Beautiful, Tragic, and Entertaining, If Somewhat Overdone.

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2007)

This production received SO much press and promotion that I almost passed on seeing it. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't do that.
This is one of those movies, which knows it's a movie. There are several scenes in which the characters look directly into the camera and pop off their one liner. It works well here, though.
While this work is replete with clichés and the dialog is particularly trite in spots, the production itself is really quite lovely. As far as musicals go, this is one of my favorites, and this version of it is probably the best of the 6 versions I've seen.
Nicole Kidman is, as usual, wonderful in this role. Even her movies I haven't liked, I've always thought she gave it her all, and the movie wasn't lacking because of her.
All in all, this work was very enjoyable; tragic, but lovely.
It rates an 8.4/10 from...
the Fiend :.