Burlesque: Musical Hell Review #42
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Christina Aguilera and Cher star in a movie that's mostly an excuse to let Christina Aguilera and Cher sing, and to play a game of "spot the cliche" with Diva.
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“Glamor Makeover: Which consists of red lipstick, some highlight, and a cat’s eye eyeliner.
Wow... that is so basic
Don't forget pencil brow and grey Eyeshadow.
and she looked better before
Fun fact: in Chicago Catherine zeta-Jones was pregnant during filming but it was actually her doing all of her dance sequences
She is a total boss for accomplishing all that choreography. Emily Blunt must’ve taken some cues for “Into the Woods” although she had minimal choreography
Wow, I’m surprised she didn’t broke her water (is that how is pronounced?) in the middle of filming.
Maybe I’m a bit too common denominator, but I thought the “oh god please don’t have the flu… oh god please have the flu” line was funny.
Same.
Same. It caught me by surprise like "damn wait a minute that was pretty good"
It’s not funny on paper, but Cher’s delivery is spot-on
I love the comedic timing and delivery of that line.
Same. Probably the one joke that actually landed for me!
This is somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine. It a cliché mess, but at least everyone looks like they're having fun with it, especially Christina.
Same. It's weird: if its name starts with B and has a large amount of critic-driven mindless detractors, I end up liking it. Not just Burlesque, but also stuff like Britney Spears and Breadwinners (the latter of which has a HUGE and militant, not to mention unjustified, hatebase).
Cam too, he's hot, I'm not gay, but he's a handsome guy.
A lot of the trouble with this is that it's not a movie with musical parts - the movie is meant to just string together the musical parts. it's not a great story, but I don't think it deserves a lot of the hate it gets, and I enjoyed the musical numbers. My worst problem with this video is how it takes the fiancees side in the final fight and assumes that she's the aggrieved party who's being lied about. I know these reviews are by a demon, but that still seems rather uncharitable.
I still enjoy this movie despite it's drawbacks and I have always loved Christina.
And as poorly cast and poorly developed Cher’s character is, she still has some funny lines.
You know what would've made an interesting rivalry? Tess takes Ali's advice to do live singing and hey, Bell's character is really good at singing at it actually saves her career! Then the tension would really be more valid, and it would justify Bell's character still being employed.
....now I'm even more disappointed with this thing. I like Kristen Bell, and her singing, and that plot idea would actually put her talent to good use! I'd watch THAT!
Here's a drinking game idea. Take a shot everytime the cash register sound effect goes off in this review.
If I were to do that then I'd be able to use drunken fist perfectly or dead
tim5fl Instant Death
Even if it were shots of water, I'd die from overhydration.
tim5fl well. Guess I’m dead
You'd probably be dead in the first five minutes if you tried.
There's so much weird logic behind this. If they're struggling financially why do they have a live band playing along to recorded tracks? Why didn't they just use the recording?
I havent seen this movie so take what I saw with a grain of salt but if the audience thinks that the singers are singing live, they would probably find it weird that the music they're singing to comes from nowhere
Kalin Moultrie that logic falls apart when they play a different song or use a different girl. Two people can't sound exactly the same and singers can't dramatically change their voice. My guess is that the band plays between sets or they play along so the music is more pronounced.
To a degree, it’s kind of obvious lip sync performances, akin to drag or most strip shows that do things like this. It’s a fantasy kind of situation. Additionally, the bands can mix between songs when all they have are lyric tracks that are being switched between. Fun stuff happens when you can play but not sing live.
@@GuiSmith But drag shows normally don’t have a band in addition to the track. They normally just play the track. Like I guess they can do stuff in between but that seems silly given their situation.
@@hydrokineticpowerhouse Besides, it isn't weird to hear live singers against a recorded track anyways.
But you didn't mention how it misrepresents real life burlesque with its lack of striptease and pasties and how they made an incredibly lame version of Manson's The Beautiful People.
