MOULIN ROUGE

Advantages: Great story, amazing actors/actresses, worth watching
Disadvantages: Beginning bit quite boring

...This has to be the best film I have ever watched. It's one of my favourites. I can't remember the first time I watched it, I think I was about 14 me and my dad were at his and he put it on ... I'm not normally into music ones where theres loads of singing and dancing but this was just amazing. Especially the scene in Satine's bedroom and also on the elephant those bits were just fantastic. The film is contorversial and I would recommend your careful showing young children this film because of the sexy bits that appear in the film. THE PLOT Moulin Rouge is set in Paris at the start of the 1900's, with Ewan McGregor on his type writer. The next bit is a bit of a blur, because when I watch it, I just skip to the bit where he sings for the first time. Satine (Kidman) mistakes Christian (McGregor) for the Duke and tells him...

x_sexual_kisses_x 06.11.2007 · Read review
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Aaaaah, Moulin Rouge

Advantages: Modern songs, great costumes, great actors/actresses.
Disadvantages: The plot wasn't that easy to follow.

...This review of Moulin Rouge was written as a project for my music class at school, which I must admit I am very proud of because I got an A and I haven?t achieved one of those in ages. It was fun writing the project as in class my friend Jenny who loves the film kept on coming up to me while I was writing and saying ?Aaah Moulin Rouge!? every five minutes, which got a bit annoying. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing and getting a great grade for it! ~~THE STORY~~ ?This story is about truth ? this story is about beauty ? above all things this story is about love.? Christian is a young English poet who goes against his father?s wishes and moves to Monmatre, Paris. He meets the artist Toulouse ? Loutrec after an actor falls through the ceiling of Christian?s apartment and ends up hanging upside down. Teaming up...

happeninbabe 18.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

"Moulin Rouge" by an undying musical fan.

Advantages: All aspects of the film
Disadvantages: I'm biased and cannot find any disadvantages

...I just love musicals and always have done! This was a real eye opener for me as it takes a classic,l highly unoriginal idea of the poor writer falling for the ambitious actress only to be rebuffed, one over and then TRAGEDY strikes. However, in Moulin Rouge, the director, who previously made Romeo and Juliet and recently presented Australia, presents it all in a state of the art way and has you foot tapping until the end The sheer ambition of the presentation blows your breath away and the quirky use of pop classics is great fun. The main actors sing amazingly well and it was the film that definitetly showed that Nicole Kidman was a force to be reckoned with!!!!! The set design, costumes, choreograophy, acting are all superb and even the ingenious use of Australian icons (try and spot Kylie Monogue) in early 19th century Paris is...

simonspain 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Moulin Rouge lowlights in the limelight

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: See above!!

...Marc Bolan would have spun in his grave at the abuse Children of the Revolution was put to in this film, pathetically in my view that was the most original piece in the film. An idle Saturday afternoon and the other half suggests going to see Moulin Rouge – well it seemed more appealing than a trip to Lakeside if you know what I mean. 1. I hadn’t read the reviews or the hype, so went in with an open mind. 2. I didn’t even realise it was a full blown musical, although I was prepared for some musical element, given the topic. I don't dislike musicals as such. 3. Set at around 1900 in Paris, I thought it would be different from the usual Hollywood fodder. Oh God, it was the longest afternoon of my life, I cringed every time they murdered another song, every single one of which was utterly inappropriate to...

jacksonandy 28.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

Moulin Rouge Wows for about an hour

Advantages: Imaginative, sometimes innovative, some magical moments
Disadvantages: very loud, and brash and becomes more conventional at its end.

...Moulin Rouge almost immediately reminded me of Terry Gilliam's Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). It's excessively loud, theatrical, full of slapstick and garish. It is however too sweet and sentimental to be down right vulgar. At times its even touchingly romantic. It has also been made by a crew of seemingly fearless film technicians who use everything they can afford to put on the screen-on the screen. You have no idea how far this film will go. The only clue is that its rated Pg-13 (in the U.S.) but it seems like it's going to push through that barrier at any moment anyway. It evokes Keystone Cop slapstick and Allan Carr's (Can't Stop the Music, Broadway's La Cage Aux Folles) excesses sometimes at the same time. It's frenetically edited like an MTV video on speed, but creates such a detailed period opulent fantasy world...

