As GRAND as it gets...

Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2001)

Wild. Excessive. Cliched even... but, oh so fun! This movie is a feast for the eyes and ears, a completely insane production full of romance, laughs, melodrama and some of the finest pop tunes from the 80s and early 90s, all together... Ewan McGregor is absolutely fantastic as an innocent and overly sentimental lovesick puppy (who knew the guy could sing like that?!), and Nicole Kidman´s cold beauty mirrors that of the leading ladies of old Hollywood. The direction, costume design, cinematography and musical numbers are to die for... it´s wild, it´s crazy and at times absolutely hillarious (highlights? Think "Like a Virgin" sang by a fat old man with a riddiculous moustache or an Argentinian mixing tango by Mariano Mores with Sting´s Roxanne). I can´t promise you that you´ll like this film... there´s a good chance you´ll absolutely despise it. But there´s also a chance that you´ll enjoy it inmensely and will get out of the movie threater singing "The hills are alive with the sound of music" at the top of your lungs... just watch it, and then you´ll tell me ;)