Indeed a musical for people who don't like musicals.

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2001)

What a spin! Moulin Rouge! is beyond anything ever before. A perfect mixture of love and musical, drama and dance, comedy and cabaret. It uses whatever it likes from modern music, and tosses away everything it doesn't like about musicals and theater. (Eat this Saturday Night Fever!)
The images strike you first, with amazing zooms and spins and cuts, the story is highly paced and perfectly timed with the charming, funny and sometimes even heartwarming. (Wait a second. Gonna shed a little tear here)
The plot is downright idioticly simple, but the mixture of different genres and funny twists, the anarchy and the daring, makes you forget that. Hell. The lovestory of this film is topped only by pieces such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula". And right now, even that seems debatable!
The actors are all great, and they perfectly portray the image of good, evil, love, desire and most of all SHOWTIME!!!
Baz Luhrmann has overdone himself this time, and it seems to me, that his career can ONLY be downhill from here.
10/10 - shut up and go see the movie.