The dancing is awful and phony -- all put together with cuts and editing to make it look like people can dance when they really can't. Kind of like when they try to make it look like Bruce Willis is a martial arts expert.
I hated almost every minute of this movie. I was dragged to it by my wife, who loves dance. I suffered through the thing, only to find out that my wife hated it too. I didn't want to spoil her evening by telling her during the movie how much I was hating it, so she figured I liked it, even though she was hating it too.
Turns out she would have been happy to walk out on it if I had only let her know I was feeling the same way. I guess there's a lesson there about honesty in a relationship. If I were a movie critic, I would not give stars, but watches -- one watch for every time I looked at mine during the flick. This one was a five watcher.
Major turkey. Can't believe it got so many nominations.
Hollywood goes so big on casting personalities. Its a shame they don't go to Broadway and recuit real troopers like they did in "All That Jazz". I suspect that Zeta-Jones and Renee' Z.'s dancing is mostly special effects.
Nothing- NOTHING- could be worse than Moulin Rouge, which not only utilized non-dancers in the dancing roles, it used non-singers in the singing roles AND couldn't be bothered to actually write a soundtrack, instead using snippets of 70's-80's pop tunes mashed up incoherently. Then all these elements were edited together by what must have been 25 monkeys on crack. And did I mention the dialogue was often unintelligible?
Because it had beautiful art direction and costumes, apparently enough non-discerning viewers were fooled into thinking they were viewing something entertaining. As for me, as God is my witness, I will spend ther rest of my days tracking down the guy who played Toulouse Latrec. When I find him, I will rip off his arm and beat the director to death with it.
Surely you mean FORGETTABLE! In any case..it was just a movie not a political statement.
Surely you mean FORGETTABLE! In any case..it was just a movie not a political statement.