Simply excellent

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2005)

This is , at this moment, my favourite film. It's got everything. Firstly, Nicole Kidman, I know it's been said before, but she was born to play this part - she looks sumptuous, acts well and sings well. Ewen Mcgregor, ditto, but for the ladies.
The film is a visual feast, especially the first 45mins - perhaps if there is a fault it is here, with a little too much going on on screen.
The costumes and settings are stupendous.
The music is brilliant, taking standard popular music and presenting them in a musical context - so even if you're not in to musicals, please do not let the tag 'musical' put you off - there's covers of Trex, Bowie, Elton John all superbly done.
There's humour, pathos, melodrama, delivered with brilliant timing by all the cast.
So if you like beautiful women, handsome men, a good pantomime baddie, great music and a visual feast, you needn't look anywhere else.