Poorly Thought Out - Doesn't Even Work As A Musical

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2014)

This movie - to me (and I know I differ with most others on this movie) - is precisely how NOT to make a musical.
For one thing - did they have to use old songs? There was something odd about that, and how they used them, that, to me, made this the #1 corniest musical of all time. Could they not have hired a talented songwriter or team of songwriters to craft songs that actually pertained to the story? That would have been nice.
The acting, too, is really clichéd. Even fine actors like Nicole Kidman come off badly here. Director Baz Luhrmann was going for some stylistic quirk that just made me want to gag. Poor acting is the result.
The story line is SO hokey, too - and one that you've seen hundreds if not thousands of times. Nothing new here...it's SO predictable as to make you wonder: how much thought did writers Luhrmann and Pearce put into this thing? Like the reused songs from times past, this story is a retread of a retread.
I am shocked anyone thought this was anything but a boring sappy work of an inferior mind.