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| Movies,
Graham Bower,
02:00:00,
01 October 2001 |
Rating: F1
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I don’t think I’m overstating things to claim that I was made to feel physically sick by this movie – and it wasn’t as a result of the copious amounts of popcorn I consumed to take my mind off the cringe-worthy events that were unfolding on the screen before me.
Who would ever have imagined that Ewan McGregor, dressed up in period costume bellowing corny pop medleys into the long suffering ear of Nicole “rebound” Kidman could make for an entertaining trip to the picture house. One can only assume that McGregor agreed to do it because he felt the world needed to hear his extraordinary voice, and Kidman only agreed because her separation from Cruisy-boy has left her in a delicate frame of mind. Well Ewan, the world has got two words for you mate, shut up. We were with you all the way in Train Spotting as you emerged from the shit-spattered toilet bowl, you had our sympathy as you walked through The Phantom Menace and now this. This is how you choose the repay us.
If there is one redeeming feature to this movie, it has to be the art direction, which is, I think without exception extraordinary. I guess you would expect no less from Baz Luhrmann, director of the fantastic movie Romeo & Juliet. Sorry Baz but you went a bit off the boil with this one.
Now call me a traditionalist, but in a movie about the Moulin Rouge I expect a little sex – just a tiny bit of it – I mean I’m not talking Showgirls (although a repeat of the pool scene starring Ewan and Nicole could have been amusing) but surely a visit to the legendary Parisian strip-club should offer something more than a giant papier-mâché elephant, however beautiful that elephant may be. Throughout the movie, characters make reference to their being part of some supposed “shadowy underworld” but from what I could see, more goes on of a night down the pub than this lot gets up to in what is supposed to be the worlds most famous strip joint.
Don’t go to this one without ear plugs.
UK rating:
12
US rating:
PG-13
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo, Richard Roxburgh
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