I worked in strip clubs way back in 1969-1972 and NO ONE 'danced' Broadway-style. We stripped which is an artform. You are on stage fully clothed and lose it one item after the other while focusing on the men in the audience, going from face to face, looking into their eyes, in a teasing way. It is an art form. The dancing in these movies are a million miles from real burlesque. Usually, a man doing jokes comes on stage to get laughs.
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Um, genuinely curious here, not trying to be rude, but how is striping an "art form" and not just a form of sex work and legal prostitution? I mean, I know pole dancing is a great performance art and I'm considering going into pole dancing myself for core and upper body strength training, but how is striping the same?
@@bethanymcmurtrey9542 because one they arent actually about to have sex and two they are dancing while taking one piece of clothing off at a time. it is an art form. how can you compare that to sex work and prostitution when they arent having sex at all. sex is never involved in burlesque.
PBG to say “sex is never involved in burlesque” isn’t entirely true. It’s a very sexy and sensual and provocative form of dance, and a strip tease. It is a form of art and expression, but it’s definitely sexy. The clothing is revealing but there’s enough there for the imagination and a lot of the dance moves are very sensual and teasing. Just because they’re not actually having sex on stage doesn’t mean sex isn’t a part of burlesque.
With 'The Beautiful People,' we dodged a bullet there.
Sooooo basically Chicago+Cabaret +Moulin Rouge but nothing of substance came out of it
Add in Influences of Gypsy to taste and you get Burlesque!
It also has kind of Coyote Ugly vibes. And that movie Britney Spears was in once.
Crossroads?
you could probably throw in that cliche piece of trash showgirls while you're at it just because
Me and my fiancé were discussing this and realised that:
1) Cats Don’t Dance did the same story better.
2) We still love this movie anyway, cliched or otherwise.
Cats Don't Dance also delt with the issues of early Hollywood, had creative set pieces, and MUCH better music.
So you're sentencing Showgirls: Friendship is Magic today? Good luck.
I sense someone here came from Todd In The Shaddows.. ^.^
Hey Eli!
TheHeroOfTomorrow brohoof
Don't compare MLP to this crap.
OMG. That is exactly what it is.
Why Diva, I'm shocked you didn't want to point out the list of cliche lines Christina Aguilera throws at Cher when begging for a job during her audition. Seriously, you could probably google which film each of those lines came from. They're that cheesy
+XxBroadwaygonnabexX Believe me, if I made a note of every cliched line in this movie (especially in the "please, I'm young and eager to prove myself!" category), the episode would still be running.
True, but few films have the stupidity to put them in one on top of the other. How Cher resisted rolling her eyes during that mess I'll never know
Hey, Diva, I critiqued this video.
As for +XxBroadwaygonnabexX, it appears that Cher doesn't like this film. As for Aguilera, I haven't checked.
Didn't Cher get busted for trying to bribe them into giving her a Golden Globe nomination for this?
Tate Hildyard everyone deserves an award for taking their roles as seriously as they did
I also hate the idiot misunderstanding breakup cliche. There are films that I literally lose all respect for when it shows up. "Maybe the original Shrek wasn't very good, I mean we're doing this tripe."
honestly the "makeover" was like the one from She's All That... you're Christina Aguilera your face is already PERFECT what more do you want????
Every time Alli mouthed off to Tess, I thought "Oh man, Cher's gonna let her have it now!" But instead, Alli just got her way each time. The only time Cher reacted the way I would have expected her to was when she broke that one girl's tail light.
Assuming the rich villain guy really did have feelings for Ali, couldn’t she have tried to convince him to keep the club up and not bulldoze it, even if he buys it?
