Moulin Rouge

Pros: Music - magic. Camera work - creative. Ewan McGregor - yum.
Cons: Was possibly conceived after a lot of absinthe.

This is one of those films you’ll either love or hate. For every person who thinks it’s a heart-warming love-story, there is another who thinks it’s just Fantasia crossed with a lot of absinthe. Before I saw it, I wasn’t sure who to believe. One...

Pros: A brilliant vision. Reinvents the movie musical with endless ingenuity.
Cons: Basic, even predictable story, but the leads make it compelling.

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When artists dare to reinvent a medium’s traditional form, the great ones create something entirely new while keeping true to the form’s eternal spirit. That’s what Stone and Spielberg did to the war picture. It’s how...

Pros: Ewan McGregor's singing and Nicole Kidman's presence; a stunning look; real imagination and originality.
Cons: A messy opening 30 minutes; intentionally jarring tonal shifts that take some getting used to.

Any illusions of cinematic normalcy fostered by Fox's straight-laced advertising campaign for Moulin Rouge! are shattered the very second the film begins. The camera pushes in on the curtain of a theatre as an orchestra conductor comes into...

Pros: Good Visuals, Ewan McGregor
Cons: Nicole Kidman's Voice, Lacks Originality, Completely Overated

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Pros: This is a heartfelt love story that can’t leave one indifferent
Cons: Ohh… sorry folks, but modern musicals will never match those of the 50-s

What could be better on a snowy winter night than a good movie about love? Well… you probably know the answer. But love… she’s gone away, to the town called Yesterday, so I’m watching a movie instead. In other words, after ALL of my...

Pros: Definitely a feast for the senses, and tears at your emotions like a runaway train
Cons: Doesn't always come together neatly. Needed some longer shots to allow absorbing of detail.

'Moulin Rouge' was definitely not what I had expected and far surpassed those expectations in every area. I was VERY pleasantly surprised but also quite amazed at Nicole Kidman's singing talent. An excellent actress, definitely, but a singer? Her voice ...

Pros: Now FILM Will Kill the VIDEO Star!
Cons: Ending was emotionally flat given what came before.

Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet was a highly stylized re-telling of a classic, and overdone, story, and I loved every minute of it. The fusion of modern settings and props with pop iconography was enthralling and heightened the emotional power of the...

Pros: Great-looking sets, 2 musical sequences, the second half
Cons: First half, most of the musical sequences boring or bizzare

Generally when I see Ewan McGreggor in a movie, I can usually be assured that at some point in the film I will enjoy myself. Of course, that was before his turn as Obe-Wan really hit the fan, but someone who manages to have such charisma in a real piece ...

Pros: Great tour de force by Kidman and Luhrmann...
Cons: Who could ask for anything more?

Moulin Rouge is a tour de force by its star, the luscious Nicole Kidman, and its director Baz Luhrmann, daring to dare in bringing us the surprise hit of the year.

The burlesque ambiance of the musical within a classic love...

Pros: It's a musical! Great song and dance numbers. Visual and auditory feast. Quality performances
Cons: Not enough Toulouse-Lautrec

I need to see this movie again. There’s more here than meet’s the eye. However, Moulin Rouge is such a sensory treat, it’s hard to concentrate on anything else.

That’s not to say that Moulin Rouge doesn’t have a good...

Pros: There are enough funny moments to keep you from leaving you seat.
Cons: Too much sight, too much sound, too much....everything.

Step into Baz Luhrman's way-back machine and hear the Top 40 in a way that not even Casey Kasem could comprehend. From the director that did everything but dig up Shakespeare and spit on his bleached bones with "Romeo + Juliet" comes "Moulin Rouge", a...

Pros: Brilliant visuals; highly entertaining; great use of music
Cons: Ok, so the underlying story is a tad silly....but so what

Baz Luhrman's "Moulin Rouge" is a frantic visual feast for the eyes and ears that proves to be one of the most flat out entertaining movies to hit theaters in quite some time.

Ostensibly set in the outskirts of Paris in 1900, "Moulin Rouge" is...

Pros: One of the most exhilarating, invigorating movie musicals I've ever seen!
Cons: It's all a blur - it was the one-armed man!

When you fall in love with someone, you tend to ignore whatever flaws they may have. The same holds true for movies - that's why we can say we "love" a particular movie, whereas we'd invite strange looks claiming that we love a box of breakfast cereal,...

Pros: Takes film and the musical form in an entirely new direction
Cons: Hard to get into, completely overwhelming, but some of us like those things.

I seem to have caught up with this film much later than everyone else. And after resisting it vociferously for ages, I've now fallen completely in love with it. Moulin Rouge is based loosely on the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus entered the Un ...

Pros: The movie is nice to look at - good costumes and sets.
Cons: Strange directing style, Kidman's acting, the music

Well, I had high hopes for Moulin Rouge so I went and saw it on opening day. The movie seemed to have gotten some good reviews and I enjoyed Baz Luhrmann’s direction of Romeo and Juliet, but I have to say I was a little disappointed in this film. ...