Moulin has things in common with both, it has Everyone’s sense of humour, broad though it may be, and it has Evita’s incorrect assumption that mainstream audiences will embrace a movie with hardly any spoken dialogue. It’s a musical that reminds old people of when movies had songs instead of sex, it’s also the first major musical since 1996’s double bill of Everyone Says I Love You and Evita. I imagine the awards it’s winning is due to it’s perceived inventiveness, to it’s opulence and lack of pretensions.
Critics have been torn, most liking it but few loving it.
Oh, and Kidman’s character has the consumption and is dying (you can tell because she coughs), so if you haven’t seen last year’s Autumn in New York, this movie does a lot of the same things. They fall in love almost immediately but must keep it secret from the investor, who is also in love with Kidman. Kidman plays a prostitute back when whore houses were classy, McGregor is a writer who gets trapped into writing an inane musical for Kidman’s attempt at becoming a serious actress. The love story is standard, the frequent song breaks get old fast and nearly every performance is over the top. Thoughts: I was surprised when Moulin Rouge started appearing on the top of year end Best of lists, and now that I’ve seen it I’m even more surprised. Other movies mentioned that I’ve seen: Scary Movie: F The Exorcist (1973): A- The Haunting (1999): B+ House on Haunted Hill (1999) - A- What Lies Beneath: A Hannibal: A- Charlie’s Angels: B+Ĭast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo I give it a slightly higher rating than it’s predecessor simply because there are one or two gags that, if they had momentum behind them, might have been funny. The fact that I didn’t just copy and paste my thoughts on the original and put them here exhibits more creativity than this movie. Their efforts to be timely, including jokes about the 2000 Presidential election and The Weakest Link, will only serve to date the movie and confuse anyone who sees it years from now. It’s all very lazy, the talking parrot is especially contrived and idiotic, the sex jokes are far fewer than they were in the first, but only because they couldn’t think of any, I’m sure - they do reuse one though. It isn’t long before they resort to reenacting a scene from last year’s Charlie’s Angels, which isn’t technically a horror movie. The writers try to make fun of movies like The Exorcist, The Haunting (the recent remake, of course, since they certainly aren’t going to reference a black and white movie), House on Haunted Hill (the recent remake, same reason), What Lies Beneath and Hannibal among others.
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Once again, the film consists of a series of mostly unrelated attempts at horror movie spoofs, and usually, when the scene changes, there’s a pathetically obvious continuity error (possibly intentional, but distracting and not funny all the same). Expectations were high, but I knew the Wayans brothers who starred in and co-wrote the movie (with a staggering five others) were one hit wonders, and the fact that the first, gawdawful Scary Movie (my pick as the worst of 2000) was a hit was just a fluke. Thoughts: I was so thrilled when this movie was defeated in it’s opening weekend by Cats & Dogs, even before I saw either of them. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - B Doug’s 1st Movie (1999) - C+ Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - D The Endurance: Shakleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) - B+ Field of Dreams (1989) - B The Fox and the Hound (1981) - C- The Gates of Hell (1980) - C- Ghosts of Mars (2001) - B The Great Mouse Detective (1986) - B+ Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) - B House of 1000 Dolls (1967) - C- Inherit the Wind (1960) - A- Julien Donkey Boy (1999) - D- Legally Blonde (2001) - B Leprechaun in the Hood (1999) - B- The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (2000) - C- Lucky Numbers (2000) - B Made (2001) - B+ Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1994-1995) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - B Offerings (1989) - C- On Golden Pond (1981) - B+ Remember the Titans (2000) - B Requiem for a Dream (2000) - B Series 7: The Contenders (2001) - B+ Sleepaway Camp (1983) - C- Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire (2000) - B+ Vertical Limit (2000) - B-Ĭast: Anna Faris, Veronica Cartwright, David Cross, Tim Curry, Chris Elliot, Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Christopher Masterson, Richard Moll, Andy Richter, Kathleen Robertson, Tori Spelling, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, James Woods Movies seen but not mentioned below: All Over the Guy (2001) - A- America's Sweethearts (2001) - C- Beautiful Joe (2000) - B- Boys Life (1995) - B+ Cabin by the Lake (2000) - B- Christina's House (2000) - C+ Cocoon: The Return (1988) - C Death on the Nile (1978) - B+ Dr. Daily Movie Watching Journal, June - December 2001 Daily Movie Watching Journal, June - December 2001
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