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Movie: Golden Globe nominated Christina Aguilera in 'Burlesque'
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Originally posted by R`0`K`R
I saw it today and I thought it was great! I would give it a 7 or 8 out of 10.
I kept forgetting Ali was CHRISTINA AGUILERA! Except when she opened her mouth!! haha I loved the setup for Tough Guy!
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Originally posted by .Chad.
I absolutely loved it. It was a fun, campy, good old time at the movies. Obviously not meant to be taken all that seriously. It's a popcorn movie, plain and simple. Christina did a good job with what she was given (which as far as characterization goes, wasn't much.)
In fact, the lack of character-development was pretty much my only problem. Every single role was basically just a caricature, no one was developed beyond their first impression.
We basically get...
The up and comer
The club owner who knows the in and outs of the business.
Her gay best friend/stage manager
The sexy bartender
The bitch
The girl who gets pregnant and leaves an opening
The bad guy
The ex-husband
No character is developed beyond that description, but the cast did a great job regardless. Cher and Kristen easily stole each of their scenes.
As far as stand-out scenes go...
"But I'm A Good Girl"
Kristen/Cher's parking-lot face-off.
Kristen pulling the plug on the show.
Cam's naked "cookie box" scene
"Show Me How You Burlesque" finale.
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I'm so happy you liked it!! 
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Soundtrack :
Nº 3 en USA
Nº 4 en Canadá
iTunes USA
SMHYB #43
Express #68
Burlesque BSO #6
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1. Harry Potter 7 $14,465,000
2. Tangled $11,600,000
3. Burlesque $2,800,000
It's not 3 mil. after all but still...I hope this is good too.
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REVIEW by The GUARDIAN newspaper (UK)
3/5 stars.
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Like the dancers on Sunset Boulevard, Burlesque knuckles down, scrubs up, and makes the goddamn best of things
What do Cher and Christina Aguilera share, other than top billing in this double diva musical? Foghorn vocals, for a start: a large part of Burlesque sounds like whales stuck in traffic. Immobile faces, also: Cher's has been sanded into death mask perfection, while Aguilera's seems simply glazed with vacuity, frozen in a semi-pout, half-human, half-dolly, unshakably impassive beneath a permanently sunlit bouffant.
But what Burlesque highlights is the differences between them: Cher can act, while Aguilera, making a belated move from pop to cinema (she's 29), has neither the knack nor the charisma to compensate. There's a knock-on effect in the dignity department, too – Cher, 64, in crotch-skimming leotard, somehow hangs onto hers, while Aguilera's cheery thrusting merely frightens. The saving grace of Steve Antin's film is that, like the dancers in the ailing club at the centre of the film, it just knuckles down, scrubs up, and makes the goddamn best of things. Which may or may not involve the sabotage of its leading lady.
Aguilera plays Ali, a small-town girl with a big heart and dreams to match. The first scene shows her slaving away in Dwight's diner, Nowheresville, then, after closing time, dropping the blinds, hopping on a table and belting out a tune. It's a shame this comes so early – the big reveal when she later wows the crowd would be stronger if we hadn't been so recently assaulted by those killer pipes.
Ali, who has no family and appears ominously friendless, moves to LA and sets her sights on a burlesque club on Sunset Boulevard, all bright lights and big tassels and Alan ******* on the door (he later takes to the stage with two contortionists and a banana). It's managed by world-weary songstress Tess (Cher) and camp seamstress Sean (Stanley Tucci, reprising his role from The Devil Wears Prada, with tie switched for a feather boa). Ali starts off waitressing but it's not long before her star is born and the club looks like it might not need to accept a buyout offer from an evil property developer.
The key scene comes when a disgruntled dancer complains to Tess that she's been shunted out of the limelight: "I will not be upstaged by some **** with mutant lungs." Cher tuts and pleads long-term loyalty: "Remember all those times I held your hair back as you vomited up everything but your memories."
It's wonderful stuff, not just because the latent cattiness finally bubbles to the surface but because, crucially, it doesn't involve Ali. Rather, it involves her ridicule. Given that she's supposed to be such a lovable heroine, the supporting cast have remarkable licence to roll their eyes whenever she speaks.
