I could feel my IQ dropping

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2003)

To the film's credit, The musical medleys are inventive and well produced, even if the songs used have been played to exhaustion already (except for the aptly used "Children of the Revolution" by T-Rex--really rockin' song right there!). However, the story and sexual innuendos which drive the story were about as inventive as another "yo momma" joke.

All of the cabaret scenes were sensational, which is cool, but I couldn't help but feel like they were only there to keep your attention from wandering away from the love story you've probably seen the likes of in a dozen other movies already.

To top it all off, I couldn't stand how all the male characters in this movie threw Satine around like a bargaining chip. I know that's turn-of the century-Paris-reality, but I wish it hadn't been so glamourised. It'd have been nice to see more of that Revolution the "bohemian" characters were so jacked up about.