The sad part, as with most of your Musical Hell reviews, is that you can almost see a grain of what could have been. This has the makings of a potentially terrific stage musical sending up all of these tropes, provided you could fit the shoe-horned musical numbers into some kind of a workable plot. (There might even be the potential, a la the Shrek musical, for fitting in a lot of theater throwbacks just to play "spot the reference." I mean, the minute I saw the "glamorous makeover" moment with the close-up of Aguilera in the mirror, the first words out of my mouth were "I'm a pretty girl, Momma!") Maybe someday this movie will have enough cult status for people to pull a Xanadu on it.
+Gibson DelGiudice I didn't even catch the "Gypsy" reference--good one! Todd in the Shadows also pointed out that the first fantasy sequence rips off the part where Roxie imagines herself into the act from "Chicago", and one of Ali's songs in the middle rips off "Maybe This Time" from "Cabaret".
I thought the reason the woman was vomiting was because she might have been bulimic.
That was my first thought, too. Of course, I watched Heathers recently, so....
"Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87."
No, that could of created an interesting subplot
I remember being pretty dissapointed when I first saw the movie, and it didn't even had a duet between Christina Aguilera and Cher. I mean, with all the lazy tropes they put in there one would think that at least that could save the movie from bein utterly boring (like at least they are better singer than actrecesses) but nooooo they couldn't bother.
Really? I saw it in the cinema and the entire audience was laughing the whole way at the camp. I don’t think it takes itself seriously personally and it’s so much fun.
Wow, the amount of cliches in this movie is staggering. Heck, you pointing out the cliches was much more entertaining than the actual movie ever was.
It would have been entertaining if she used her words and not the completely unfriendly to blind people or just people listening to it while doing chores or anything that involves not looking at the words with "CHA-CHING" over and over. As it is, it's only funny when she's NOT pointing out the tropes. It's just annoying as it is.
Ali is transmisogynistic, mildly homophobic, technically swipes money from others, pushy, loud, a bad roommate, and rude. It's like what 12 year old me would have written as a strong female character, except all the writers involved were at least twice that age when they wrote it.
What’s interesting is that they guy who played Rick in The Last American Virgin wrote and directed Burlesque.
I would want to see movie where main character acts like Ali but instead of other characters Being like "hey you're nice, let's be friends" they are like us, "wtf bitch?"
For example the scene where Jack is asking her help with a rent and she demands whole wardrobe and bedroom. Instead he Being like "haha Ali you are so funny" he would be like "I ask for your help and you basically blackmail me? What sort of friend are you? Get out of my House, I can find another room-mate!"
She was JUST complaining about how expensive rent would be at another apartment. Jack's offer is already saving her at least $400.
I was working in cinemas when this was released.
We had SO many people asking for refunds after seeing this film!
I know this movie is terrible but I love it. I ignore the plot altogether and just sing and dance to the musical numbers.
The best Third Act Breakup I ever saw was in "White Nights", when Gregory Hines and his Russian wife have an argument--which (SPOILER) is staged, recorded, and played back to divert the KGB.
I LITERALLY DROPPED EVERYTHING WHEN I SAW THIS WAS UP
WRECK THIS MOVIE, DIVA
Oh, what I wouldn't give to see Alan Cumming's Emcee and the Kit Kat girls dance these clowns right off the stage. :)
+Amie Fortman Yeah, isn't it ridiculous for a movie called Burlesque be rated PG-13 and feature less sexy, scanty dancing than Cabaret, which was rated PG(!) in 1972?!
harrietamidala1691 I guess they didn't want to make it look unglamorous or anything. Kind of like the club in "Rock of Ages"--sexy, but in a safe, approachable way. Oh, and if you thought the dancing in the '72 "Cabaret" was risque, the stuff in the '98 revival will have you reaching for a plant mister. :D
i counted all the register sounds
the total was 72
Dam, you counted!
How have you NOT done Moulin Rouge yet, even though you like it? You did a good job with Sweeney...
So who do you think is a more unlikable protagonist? Mary Sue Ali or bitchy Nomi from Showgirls?