And it's this tension that rescues Burlesque – a film cursed with being too competent to be a Showgirls-style guilty pleasure, and too ropey to be really recommendable. Two divas, one stage – you do the maths.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010...ue-film-review
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"The thought "it's terrible, you'll love it!" best sums up Christina Aguilera's movie debut. Her Mickey Mouse Club cohort Britney Spears hasn't acted in a film since Crossroads (some would argue she didn't act during...), so Christina is probably well aware of the importance of a good first impression. In Burlesque she's backed up by Cher for a relentlessly razzle-dazzle campfest that displays her considerable pipes and questionable acting range. The result is something that's both watch-through-your-fingers awful and dementedly entertaining - so bad it could almost be Showgirls.
Christina plays an Iowa girl who longs to break out of small-town life and 'make it' in the big city. Her talent is singing and dancing, as she demonstrates with an out-of-nowhere rendition (hey, it's a musical!) of 'Something's Got A Hold On Me' whilst gyrating around a chair. Before long Ali is in Los Angeles and waiting the tables of Tess (Cher) and Sean's (Stanley Tucci) burlesque joint. With the club in financial turmoil, a desperate Ali takes to the stage and makes an immediate impression. Tess feigns ambivalence, but for Sean the genie is well and truly out of the bottle. "I couldn't take my eyes of her," says Tucci, who parachutes into the movie at the odd interval to dish out a pointed zinger or pinch a dancer's arse.
Ali manages to catch the eyes of engaged bartender Jack (Cam Gigandent) and Marcus (Eric Dane), the property mogul looking to buy out the Burlesque Lounge. Her arrival also disrupts Nikki, the club's queen bee dancer who refuses to be upstaged by "a **** with mutant lungs". Conflicts boil, romance is ignited and Cher admirably strains to show more than one facial expression. The iconic Oscar/Cannes/Emmy/Golden Globe/Grammy winner headlines the movie but is often on the sidelines, turning up to lend a motherly air and remind us every ten minutes that the club's in trouble and about to close. She does get one moment alone in the musical spotlight (literally), which has to be seen to be fully comprehended.
Helmer Steve Antin swerves in all the directions you'd expect, concocting a plucky underdog tale that's at ease with its fizzing dance numbers, yet completely lost when it comes to story, character and dialogue. That said, the cast is beautiful, Cher is Cher, and it's at times cringingly funny, like when Tess is bartering with James Brolin (!) and Ali keeps leaning across to underline her points as if saying "Cher said it, so there!" The wheels of self-awareness tumble off in the last half-an-hour, though, and it all becomes too serious and earnest as it skims issues of corporate greed. It's much more fun when Christina's wannabe is busting moves at random on the street like an escaped mental patient.
Burlesque will likely sate the desires of both its stars' hardcore fanbases and register on the guilty pleasures list, but it's epically contrived and, like some kind of gay Avatar, completely weightless underneath all the surface sheen. It could have been worse... it could have been Glitter!"
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Good movie.
A little long and slow, and Cher was a pretty bad actress but it was good 
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Cher was the only good thing about it. Not as bad as Glitter but not that great either.
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
Good movie.
A little long and slow, and Cher was a pretty bad actress but it was good |
Cool, I'm glad you enjoyed it
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Originally posted by Wildhope
Cher was the only good thing about it. Not as bad as Glitter but not that great either.
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Oh, you actually saw the movie  I thought you didn't like Christina (and you don't) 
But thank you for supporting them. Did you at least like the musical numbers?
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Originally posted by rihannar0x8
Cher was a pretty bad actress but it was good |
Academy Award winner Cher, you mean? 
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I have to wait til February to see it... 
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Originally posted by Raguabros
Academy Award winner Cher, you mean? |
Her Botox and weird man voice were upstaged by Xtina.
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US Itunes songs:
SMHYB --> #41
Express --> #71
US albums
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I wanna see it again tomorrow 
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Originally posted by .::Andreita::.
[B]US Itunes songs:
SMHYB --> #41
Express --> #71
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SMHYB --> #38
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Originally posted by Matty
I wanna see it again tomorrow |
GO!!!
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