Purple Flash Dance

Rating: 6/10 (1 March 2011)

Burlesque may want to be Moulin Rouge but it's more Flash Dance meets Purple Rain. Marcus even has the rakish Morris Day chin-stroke down (Morris, BTW, did it better).
But this is not necessarily a bad thing. I liked both of those movies back in 1983/84, when I was 24/25 and full of sexual urgency and star potential. Burlesque – like Purple Rain and Flash Dance – is a sexually charged if coy fairy tale saddled with the hopes, dreams, demons and darlings of its protagonists.
This movie is best viewed before 30, before your own silly dreams have been crushed.