Click here to copy URL

Burlesque

2010

Steve Antin

Christina Aguilera, Cher, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci ...

5.5

7,885

Musical. Drama. Romance Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess (Cher), the club's proprietor and headliner. Burlesque's outrageous costumes and bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue, who vows to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer	"'Burlesque' is a preposterous and intermittently entertaining lesson in how to make a movie musical with a little brains and a lot of talent"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The burlesque shows in 'Burlesque' feature no nudity, no striptease, (...) 'Burlesque' offers burlesque as if it died and went to heaven. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Scott Bowles USA Today	"Tucci is great and underused, and Cher acquits herself nicely in her first film role in seven years. But writer/director Steve Antin has his stars sashaying between dance numbers with little narrative thread"	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A movie that quickly proves achingly dull, with none of the madness, verve or talent of Paul Verhoeven's "Showgirls" or even the workmanlike energy of Rob Marshall's "Chicago."	NEG

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.