A must-see.

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2005)

This wonderful movie has become my all-time favourite. Not that you need to know this, but when I rented it a while ago and I sat down to watch it, I ended up spending over six hours straight just watching everything on the DVD (the movie four times, once with the commentary on). The first time I watched it I had a very open mind and I just went into it not expecting anything. I just kind of sat there watching and watching it, with this amused look on my face, bursting out laughing a only couple of times. After I saw the whole thing for the first time, I actually didn't find it brilliant or genius, I only thought it weird, but good. However, something from the movie pulled me in and I kept watching it over and over again. I think I watched it six or seven times once I'd returned the seven-day rental.
Anyway, it has become sacred in my mind. I personally really connected to the movie on an emotional level because of the beautiful story of this lost creature, just looking to be complete and to feel absolutely comfortable in her own skin. And on top of that, you have great, just amazingly great tunes, and you have a very large element of humour in it as well. It has a bit of an odd sense of humour, though, but I personally am into that kind of thing. I think it's a very well-rounded movie, as it has so many moods and ups and downs. That is to say, it doesn't snap from extreme to extreme, it flows very well.
The movie is also very colourful and pleasing to the eye to watch. The costumes are wonderful, extravagant outfits, the make-up and hair is always great. The shifting of colour tints (or whatever you call it...saturation, etc.) in the film itself as Hedwig tells the story through flashbacks, and as the story tells itself in the 'present', also really helps bring the story to life on screen.
All in all, a really, really awesome movie.