+HopelessRomantic999 Wow, tough call....I think Nomi gets the edge because she sabotages and physically injures her rival, though Ali comes a close second what with the whole "imposing on Jack's kindness, then taking over his apartment" deal.
Musical Hell At least Nomi is interesting to watch. Ali however is unlikeable and boring.
Showgirls is the better movie though. Even though it’s terrible and trashy- it’s atleast self aware and knows it’s ridiculous and campy. Showgirls actually tries to take itself seriously with all of its cliches and weird soundtrack (outside of the performance numbers).
More like an excuse to put Cher and Christina in skimpy, outfits.
Here's the thing though right, they don't need such an excuse. They're performers who dance on stage wearing skimpy outfits already. It's not shocking or even interesting to see that. Meaning the movie doesn't have any bait to it really, since you could just get off to a video of Cher or Christina shaking their asses for free on the internet. What would be nice is to see them do something unusual and unexpected. Like tone down the makeup or actually put on some clothes.
And kristen bell
I enjoy watching Burlesque but honestly only for the music and Cher and Stanley Tucci. The more watching it the more I wasn't liking certain characters. Also after hearing some other cast members singing voices question why that talent wasn't used. Actually that's probably one of several multimedia sins I hate the most. Why cast talent if you don't use it?
I heard it took them eight weeks to film all Cher's song sequences. The Humane Society kept interrupting the shoot trying to find the dying cats.
Burn! She ain't that bad broa!
I know the channels all about reviewing the bad musicals, but I'd be interested in seeing you review musicals that you like, and explaining why they're great with all their own saving graces, and even where they fall short with sins.
I’ve been forced to watch this movie several times due to it being one of my best friends favourite movies. It is cliche AF, I don’t care for the plot or it’s characters (and ESPECIALLY Cher’s vocals) but you gotta day Christina does nail all of her numbers...besides Diamonds are a girl’s best friend of course. That rendition was pretty meh.
Also the corporate villain isn’t so bad. Yes he was using Ali, but he literally saw a pair of shoes that Ali said she liked in passing and somehow tracked them down and worked out what her shoe size just after that small comment. Like m8 that’s dedication.
I know that burlesque shows originally weren't all about the striptease performances, but... is there ANY stripping in this piece of crap movie?
Yes, but no tits or ass, like, at all. And no penises of course.
I forgot the rating but I think they wanted it to be PG-13?
There is stripping in the A Guy What Takes His Time number, but that's the only one.
Sheldon Cooper also did the whole "I'll just grab a tray and start waiting tables" thing but he was soooo much more likeable while he did it. How? One line
"You don't work here!"
"Apparently no one else does either."
Oh, I just saw this, yeah, as I recently rewatched some of TBBT and while this movie isn't great, Sheldon is consistently an absolutely awful person who says and does deplorable things with no consequences and I can't stand how he treats Penny and calls it a 'menial' job to be a server.
I honestly didn't like Burlesque because, yeah, it's cliche. Also the movie copied way too much like the movie Cabaret and other Bob Fosse dance routine. It would be nice if the movie was honored of his works, but it's not. It basically show Christina sing way too much than other characters I was like give Cher, Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell and other actors chance to sing. There are most scenes don't fit with the songs. They hired big celebrities that I like to be in that movie and they barely have any screen time. The only thing I like about the movie was the songs and the actors acting performances. But the movie plot, dance choreography and how the movie was going weren't that good.
I'd heard this was a movie with Cher and always assumed she was one of the burlesque dancers, and upon finding out that she's not, I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.
Please Review Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure! She makes Ali look like a Nun!
That would be interesting, especially since Diva hates HSM.
I wouldn’t call this a musical though. It’s a movie with music inn it. Musicals have songs that progress the plot. I have made peace with this movie now that I have realized that.
Will you ever consider reviewing the infamous "The Newsies"?
If she didn't do it all these years maybe she doesn't consider it so infamous..
