Sunday, September 29, 2013

The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess a retired dancer and owner of the venue struggles to keep the aging theater alive facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounges troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessmans quest to buy the spot from Tess the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile the life of Ali a smalltown girl from Iowa is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theaters crew she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Alis big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue.

Review

I can easily summarize this film into short sentences. This film has everything everything but a plot that is. What you should expect from Burlesque is almost two hours of high powered entertainment. Burlesque is just that entertaining. If you are going to this film to witness a great storyline unfold don't go see this film. However if you want to be entertained with great vocals from Christina Aguilera and Cher in addition to great acting from Peter Gallagher Stanley Tucci Alan Cummings and again Cher then this film is a must see. I must say prior to the screening that I attended I was very apprehensive that I was going to see a product that resembled a "Nine" Ȭoyote Ugly" blend of a film but I was certainly wrong. Burlesque holds itself above the rest of the films in its category. The film obviously cost a lot to produce and I believe that the money was well spent. Cher's performance was excellent. Say what you want about the person but the actress conveys a confidence level in front of the camera as though she has done this a hundred times. Stanley Tucci is also quite merit worthy in this film. His performance in "Lovely Bones" is still haunting and his role as Cher's righthand gay best friendcostume designer in this film just shows what incredible range this actor has. The costume design casting choreography and set design for this film are also worthy of mention. You can count on this film definitely being nominated in the Best Film in Comedy or Musical category for the Golden Globes in December. This film will also do incredibly well at the box office. I would have no problem watching this film again.