This is such a bad movie
Do you like the sound of pots and pans being banged in close proximity to your head? Nails on the chalkboard? Bright lights flashing frenetically in your face? How about I sweeten the deal and throw in hackneyed accents & speech impediments, campy sound effects, manic jump cuts, incessant cribbing of pop songs sung off-tempo, freaking narcolepsy as a plot device, mustache-twisting baddies and wrap it up in a cliched storyline? That, my friends, is Moulin Rouge--a spectacular mess of a movie that never should have been made.
To quote the great Roger Ebert, speaking about another movie:
Those who think [Moulin Rouge] is a great or even a good film are, may I tactfully suggest, not sufficiently evolved. Film by film, I hope they climb a personal ladder into the realm of better films, until their standards improve. Those people contain multitudes. They deserve films that refresh the parts others do not reach. They don't need to spend a lifetime with the water only up to their toes.share