worst film I've seen in years

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 2002)

What a dreary experience Moulin Rouge was. It's the worst film I've seen in years. The story was unoriginal and mostly predictable, the songs mainly banal (though I admit there are few American musicals whose songs attract me much), and Ewan McGregor can't sing - he just opens his mouth too wide and sounds come out. Nicole Kidman made quite a good fist of her singing opportunities, though. She, and maybe Jim Broadbent's comic talent, were the only aspects of the film worth the trouble of sitting through it. (I did so because my wife mildly enjoyed it).