As we use to say What a Trip!

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2001)

I have to say that I went to see this film with more then a touch of trepidation. I had more than a few doubts about a film set in 1900 and yet featured music from that later part of the century? And there is that video that has nothing to do with the film that but was inspired by it... To say the least I was not expecting much.
I was VERY pleasantly surprised. Moulin Rouge is a fantastic intelligent musical fantasy that has more energy in the first 15 minutes than most films have in their entirety. And the fact that they are able to blend the Can Can, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend, Material Girl and Diamond Dogs is close enough to genius to count for me!