At last, the long-awaited review of Burlesque and you did not disappoint. I love the running gag of chiming the cliches so you don't have to say them. I look forward to the christmas episode. By the way, is it just me, or is Christina Aguilera wearing a bad blonde wig or a bad blonde dye job? Either way, it looks bad on her.
As much as I would have loved to see Eight Crazy Nights as an episode, I understand why you wouldn't want to do it--I also don't like watching a lot of gross out stuff too. I'll always have the Nostalgia Critic review at hand.
+harrietamidala1691 I think she is wearing a wig during the musical numbers--there's a bit when gay bestie Sean says he likes her hair short. She tells him she doesn't want to cut it, so he says she can wear a wig.
Sean was wearing one right then... but he wasn't. Quit lying to us, man!
I once saw a video of people who loved this movie so much they thought Cher and Christina Aguilera deserved Oscar nominations. I'm not kidding.
Wow. That's really dumb. Mostly since this film sucks.
***** Yep. Stuff like this is why musicals are still sorta seen as a joke. Which sucks since I love musicals and think they can be great.
I do see the songs deserving it, but the film itself is something that can be seen one way or the other.
Danny Stern A lot of people were upset when "You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me" didn't get an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song after winning the Golden Globe.
Alex Meyer Huh. TBH, I'm fine at people looking at this film either way, since a lot of stuff falls into the "love-it-or-hate-it" category. I've noticed this with Napoleon Dynamite, the Peanuts francise, Ed, Edd n Eddy... several others. I just don't want a ton of "YOUR A IDIOT FOR LIKEING WHUT I DONT LIKE!!!!!!1!!!" or something similar.
They wasted Stanley Tucci?! How dare they!
There should have been a cliche count in the corner whenever one happened.
Is it me or is this just Showgirls the musical?
You're not the only one. One reviewer even nicknamed the movie Showgirls: Friendship is Magic.
Fun fact
Cher’s song “You Haven’t Seen The Last Of Me” was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, which is one of the two good things in the entire movie (the other good thing is the decent acting from Christina Aguilera, Kristen Bell and “i don’t know why the Razzies nominated her as Worst Supporting Actress” Cher
5:32 Ya. Hell, some demons in ANIME actually HELP the heroes (I'm not sure the tailed beasts in Naruto count, but in "Blue Excorcist" actual demons can form strong bonds with the school's students. Even the HERO of that anime ends of befriending a demon cat name Kuro...)
When you’re the 1% who actually likes the movie.
I like it but I recognize that it is not good.
It’s so much fun! I laugh every time I see it!
As a previous waitress, the idea of Ali coming in and waiting tables without any word with the manager annoys me because of how much fucking confusion it would cause all of the waitresses and bartenders. She really just came in and fucked up some poor ladies' night who was trying to make money in Vegas just to... prove a point? Fuck, just to feel a sense of justice after that scene, I'm imagining all of the waitresses going out back and beating up Ali after that.
Also, a simple idea that I think would help to fix the movie, have Ali start training BEFORE she's reluctantly given the chance to prove herself. This grounds the character back to reality (even dancers in Broadway and Vegas have long-ass dance rehersals to learn the choreography) and it gives her a reason to want the one bedroom, because she wants room to practice in private instead of going into the living room and doing wild hand motions. It also would give the bartender whose name I had already forgotten something to do. Maybe he sees her practicing in the living room or bedroom one day and vouches for her to the owners, saying that she works hard and is REALLY trying. This also helps cement their friendship because he trusted her enough to stick his neck out for her.
Maybe him watching her learn and master the sexy choreography is a turn on for him, like at first, he thinks she looks silly and he's happy to see her not taking herself so seriously, and trying to get it, then she's finally looking powerful and getting it and he's like ooh okay fuck, she;'s kind of hot though.