ChrisJarmick 02.11.2001 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

moulin rouge is magnificant,

Advantages: good value for money, lots of tracks
Disadvantages: none come to mind

...For anyone who loved the film, this special edition soundrack album is a must have. Featuring all the songs from the musical, plus mixes and variations, this is a fantastic album. The collectors edition, is a 2 cd set, the main soundtrack album, plus a bonus disc, featuring other songs from the film, and also mixes of some of the tracks. The 2 cds each come in thier own case, and come in a red cardboard sleeve, with a gold picture frame, inside are the words moulin rouge. This album was released in 2002, following the huge success of the film. The film itslef was produced by Baz Luhrman, who is also famous for the musical strictly ballroom. The price is also very good, i bought this when it first got released and paid £14.99, the single cd was £11.99. But now that it has been out for a couple of years, the prices have gone...

lulabell87 28.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Collector's Edition) - Original Soundtrack

Go To The Moulin Rouge for Quality Entertainment

Advantages: Excellent film all round, particularly the music and humour
Disadvantages: Well suppose it's annoying having to pay to get in...!

...“Moulin Rouge”, starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, is one of the newest films out in the cinemas (well at the time of writing anyway!), although one should point out that there was an original Moulin Rouge out in the 1950s, 1953 if memory serves me correctly (?) The film tells the story of the Moulin Rouge – the infamous Paris nightclub where the rich and influential come to play with the young and beautiful of the entertainment underworld (to paraphrase one of the lines in the film). Nicole Kidman plays the part of the star performer of the Moulin Rouge, the most beautiful of all the girls who “strut their stuff” (!) for the many male admirers who come to see them. In order that the club can raise more money, a theatre group (including a young writer named Christian - Ewan McGregor) wants to...

so3003 25.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

Moulin Rouge

Advantages: Spellbinding, exhilirating, comedic, dramatic. First class performances throughout.
Disadvantages: The denouement is slightly laboured and could have been a little shorter.

...This truly is the Spectacular, Spectacular of the year. From the very start of the film the viewer is taken on a sumptious journey of musical melodrama, which will leave you spell bound and breatheless. Set in Paris in 1900 the film takes advantage of contemporary music and sets the songs against the background of the Moulin Rouge. Nicole Kidman and Euan McGregor are outstanding as the leading protagonists, and lend comedy talent to remarkably good singing performances. The sets are truly magnificent, as are the costumes, and the film may easily go on to scoop a plethora of awards at next year's Oscar ceremony. The production is of the highest quality, and one can only be in awe of the people that had the imagination to put the film together in the first place. The comedy pieces are superbly choreographed and extremely funny. By...

waterfront85 15.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

Lets put the ROUGE back into the MOULIN..........

Advantages: Great singing and story line. Fab actors.
Disadvantages: Not everyone would like it because it's more of a musical

...Here's a review i wrote a while ago, i thought i'd upload it: Hope you like it! Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge A movie, like you have never seen before. This is a magnificent, heartrending, romantic musical, testing love to its maximum limits. The brand-spanking new Moulin Rouge is a fantastic depiction of love, presented by Fox Studios. Exclusive soundtracks accompanied by outstanding soprano and tenor vocals from Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor give a blast of excitement to this musical. The Moulin Rouge is produced and directed by Baz Luhrmann, who is also the former director of the all - popular Shakespearian Romeo and Juliet. If Kidman dueting with McGregor isn't adequate - then how about the out of the blue cameo appearance of Kylie Minogue; singing as a green fairy? It's an all - tragic dramatic tale of romance that...

mightyd 01.09.2006 (03.09.2006) · Read review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (+CD) (DVD)

Seeing Rouge

Advantages: Cinema as it is meant to be - loud, colourful and moving
Disadvantages: Can be too flashy for its own good

...Ten word review: Man loves woman he’s not supposed to, all ends badly. Sound familiar? Yes, welcome to my review of Romeo + Juliet: Special Edition, er, I mean Moulin Rouge, the new movie from Baz Luhrmann. Comparisons to the aforementioned Shakespearean extravaganza are inevitable (the film even features a rhyming couplet or two), but this is very much a new kind of moviemaking. Taking his cue from musicals of the past and music of the present, Mr Luhrmann has created an intense mix of surreal visuals, heart breaking songs and surprising performances to make this one of the most unforgettable experiences I’ve seen at the cinema in a long time. The basic plot runs quite simply. Christian, played by Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary), escapes his strict father in England to write poetry in Paris...

peppersinclaire 10.09.2001 · Read review
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