The Great....Big pile of garbage

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2013)

OK, so I am not a fan of either of the 2 male leads in this movie. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire are both famous Overactors, and it shows once again.
The story is sound but I instantly knew that the director had to be the same one that made the movie Moulin Rouge. I was right. The difference? That movie was new, fresh, sexy and fun. This movie is not that. It's cheesy, annoying, and a waste of film as they were just trying to capture the magic of that past film. I should have looked to see who the director was first instead of wasting a couple hours watching it. It combines the same type of musical style as Moulin Rouge, but there was and added horror of watching the overly dramatic feel of the equally stupid movie "Australia."
Look, this movie would have been fine if it was on stage, on Broadway. As a feature film it just blows. Keep the overly dramatic soap opera crap where it belongs. I can see why this movie was pushed so hard. Because otherwise it would have completely and totally failed. Another slight of hand, they gave DiCaprio top billing when he was really just a supporting actor to the equally cheesy Tobey Maguire. Dicaprio as predicted, overacted to death, and flashed his equally fake smile in every shot he was in. Please tell this dude to tone it down. As for Maguire, well let's face it, every character he plays comes off as some sort of 15 year old naive Disney character from one of those old movies like "chitty-chitty bang bang.
A movie's success should not be made on how much they make at the box office. A movie's success should be measured on how long it takes for the person that scraped together the $20 to buy a ticket to look at their watch or cell phone begging for a reason to leave after it starts
It's a 5...