Maybe show that she's practicing by marking some of the moves in the back by the bar, like doing hip rolls while she's waiting for the bartender guy to give her the drinks, listening to the old jazz tracks playing on her headphones, making breakfast while adding in little accents that the dancers did. (pouring like frosted flakes and doing Burlesque arms or something)
Maybe that's a reason also why Kristen Bell's character hates her too. She sees the bartender sticking his neck out for Ali and is like 'yo, no man, or person, ever did that for me. I literally clawed my way through a BFA and all I got in return is working in a Vegas Burlesque house lipsynching to old jazz tracks.' Maybe give Kirstin Bell a bad previous relationship where a man tried to hold her back and keep her from dancing at this Burlesque (he thinks it's gaudy or whatever) and that's why she's so bitchy, she CAN'T let anybody upstage her or do better because, in her mind, this is why she's doing it all. To prove this ex, and herself, wrong.
It also gives her a reason to already be really good at this when she goes to the rehearsals, she's been working her ass off this whole time and nobody but the bartender has really been noticing. Pit him on her side and make him and Cher the two people in her corner because Ali has the kind of bite that reminded Cher of herself at that age. (Maybe Cher's character had to do something similar to prove herself in what would have been a male-dominated entertainment industry and is like, damn, if Ali has the bite I did, she can be even better than I was)
it's not really anything LESS cliche'd but in my opinion, it uses the cliche's better
oh my god, thank you for tearing this film a new one. I really can't stand Christina's character in this film.
You know, Tess could have avoided this whole mess if she'd just called Jon Taffer
I gotta hand it to this, Aly could've been going to L.A. to hit it big as an actress! Like a certain another movie musical( Cough Cough LaLa Land!)
This movie came out long before LaLa land
I actually (accidentally) ended up seeing this in the cinema when it first came out. I recalled reading a review on Roger Ebert’s (may he RIP) website of a theatrically-released documentary on burlesque’s ‘golden age’ that piqued my interest, and mistook the title on the local cinema marquee for that. I was subsequently blown away by the film’s audacity in ratcheting up as many cliches as humanly possible in the space of a mere ninety minutes. If there’s anything worse than a bad movie, it’s a merely competent one that makes no effort whatsoever to be memorable or otherwise distinct. If not for the title track song (which I thought was pretty catchy) and the presence of Alan Cumming, the experience would have automatically deleted itself from my memory the second I left the theater.
1:21 They even copied the main riff from Marilyn Manson's 'The Beautiful People'!
+Gregory House It sounds like Michael Jackson's "Stranger in Moscow" as well... and for that matter, the credits to Sonic the Hedgehog 3. In fact, that *is* Marilyn Manson's song.
The thing is you *could* salvage this movie with just the smallest amount of genre savvy or even really amping up the cliches and making some type of commentary around that like Into the Woods. I’m not even sure who this is supposed to be for: it’s not sexy enough to bank on that, the talent they have is wasted, and if you just wanted new music from Christina and/or Cher, then just get the soundtrack and skip over all this. At least Moulin Rouge! knows what it is and wants to be the best, most bombastic, ridiculous version of itself.
You _circle_ the ads you are thinking of applying for. When it does not work out, you don't go back to cross out the ad.
It is odd how this trope persists despite the fact that we have all been looking jobs at one point or other.
This is like a PG-13 rated Showgirls.
You know what? This movie could have just been about Cher and her side of the story. About her struggling to hold on to something she's worked hard at her whole life, about how SHE became a burlesque girl and grew it into a business. I think that would have been much more interesting. Also, her solo would have fit in a lot better.
"Burlesque" is so generic that you could make a drinking game out of it! 🍺
I'm surprised you didn't noticed more of the Cabaret rip-offs. The titles use the same font, the club's stage has the same light pronemium, Alec Cumming out front, the "Welcome" opening song.
Anna from Frozen was in this? Oh my God. That's as bad as Elsa being in Rent's movie (and I haven't even seen it).
Yup. Ali also says "let it go" because sure.
