Review of "Moulin Rouge"

Moulin Rouge

Cult Movie

Best Musical of all time, WAY larger-than-life

yay!

The cinematography is astounding. The scenic design is without match.

The lead actress is a vapid hack.

Fun for the eyes and ears. So good, in fact, that I didn't even mind Nicole Kidman.

Ugh, the story line was weak, the acting deplorable, and about the only good thing was the cinematography and set designs, which does not a good movie make.

If you can suspend your disbelief and go with it, you will enjoy the ride....and what a fun ride it is! Nicole Kidman looks incredible, as well.

Fun, and visually spectacular. Watch it for entertainment value, not when you're looking for a mind-boggling, life-changing great work of cinema. Yes, the music is anachronistic, but that makes it that much easier to sing along with. :) Yeah, OK, it's sappy...but it's a musical. Come on. It's cute.

Oh my god. This is one of my most favorite movies ever. Ewan McGregor is awesome in it, as well as the other actors. I'm just a big gooey fan of musicals.

As for those who demand a more challenging plot line and less "corney stolen lyrics"...get over it. :)

It was a creative way to present the subject and that first scene at the moulin rouge...ooh, pure film crack. I see something new everytime I watch it...and I've watched it more times than I am old...many more times. In fact, let's just say I'm so devoted (obsessed, yeah) that one of my professors said I should teach a course on it. ;)

When I first went to see this movie I was dragged to it by my freind Kim for my birthday. I thought it was going to be the most boaring peice of Eyecandy ever produced.

At first it was everything I was expecting it to be. And then a Narcoleptic Agentinion crashes threw the ceiling and John Leguazomo come busting threw the door as a dwarf dressed as a nun and the movie became lots of fun.

The begining is so strong that even though the movie falls apart at the middle and the ending is pritty good, it's still worth watching.

And you will never go back to Madona's Like a Virgin again!

This is a movie I love more every time I see it. It is incredibly witty, often dark, breathtakingly beautiful to look at, and provides us with some of the most sincere and glorious parodies of modern songwriting I have heard in a long, long time. The real key to great humor is to present it entirely in earnest, and that is what we have here. It is a brilliant piece from start to finish, and I can't help but feel that so many people just plain didn't get it. Perhaps that is just as well. It isn't for everyone, I suppose, but this movie had me from the moment that Ewan McGregor burst out with "The hills are alive..." yeah. This movie somehow manages to be brutally mocking and heartwarmingly sincere at the same time. Laughter and tears, that's what it's all about.

A 6.7 out of 10? Balderdash! This has got to be my favorite movie of whatever year it was that it came out - and Melinda is right, it just gets better with additional viewings. It's so colorful... just a delight to watch, the singing is fantastic, and well, I tend to love anything that crosses genres and this certainly fits that bill.

15 minutes was to much for me

As a person who studied "Hollywood Musicals" in college (Performing Arts 350 writing intensive) this is far from being "great" like everyone is writing.

This movie reused lyrics from the 20th century in a film that supposedly takes place in the 1800s.


o/~ the HIILLLLLLSSSS are alive...with the sound of muuuussssiiicccc o/~

That lyric gets old pretty fast in the first 15 minutes. Eye candy is not what I'm looking for in a musical - I look for substance. This movie severely lacks it.

Blech!!

Double Blech. Two actors who can't sing butcher songs which (with a few exceptions) were already overdone and underwritten.