
Moulin Rouge: "The most important thing is to love... and be loved in return."
Review created: 02/16/02
by: mkp51 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Excellent acting, well done music, garishly entertaining.
Cons:
Overly simplistic story line.
With my somewhat... shall we say... conservative... tastes in movies and books, it came as somewhat of a surprise to me the other day that I would even consider sitting down and watching Moulin Rouge, much less buying it on DVD. Yet, that's exactly what I did. What came as even a bigger surprise to me is that I liked it. I liked it a lot. That's not to say that Moulin Rouge didn't take a bit of getting used to. Five minutes into the film and I felt my senses being bombarded with frenetic, over-the-top, somewhat hard to follow (and swallow) scenes. "Geez," I kept thinking to myself, "how much..
Review ID: 10000000004533983

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