A cabaret-styled musical about small-town girl Ali (Christina Aguilera), who ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by Tess (Cher), a former dancer.
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess struggles to keep the aging theatre alive in the face of distracted dancers and a threat from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot. Ali, hired by Tess as a waitress, escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. The club's fortune changes when Ali's booming voice is discovered and makes her the main attraction...
But Burlesque critically fails to reach the giddy batshit-crazy highs that buoyed Verhoeven’s crapsterpiece, and is content to merely gloss up a oft-told story with ‘tastefully’ concealed T & A, shaken with intensity on stage.
Full reviewAn overwrought, underwritten hootchy-kootchy tuner that desperately wants to be "Cabaret," but lacks the edge and historical context to pull it off.
Full reviewNominated for a Golden Globe for best Musical/ comedy seems entirely apt for Burlesque.
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Once again, Bob Fosse's "Cabaret" haunts the stage with derbies and splayed legs, but with results that are strictly Sally Bowdlerized.
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Like the dancers on Sunset Boulevard, Burlesque knuckles down, scrubs up, and makes the goddamn best of things
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Burlesque shows Cher and Christina Aguilera being all that they can be, and that's more than enough.
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Women will love this, and men won't mind the eye candy either, so it looks like this Screen Gems release can't help becoming a hit.
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Intentionally or not, it might be the comedy of the year. The music and dance are thrilling and the costumes saucy enough to satisfy, but the whole is so camp and clichéd that it must be deliberate. Right?
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