+The Medi Monitor Idina Menzel was in Rent, though, because with the exception of Rosario Dawson, all the other cast members of the film, were, like Idina, part of the original Broadway cast of Rent.
+Danny Stern Yep.
+Alex Meyer Oh.
Anyone think Diva of Musical Hell finds Frozen 1 to be a guilty pleasure??
The bailiff's giggle sounds particularly childish in this video. Was it take your devilspawn to work day in hell today?
You can see better real burlesque numbers in many of Ed Wood, Jr.'s films (yes, THAT Ed Wood, Jr.). There's also a fascinating documentary, TEASERAMA (1955), which features a number of performers, including comedian Joe E. Ross and a female impersonator. Christine A is no Lili St. Cyr.
The movies main girls hopes and dreams/chatacter are the same exact thing as the movie coyote ugly smh 😅
I watched this with my grandmothers one day (bc they said they liked it and i was over there), and after it ended i said it was like rock of ages tried to be cabaret, but failed miserably. Kinda glad you did this, it was cathartic (idk if thats the right word) to watch
If we're talking about Alan Cumming and Kristen Bell musicals, I would love you to do a video on Reefer Madness. It's one of my favourites.
Cher looks like she's doing her best to keep a straight face!
I think a lot of things would have been solved by Ali not realizing that he is straight, but realizing that he is in a relationship with a woman who is not there to say if she is or isn’t comfortable with Ali staying at her fiance’s place. It could then be solved with him assuring Ali that it’s fine and that his GF doesn’t mind (flashback to him informing his GF by phone the night before, possibly with said GF being super dismissive of the situation, planting the seeds of herr not caring about the relationship too much). True it might set up his fiancee as too much of a steriotypical bad guy, but I’m not sure we would have much time to make her a neuanced character when she’s only heard over the phone.
this video was great but the cha-ching noises were too much after a few i literally had my finger on the mute button every time you took a pause to put in a cha-ching. otherwise fantastic. wish there was a different sfx
I was actually going to say (at least in my experience) that in theatre guys are usually gay or taken. Not that they’re mutually exclusive. 😂
I feel sorry for the fiance. She deserved more than this but she was saved going on with a relationship with a selfish jackass.
So Stanley Tucci is basically playing the same character he did in devil wears prada?
So is this Rock of Ages meets Chicago or Moulin Rouge? Rock of Ages is CLEARLY gonna be present whichever way you swing, I’d just like some clarity on which other film it’s ripping off. Though I wouldn’t be disappointed to hear it’s “All the Above” either
“This isn’t a movie it’s... a hot dog.”
That’s my new favorite line to quote out of context
Cher is always been my favorite fan. But the musical film like Burlesque was extraordinary fun and I think everybody should watch this film on TV, right here, right now. Period.
I'm sorry. I had to pause 5 minutes and 30 seconds into the video to groan at the fact that Eric Dane's not only in this movie, but his character's name is Marcus. He's one of my favorite actors and appears in two of my all-time favorite TV shows, Charmed (1998) and Grey's Anatomy. His character in the latter's name is Mark Sloan. A little too close for comfort. All I can say is they really did McSteamy dirty.
Ooh, I wondered when you were going to tackle this trainwreck.
I don't mind hot-dogs, meaning movies made of obvious pieces of other movies.
Quentin Tarantino might as well be a "wurstmeister." The difference is, he knows how to make his stuff stand-out.
Other problems with this movie:
-Christina's growl gets SO annoying.
-The final number uses "burlesque" as a verb.
-Alan Cumming's character is completely unnecessary.
-Stanley Tucci's character is basically Nigel from The Devil Wears Prada all over again.
You didn't put the fact that there's plot cliches in this movie as a sin. If you did, that would total this movie to having 10 sins. You should've done that, it would've been 2015's ten-sinner
As somebody that dances around a chair once a week... I like to watch this once in a while. But just for the dance numbers xD
Wait...
