Burlesque - 1.5 Stars

Rating: 3/10 (25 April 2012)

"Burlesque" is a 119-minute movie that could have worked if it trimmed down around 60 minutes of its running time and became what it really wants to be; an exceedingly long music video starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. Whenever they're not singing, the movie attempts to lure us into a story that's not even good enough to be used in, uh, music videos.
Aguilera plays Ali, a sweet young girl who works as a waitress in Iowa. This girl can sing, believe me. And dear Ali believes it too. That is why she quits her job and heads to Los Angeles hoping to fulfill her dream as a singer/dancer/performer. Ali eventually enters a club called, The Burlesque Lounge, and it is there where she wants to start.
In these early scenes, we see Christina Aguilera projecting an uncanny charm. We see minimal make-up accompanied by some no, a lot, of clothes. Where were we? Oh, yeah. Pretty Ali desperately wants to work in Burlesque, and so she approaches Tess (Cher), the club owner, and does her best to convince Tess that she's Got What It Takes.
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