Like two movies in one

Rating: 4/10 (28 October 2001)

The problem I had with Moulin Rouge is that it almost seems like Luhrmann shot two movies - one good, one bad - and had a blind person splice them together. The romance between McGregor and Kidman is very good, the chemistry is excellent. Their stuff works. What doesn't is the over the top musical numbers, especially the "Like A Virgin" number - oy, vey what was Baz thinking on that one? Cut about one-third of the musical numbers and the movie would rate around an 8.