How can you not love it

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2001)

I have read some po-faced reviews of Moulin Rouge in the UK, and I just can't believe it! It seems that most reviewers are either so sad, cynical and jealous as to refuse anyone else a great time, or they have simply lost the ability to melt into a movie house seat and lose themselves in a movie that entertains with a capital E. What an amazing concept, what a great cast, what eye candy! Weeks after seeing it, I still have occasional flashes of the set, the dancing, the hilarious music mixing, etc. I'm not ashamed to say I'm Australian, but neither do I feel I am one-sided in my support for the film. It is great in anyone's language, whoever made it and wherever/whenever it was made. (Although it is unmistakably Baz Lurhmann, after the excellent Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juilet).