One pimple too many...

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2001)

Before I go into any detail about the movie, let me just say that Ewan McGregor has got a pimple the size of Scotland on his forehead throughout the entire film.
Anyway, I rented this movie without any high expectations as I've only seen one musical ever that I genuinely like, and that's Dancer in the Dark. After seeing Moulin Rouge, it remains at one.
Moulin Rouge starts off with a painful amount of close-ups of Jim Broadbent's amazingly ugly face and some equally amazing special effects. The extraordinary settings of Moulin Rouge is enough of a reason to give it a watch, but the bland and clichÃ©d story is what ultimately made me dislike it.
I dare someone to just try and count the amount of editing cuts in this movie. That would probably be a greater feat than the writing of the script was.