Burlesque (2010)

Wow! Such a good movie.

the audience applauded

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Favorite movie to watch again and again! Great story, great message and great music!

Burlesque is the best and great musical movie I've ever seen. As you know, this is musical movie, but song and dance and performance are so excellent, so people definitely listen to the voice every day. The story is that main character overcome challenges to fulfill dream, but this film is not predictable. There are many scenes of her for example,happiness and sadness and anger, so people can feel her emotion through this movie. It is good text for senior high school students and adult because this film push their back. Also, its content is brilliant, so girls and women can enjoy the time. And there are many fashionable cloth in the movie, so they may feel that I'm proud of woman. I recommend Burlesque to people who overcome challenges.

So the walking dead Cher ('Laugh In') and Christina Aguilera want to make a movie? Here comes the pain baby here comes the pain! What's next? Pauly Shore teams up with Jerry Lewis? The plot: imagine every movie clichés in history. Small town girl wants to make it as star in the big city. An older mentor shows her the way. In Cher's case she's a really older mentor. The nightclub is about to be foreclosed on by evil greedy slime balls. Yup, that's the plot. There's nothing else to say.Now get ready for the celebrity cameos. I have no idea why they think they can save this movie. Have celebrity cameos ever saved any movie? Celebrity cameos have only ever worked in goofy comedies like 'Back To the Beach.' See what I mean? The best example of celebrity cameos in film history is 'Back To the Beach!' They don't work! So Christina Aguilera goes to work at a burlesque club in LA. And it's not a gay bar! WTF? Do burlesque shows even exist outside the gay night life? Even burlesque shows in Nazixploitation films are gay bars! Whatever.Cher has obviously had way to much plastic surgery and should accept her age gracefully.... Is what I said in 1985! In 2010 this is just ridiculous! Even the most die hard Cher fan is ashamed of the way she looks. Lucio Fulci had zombies that weren't as scary as her.So their nightclub is threatened by evil condo developers. How can they solve this problem? Put on a show of course! No! They don't do anything! Cher just talks the developer out of buying their nightclub. Yup, that's the climax.In summary, I've had root canals better than this film. I'd rather endure Chester Novell Turner and Godfrey Ho's entire filmographies than see one minute of this! This isn't even worth seeing to laugh at. It's just bad. Really really bad on every level.

This is a chick flick to the bone. Now I'm not usually a fan of chick flicks, so obviously I don't like this movie.The script is a huge cliché and it has all been done before, and you're gonna guess what happens very quickly. Small-town-girl with big dreams, goes to the city, doesn't have to fight long to get that star role she wants, has a jealous female enemy, love triangle, gets the hot guy, relationship problems follow very shortly, girl solves problems, forgives the guy and everything is fine again. The end.The only strong parts about this movie is it's musical numbers, obviously, since that is Christina Aguilera's strong side. Since she's a pop star already, she's obligated to be a character that sings in her first (and hopefully last) movie. I'm not against singers in movies, and Aguilera is definitely not the worst I've seen, but her character is so thin and without depth that it goes bad anyway.The songs are good (except the ones they obviously put in to have Cher and Christina sing about their current state of mind), the dancing is very nice and the costumes dashing. I only wish I had seen more of Alan Cumming. His number with the two girls were very similar to the "Two Ladies" number Cabaret. Also, the first scene in the Burlesque club is also a huge reference/rip off to Cabaret's first musical number, which sort of made me a little excited. The biggest problem I have with this movie is that the whole Burlesque club is filled with glitter and expensive costumes and enormous props, and let's face it, Tess's financial problems could've been solved right away if she got rid of even half of those stuff and just toned down the club a bit. It would still be good, the dancer's wouldn't be any worse and it's still easy to make it look good. You don't have to make a Broadway musical to make a show good.I love the art of burlesque (both the old kind and the new kind), and this is NOT burlesque. It is a cabaret, with a little burlesque dancing. But they had to make this movie available to all the teen girls who love Aguilera out there, so actual burlesque was probably out of the question.This movie isn't horrible, but it can't be watched with a serious eye. The poor plot and the thin script is laughable and even with great music numbers, the incredible cheesiness of it all makes me not want to see this movie again.