Customer Reviews
Confused.com? You will be.... - By: S. Birch, 30 Oct 2008 
At first, my wife & I thought it just had a long arty f@rty starting, but after 25 minutes of loud shouty bizarre colour schemes we got a head ache & gave up.
Our advice, unless you are arty f@rty or are just trying to impress someone, don't bother watching this tripe.
I wish I could have given this a negative number 0 is too kind & giving it a 1 is far too generous.
The Moulin Rouge - Pure brilliance. Worth a watch. - By: Ayed G. Eden, 06 Oct 2008 
I have to that i am not a big fan of musicals. I'm not too fond of high school musical so i didnt think this film would be my type...
But i was so wrong. It was absolutely amazing. The acting is top class by nicole & ewan & makes you feel what they are feeling. The jazzed up songs really work & just bring the whole film together. It can make you laugh & cry (literally).
My favourite part is probably the ending because it is such a beautiful representation of love & actually made me cry because of the twistin the ending. The end song "come what may" was absolutely breathtakingly sung by nicole & ewan & you feel the love they share. It gave me goosebumps but i really enjoyed it. I watch it again & again.
A REAL STUNNER.
A MUST WATCH
because you'll want to watch it again & again...!
Comedy, Can Cans and True Love - By: N. Lavender, 14 Sep 2008 The story is great; it has comedy, singing, dancing and, naturally, "That which I believein above all things; love". All the actors are brilliant but Nicole Kidman is breathtakingin it. My favourite scene (possibly of all movies ever) is the finale scene of 'Spectacular Spectacular'. The song & dance scenes are really good fun, especially 'El Tango de Roxanne'. I have a lot of friends who love this movie, some who don't like it & a few who, even worse, won't even give it a chance. As you can tell, I'm a bit biased towards it, but I would say you should definitely try this film because there's a good chance that you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Brilliantly dazzling - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 22 Apr 2008 The subject is banal : Paris, 1900, the famous Moulin Rouge music-hall & their never-ending shows that are titillating & mysterious, fascinating & prodigious. Love above everything else, romantic love with its passion, the little thing deep down inside, dramatic love of course, melodramatic even. The actress of such a show is supposed to finance the show, & the work of everyone else, by providing the patrons, the generous financiers with some carnal pleasure, illusionary or real according to the desires & potencies of these rich even if rather aging males. The melodrama is reached when the actress is dying of consumption. The red of blood is mixing with the green of absinthe. But that is without taking into account Nicole Kidman who transforms that baroque & rococo tall tale of love & prostitution into what it is supposed to be, a blinding explosion of colors & fire, lights & flames. And she can keep the tears on the stage exclusively & prevent the audience from watering the succulent plantsin the lobby of the movie theater. Then we are dazed by the brilliant dances, the mesmerizing music, the fascinating songs, the nostalgically innovative melodies, the special effects that are exploding everywhere & transforming a plain stage or a plain screen into some kind of cosmic big bang on the retinas of our eyes, not to speak of the eardrums of our ears. More brilliant than that you die. And Nicole Kidman, or Satine if you prefer, can die on the stagein the arms of her beloved author who is crying so much & so loud that we do not even need to do the same. And then the whole world can fall apart & we can jump into an elliptic flash forward & projects our asses from the flash back of the recollection back into the future when this Christian is reminiscing the thunderous passion of theirs & the flashes of craziness that went along with it. Thanks God this is already a classic for the next generation.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Review - By: Teachers Stars, 05 Mar 2008 Moulin rouge!
This is a musical love film setin the bohemian part of Parisin 1900 staring Ewan McGregor a young English writer who has moved to Paris to writein the bohemian revolution & Nicole Kidman as Satine a young actress at the Moulin rouge. The two find themselves at the hart of a new era for the Moulin rouge as an investor is set to invest & what better way than to set up a new show called spectacular spectacular a show the two lovers come up with. The show is a mirrored image of their secret love life & the investor known as the duke Richard Roxburgh has other plans for Satine when the duke finds out about the lover's affair he goes crazy with jealousy & tells the one man who will stop it Harold Zidler Jim Broadbent the owner of the Moulin rouge who orders Satine to break up this relationship that sends Christian mad with rage. He eventually stormsin to the opening night of the show & he shows his anger & as he is walking out Toulouse-Lautrec John Leguizamo shouts the one phrase this film is based on `the greatist thing you'll ever leard is just to love' & all of a sudden everything is ok between the lovers
This is an amazing film but only if you like musicals becouse there are lots of great songs all jazzed up making them bohemian. There is an amasing harmony between mgregor & kidmanin the film that will make you believe that they are proffesional singers. You will find that director Baz Luhrmann has done & exelent job with the coriography & the singing that deserves hundreds of awards. I think you should buy this film as it never gets boring & you will allways love the music
David Devereux,14
