Huh? I must have been sitting in the wrong theatre.

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2001)

I WANTED to like Moulin Rouge. I liked Romeo & Juliet. I liked Strictly Ballroom. I like oddball films, I appreciate offbeat juxtapositions. I should have like this.
But I didn't. Oh, there were things to appreciate. Some very interesting performances, a great soundtrack, inventive (if overdone) sets, and an attempt to somehow parody itself.... but it came off.....forced. Unnatural.
Rocky Horror and even films like O Brother Where Art Thou get away with high camp because you KNOW it's camp. With Moulin Rouge you got the feeling that the actors, and far too much of the audience, were taking it seriously.