You shame Burlesque for being a cliché bore fest, and yet you claim to actually like Moulin Rouge? Have you seen Moulin Rouge?! It's almost as cliché as Burlesque, if not exactly the same!
There is such a thing as a cliche-fest done right.
+Musical Hell I'd like to know what movie/musical you are talking about.
+Musical Hell by the way, you are absolutely awesome!
The thing is, Moulin Rouge compensates for its' cliche plot with a grand and unique style, and extreme talent behind and in front of the camera that are giving it their all. Burlesque on the other hand recycles and imitates stylistic techniques from better movies and the talented cast like Diva said, is forced to take a back seat and do nothing so Christina and Cher don't have to share the spotlight.
While I'm no fan of "Moulin Rouge"...call me old-fashioned,but I like a new musical to have *new music*,NOT a score made up of a two dozen songs written by two dozen people for two dozen different things...at least that movie was ambitious in what it set out to do...Musical Hell is right,this is just by-the-numbers.
This is a guilty pleasure for me. I like how cliche it all is, I find it fun.
Burlesque es de mis películas favoritas, mucha gente la juzgó severamente porque es una película con roles femeninos dos divas y que recuerda a otras películas pero justo esa es su magia, para mi ver a Cher junto a Christina fue épico, un sueño convertido en realidad, de hecho me gustaría que hubieres Burlesque 2 y que llegará Kylie Minogue!! Está película es genial y basta de continuar con tanto Hate a Christina, ella es espectacular, el reparto es super cool y Cher es una leyenda, una súper Estrella nivel omega 🤩, la música y el disco son una joya, así que para mi Burlesque es ya de culto!!
do dreamgirls please! great video!
Sounds like a great idea for a review.
Jose Lee But dreamgirls
Is a good movie musical ?
Well, it definitely has redeeming qualities (Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, the score), but it does have little irksome things that really do add up. Diva could do it similarly to how she reviewed Sweeney Todd.
+Sodapop246 8, Dreamgirls was terrible, maybe Jennifer Hudson was the only good part of it.
It’s impressive in a movie to have such a poorly done paint-by-number plot that even an internet reviewer’s running gag gets annoying after a while.
I can’t lie I love this movie. I honestly loved that it didn’t have a liar revealed trope or overly cringey embarrassing moment for its main character, both of which get done far too much in musicals. I liked the music and the aesthetic of it and it’s just a good hearted movie for me.
I'd put this above Rock of Ages cause Rock of ages had no story by the time Shankman was done with it.
Never thought I'd ever watch a hot dog...
I watched a hot dog once, it was pretty
I tried watching this movie once...and deleted it off my DVR after 5 minutes, it was THAT boring!
16:40 This might be the worst version of it yet.
“You really said all those things about me?”
*”You really fucking believe the woman I just broke up with and is clearly not over me yet?!”*
Watching the movie, I rolled my eyes so hard, I think they rolled into the back of my skull
Literally just saw this and yeah, I agree that it was very clichéd and not my thing. The only thing I'd say in its defense is that there really are musicians who can play full songs after hearing only a cew notes, so that isn't far fetched. Even the fake singers, while they probably would have sucked, would have known the song well enough to sing along
I can't decide it Aly is a step up or down from Phoebe Halliwell. Show your work in the space provided!
Brandy Loutherback Well, Aly never became Queen of the Underworld....so there’s your answer. Also, I feel like Phoebe is a self-insert character rather than a Mary Sue. There is a little bit of a difference.
For the first time since March 15, 2020, I'm about to rewatch the "Burlesque" episode.
EDIT- 2:05 A.M.: *finishes episode 21 minutes later*
It's a shame that this *generic* movie wasted its talented cast! 😒
Wauw! This thing is built of clichés from start to finish!
I legit watched for Dianna Agron cameo. lol how dare you she is so much better than Cristina.
8:17 I burst into laughter when I heard this.