Flashy junk is still junk

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2001)

Let's make a musical, only let's not make the same mistake they did with "I'll do anything" and attempt much original material. Let's use songs we already know people loved, big top 40 tunes only of course, and then let's set as a backdrop a dieing prostitute falling madly in love with an impoverished writer, using about 40000 cuts per hour filled with wild whacky sound effects as we zoom in on somebody's face and call it a blockbuster. My good friend and fellow critic calls this "Better than Casa Blanca". I weep for his future children. Although the actors did well with their material, the shallowness of this drizzle prevented me from really caring who got the prostitute. A ridiculous but shameful hyper-indulgence, much like the Moulin Rouge itself, I presume.