things this movie is about love!
Review: If you don't remember my name I was one person who said "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" is the best movie. Now it is "Moulin Rouge". I love this movie. I saw it two times so far and I have tons of posters of it and books. If you haven't seen this movie yet, you have to it is the best!!
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Summary: Instant Classic
Review: Original, weird, different, romantic, beautiful, magical, dreamy, thrilling, hilarious, tragic, addictive. Those are just a few words that describe this movie. I've seen it 3 times now, and I cannot wait to see it again. It gets better every time. Go see it. If you love movies and have an open mind, you will NOT be disappointed.
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