Spectacular, Spectacular

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2001)

Despite my dislike of Nicole Kidman, I decided that this was a movie that I needed to see. I truly have never seen anything like it. It's a musical, set in 1899, that uses sappy 1990's love songs. The costumes, the sets, the singing, the dancing, the love story... everything is amazing and inventive. Ewan McGregor's voice is absolutely beautiful (I must say, I was quite surprised). Normally, if I cry at movies at all, I do so at or near the end. But Chrisian, Ewan McGregor's character, made me cry the first time he sang to Satine (Nicole Kidman). It is very over the top, but the romance still seems legitimate and believable. This movie is absolutely worth seeing - I will probably go again. The music is amazing.