Burlesque
A small-town girl with a sonorous voice absconds her awful life to pick up a new beginning in LA.
1987, Netherlands
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
4 August 1985, San Juan, Puerto Rico
7 November 1987
18 December 1980, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
28 October 1980, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
27 January 1965, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
11 August 1988, Aurora, Colorado, USA
30 April 1986, Savannah, Georgia, USA
27 July 1983, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 July 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
September 22, 2012
What Antin should take away from this experience is that it takes a lot more than a clichéd-filled story, some dancing, forgettable music, and a bland script to make an interesting and engaging musical.
January 03, 2011
Burlesque manages what seemed impossible: It is filled with half-naked dancing girls, yet it's still boring.
December 03, 2010
If you go to Burlesque expecting a campy hoot on the order of Showgirls, you may be in for a disappointment. It's not quite awful enough, although it's plenty bad.
April 15, 2011
...wears out its welcome to an almost astonishing degree...
May 03, 2015
Just terrible enough to make you wish it was even worse.
January 04, 2011
Even the dances feel cozily dated, as choreographers Denise Faye and Joey Pizzi borrow liberally from Bob Fosse.
December 15, 2010
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease.
October 14, 2013
It's totally ridiculous, utterly unbelievable and deliciously naughty as much as a PG-13 movie can be.
March 17, 2011
The alarmingly plastic surgery-ified Cher, with her face looking like a condom stretched over a beach umbrella, gives a performance here as the club owner that's not so much 'still' as 'immobile'.
December 06, 2010
Has the glitz and allure of a Victoria's Secret ad. What it doesn't have is an imaginative reinvention of the show-biz clichés that have so adamantly inspired it.
April 04, 2011
Welcome back, plotline of 1933; you haven't aged a bit.
December 06, 2010
"Get your ass up, show me how you burlesque," growls one of this indulgent movie's indulgent musical numbers that swaggers with pearls, glitter and red lipstick - if not grammatical verb usage.
