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Burlesque is a cheesy, yet enjoyable movie which wastes its talented cast with a mundane, unoriginal 'girl's bored with the country life, girl moves to the big city and achieves an unrealistic aspiration in the space of an hour and a half' storyline. What I liked about it was the giggly one liners that kept the film from falling flat on its face; such as "if you fall off the stage; leg extended, boobs up"; adequately put by Cher.
The acting on the other hand, wasn't bad. In her debut role, Christina Aguilera isn't terrible, not amazing, but not awful; acting as Ali, the young, talented star on the move as her co-star Julianne Hough does in Rock of Ages. She performs her iconic vocal acrobatics prestigiously as if she were on stage at a live performance. Sharing the limelight, and stealing it, is global superstar and Oscar winner; Cher. Her performance as broke club owner Tess is nothing less than expected; amazing. Her, and Tucci, save the film from crawling to the box office thanks to their experience and creative improvisation skills. Cher performs two songs in the movie, "Welcome to Burlesque", cleverly sang when Ali enters the club for the first time and "You haven't seen the last of me" which, in all honesty, isn't performed in any benefit to the plot besides its' lyrics, which sing of Tess' determination not to give up on her dream. What I can't understand is when hiring a global superstar, why in one's ultimate wisdom would he/she only have her perform two songs? That's like hiring Kim Kardashian and have her model a convent uniform. Tucci, who, although less rude and more likeable, gives birth to a reincarnation of his The Devil wears Prada character. In this incarnation, he's called Sean and is Tess' gay best friend/one night stand who helps her at the club. Well acted, the character is a genuine person who, along with Tess, save the film from utter destruction at the box office. Gigandet's performance is 'okay', but I haven't seen him in anything other than Twilight to criticise him; therefor anything would be different than milk-bottle James from the first film of the franchise. Bell's character, Nikki, I didn't like. I felt she tried to play an evil, resentful woman but pulled off a spoilt brat who's annoyed because Tess, matriarch of the dancers takes away her liqueur. Hough's performance was fluid, playing fiery red-head Georgia who's replaced by Ali after discovering she's pregnant.
On the whole, I enjoyed this film; but I know many people who don't enjoy camp movies full of glitter and nipple tassels won't.
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HEY RY! Nicely written. Very interesting. I give this review 4 out of 5 stars XD
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