All Form, No Content: A disaster

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2001)

This film is all form and no content. Moulin is an MTV style music video at heart featuring good music, fast editing, color, costume, cartoon-like characters, and weak and dreamy love story. Moulin should have stayed true to its MTV genre and limited itself to 15 minutes in length.
Beyond being a well produced music video the film failed miserably in every measure of a full-length feature. The story line was weak. There was no chemistry between Kidman and the male lead. This lifeless story is set amidst a backdrop of inane cartoon-like characters, and a twirling colorful headache of dancing and music. Extending the video format to more than 2 hours is a dismal failure. If I were distributing this film I would do the decent thing and include the following warning label on the marquee: "This film is dull and tormenting, proceed at own risk".