There needs to be a "Weird Al" Yankovic version of this.

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2006)

"Moulin Rouge!" was not the sort of movie that I would have nominated for Best Picture in a year when we had "Mulholland Drive" and "Memento" (thankfully, it didn't win). But otherwise, the movie isn't bad. Like another 2001 flick, "A Knight's Tale", it uses 20th century popular culture to tell a story that happened a long time ago. Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and Jim Broadbent do reasonable jobs with their roles, but I personally thought that John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec was the neatest character in the movie. And the ending was a little anti-climactic.
Considering that many of the songs used here were once spoofed by "Weird Al" Yankovic, it seems that they could make a spoof of this movie featuring his versions. I'd pay to see that.