A wonderful trip!

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2001)

Moulin Rouge was Gilbert & Sullivan meet MTV meets Terry Gilliam. I found this movie to be much funnier than I expected and visually stunning. I would like to respond to two previous reviews: Marya-3: I am 30 and would not consider myself to be "very young". (I remember when MTV actually played music and not the garbage it does today.) And so I think that the music used in the film was from my generation. Furthermore, to Burkemt29, so what if the gun took a trajectory that was not likely or that the the music wasn't correct for the period? It wasn't supposed to be an accurate portrayal of the Parisian Bohemian underground, IMHO, it was a surreal trip, a musical that was visually "Spectacular Spectacular" and a treat in the vast morass of cinematic nonsense that has been saturating our movie houses.
I think that movie-goers need to adjust their thinking to accommodate the type of picture that one is seeing. Allow yourself a little suspension of disbelief and don't try to nit-pick every detail that seems slightly out of place. If you want complete accuracy in a story, rent a documentary or read a book.