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Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Burlesque

A young girl fed up with waitress-ing in a diner in some God-forsaken place in the Midwest, decides to pack it all in and get a one-way train ticket to LA to seek her fame and fortune.  She stumbles on the Burlesque Club run by a fading Star that features a lot of very scantily clad girls dancing their tushes off lip-syncing: a dying art in a dying business that is about to be closed by the Bank unless a miracle happens. 

 

Christina Aguilera plays the young girl, and the Star who is past her prime (!) is the fabulous Cher.  This piece of trite trash is intended as a vehicle to show us what a stunning actress Miss Aguilera is as she plays the undiscovered talent that not only wins everyone’s heart, but naturally single-handedly saves the Club too.  Trouble is that her she’s very one dimensional: great singing voice BUT its exactly the same in all the (endless) numbers that are indistinguishable from each other: and she really has only four different dance moves in what must qualify as one of the worst choreographed musicals ever.

 
Cher is Cher.  Just older than last time.  And like Ms A she gives no facial expressions at all; in her case its due to being physically unable with that new face of hers, but in her co-star’s case it is because she simple doesn’t know how to.
 
It has some funny touches with the scenes with Stanley Tucci (who seems to have captured the movie market in playing very camp middle-aged stooges these days), but not enough to rescue this lame duck.
 
RTV If you love Cher, and like Ms Aquilera scantily clad going on and on and on (the 2nd half so drags).  Or just wait for the DVD and then you can fast forward all those really bad bits.

Posted by queerguru  at  22:47


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