A movie I didn't expect to like, but wound up loving.

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2002)

This movie transcends the way movies are made, Baz deserved the best director nod by a landslide over that Beautiful Mind director. But whatever, what's done is done I guess(highway robbery).
The movie's musical numbers fill you with so much joy and that sense of 'wow, that was pretty cool' feeling. It's really an amazing movie. The choice of songs somehow fit(save for a couple of songs, ie. that 'diamonds are a girls best friend' tune that gets sung over and over again throughout the movie I coulda done without) The storyline itself is of course, very 'Broadway' and thus, I don't mind at all that it didn't win Best Picture, but I still stand by my Best Director choice.
I can sense a bunch of movies will come out soon attempting to copy Moulin Rouge, and frankly, I can't wait, here's hoping they don't ruin this newly realized genre'.