weird

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2001)

Seeing this after all the hype had gone down - the moment you see the conductor over-enthusiastically going along with the 20th Century Fox theme you know 'this is going to be silly'. The rapid visuals can be startling and quite amazing at times (although the speed is hard to take in on one viewing). The songs in the main are well-chosen - Your Song, Roxanne, One Day I'll Fly Away, Like a Virgin, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - and well-performed. I particularly like the way several sequences draw on other films and the way they were shot. McGregor and Kidman are the performances you'll remember, although Jim Broadbent was fun. A film of odd great moments (and an awful lot of, well, awful ones). Something a bit too busy to want to see too often, and I think it will fare badly on TV. Not the best film ever (and not Luhrmann's best either, Romeo and Juliet came out better) but not bad. Interesting. And definitely *very* weird.