NINE - The Movie Musical - Review Thread — Page 2

"The Fact that the Hollywood Reporter reviewer thinks that Sweet Charity was a pretty terrific film tells you right there he doesn't really know what he is talking about. "

I noticed this, too. Sweet Charity was a huge bomb. I love when critics put on their rose-colored glasses and cite a flop original as being superior to a remake or revival. Credibility goes right out the window.

What's wrong and what's right with 'Nine'

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Rotten Tomato score is totally irrelevant at this point. It has 7 reviews, and only two important ones (Variety is positive, THR negative). A major release will have upwards of 120.

Its here because the film's reviews from London and the major trades have been printed. Most of the major reviews won't be printed until either the 18th or the 25th, but monthly magazine publications will also be printing reviews this week.

For the record there are several reviews that have been posted - both positive and negative in this thread that are not from reviewers, but bloggers, whose opinions mean no more or less than any of you who print your opinions on this website.

and these will, or have been printed on Rotten Tomatoes. Was Talkin Loud mad at me for posting it was only at 43% or mad that it only GOT a 43%....?

Or at least December 18, when several major metropolitan reviews will come out.

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Travers always has a way with buzzwords. That will definitely be printing on newspaper ads and the dvd covers.

In other news Invictus is using Peter Hammond as one of their raves. Now I'm worried.

EW didn't like it very much. Owen Gleiberman gives it a C, calling special attention to his dislike of the score:

". . .when the songs are going on, Nine at least has a pulse. Yet this musical, to my ears, hasn't aged well. The melodies tend to cluster into cliché hooks (there's a lot of honking burlesque, and too many faux-'60s-Italian carnival-of-life showstoppers), and Marshall's staging lacks the thrilling unity he brought to Chicago. The numbers, while lively, remain cluttered and stage-bound.

The women, however, are spirited and sexy. Cruz performs a mock bump-and-grind with real heat, and Fergie, as an oh-so-Fellini-esque beach drifter, turns herself into a wild electric siren. If only the lyrics weren't so awful! Cotillard, a lovely presence, is martyred by having to sing such gems as 'My husband makes movies/To make them he lives a kind of dream/In which his actions aren't always what they seem!' No wonder Day-Lewis looks like he's having stomach trouble. He spends most of Nine as a haunted spectator, and you want to tell the guy to lighten up. The ? movie Guido is trying to dream doesn't look like much fun, and neither is Nine"

ETA: Sorry, I forgot the link. I've added it now.

Entertainment Weekly: Movie Review: Nine, Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman

Updated On: 12/10/09 at 01:44 AM

Gleiberman also hated the music to Dreamgirls fwiw. I distinctly remember him saying that there was not a hit song in the film.

And as much as I poked fun at Travers for being a 'quote-whore', not even an original derogative, when he likes a movie most of the time trending toward that movie being good or at least critically successful.

Down to 35% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

FWIW, here's a review from our friend Ryan O'Connor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2OnBYdqFTA

Surprised Lane did not like it. If it is deemed too exquisite by some people, it seemed up his alley since he hates anything with CGI.

Updated On: 12/14/09 at 12:24 PM

A lot of criticism seems directed at the musical itself.

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