Style over substance = a creative mess

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2002)

I was about to give up on Moulin Rouge just over the halfway mark when the "El Tango de Roxanne Medley" appeared. I will never listen to Sting's "Roxanne" the same way again. (A big thanks to actor Jacek Koman as the "Unconscious Argentinian" for performing the song.) It was one of the few times I tried to give a movie one more chance to prove itself.
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman sang pleasantly and were certainly up for the challenge director Baz Luhrmann was giving them. Overall, Moulin Rouge is a stylish, ambitious and gleefully over-the-top musical romance that is very heavy on the senses and is, fatally, very light on plot.
As mentioned before, portions of the movie are better than the entire film.