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Christina better be careful or those wonderful body piercings will get snagged in her bustier.

Burlesque may have just killed all the pro-musical good will acquired by Once, Across the Universe, and A Mighty Wind. Who wrote this tripe, anyway? Oh, the guy who did the score to the musical episodes of Buffy. Draw your own damn conclusions from that. I'll go with mediocre TV composer carried by excellent campy performances shouldn't be doing songs and lyrics for a feature length musical.

Hmm. Subtle. Could possibly do with more Bowler hats and black eye-liner.

On the plus side, it turns out Christina can get through a song without all those annoying riffs and unnecessary high notes.

I'm just a girl who cain't say no.

I certainly make no attempt to speak for the entire gay community, and i'm sure there are some of us queers that are dreading this. I am not one of them.

I can't wait. My gay bits are all a-tingle for this mess. Yes, they're pandering to me, and yes, I'm eating it up with a goddamn spoon. Singing, dancing, wigs, and Cammy Baby. I'll be having drinks before it and will be a tipsy gay spectacle, and if you're surprised by the musicalness of it, offended by the overt homosexualness of it, too bad. Don't go. Every couple years Hollywood makes a big gay wreck of a movie in a shameless attempt to swallow some of the famous "Disposable Gay Income," and I'll gleefully fall for it.

And as for being pandered to, isn't that what every movie does? The sad, sappy RomCom panders to the woman that wants to believe that a magical romance can take root thru the postal service, transcend time and space, and end up with the manly yet sensitive ideal husband making her breakfast in bed in the perfect house while her perfect 2.6 children slumber peacefully in the next room. The movies that blow shit up pander to the men that want to leave their dreary desk jobs, blow shit up and partake in general badassery. The sci-fi nerd flicks pander to those that want to be on a spaceship decked out in their steampunk finest. Perhaps I really do want those around me to burst into impromptu song and have us all know the dance steps. Imagine how much more fun going to the bank would be. Lets not all be shocked and appalled at the pandering.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go shine my thigh-high patent leather tap boots and find my Bowler hat. It's probably under my pile of wigs and eyeliner.

I really want to like Aguilera, because when you ignore all the tramp and glitter, wow that voice. So powerful.

It's just that everything else is so very distracting about her.

@The Gay

Comments full of style, humor, and flip pride. You're living the stereotype man! And might I say doing a damn fine and entertaining job of it.

You're absolutely right, if the pandering hits the right spot, why not enjoy the hell out of it?

-Frob

People. We are not digging deeply enough for metaphoric antecedents. Burlesque is Forty-second Street. Warner Baxter: "You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!"

1. CHER! But with the Cher! I love Cher!

2. DO NOT DISRESPECT the Buffy musical episode.

3. I do so love Judy Garland and if that makes me a gay man then sign me up!

Sidebar: I have a Judy Garland as Dorothy magnet in my cubicle. I imagine the day when someone asks my why so I can say, "Because they don't make one of her singing The Man That Got Away".

4. Like Frob, I think Aguilera has a killer voice, I'm just not that enthused about her song choices (except for that Beautiful song, I'm not made of stone) so a non-trilly performance sounds alluring.

5. This apple is clearly not the McIntosh advertised on the bag it came in.

6. I will see this on Netflix because camp requires either a. co-conspirators or b. the privacy of your own home for cackling.

7. I am adding thigh-high patent leather tap boots to my requests of Santa. Right after the request to have all of my wire hangers replaced with wooden ones.

8. Sinnh's evaluation of Across the Universe is more than fair.

9. The Rob Marshall aspect gives me pause. I HATED Chicago. It was like the editor was a whippet on speed. There's nothing, nor should there be, quite like a musical where you can't actually watch the dancing. I'm not a Gere fan, but if he took the trouble to learn to tap dance show him in a full body shot!

10. Because it bears repeating: CHER!

Mrs. Julien,

The Buffy musical episodes were cute TV one-offs. A feature length musical needs a hell of a lot more, especially with Genie in a Bottle taking the lead. The lyrics in that song are atrocious (false and dropped rhymes, sometimes back to back), and I haven't heard anything to indicate they get better from other the trailers. If you're not a brilliant lyricist, you shouldn't do score and lyrics. We're not all Sondheim, and even some of his best work has co-writers involved to make it more accessible. Partnering with another writer isn't a crime and often produces a far stronger product.

I think only the most diehard Buffy fans would claim that every line of every song in the musical episodes was pure poetry and every note just the perfect choice. It was camp sold by a cast of actors willing to let go and have some fun at their own expense.

Speaking as a huge burlesque aficionado, I like The Crazy Horse Paris' choreography better. It is simpler but therefore more elegant, and check out those kicks! Ms. Aguilera does, however, sing "I Am A Good Girl" very well.

Innocently NSFW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsGRHmBwNQ&feature=related

I'm looking foward to seeing this movie but am worried it will be only to see how badly they get burlesque culture wrong. I feel this will be to Burlesque what "Whip It" was to Roller Derby. Oh well, Hollywood.

P.S. I saddened that I live in country where I have to warn that a video like this is NSFW and most "Jackass" style stunt videos are not. What is wrong with us?

As far as I can find, Rob Marshall had nothing to do with Burlesque, but in any case, I think this would have been a better movie with Neil Marshall.

If Ginger Rogers were alive (she was the original Roxie Hart) to see this, she'd be horrified.

That being said I MIGHT POSSIBLY download this. It looks like Chicago with more vadge in it.

well I'm just happy Christina Aguilera isn't yelling her way through a song, and actually shows she can bloody sing...
I do think this kind of movie is a smart choice for her, it requires her to do what she does well (sing and preform) and a minimal amount of acting that she could do with out looking ridicules (at least I hope so)

I am not a huge supporter of Christina Aguilera, I enjoy a lot better Britney Spears along with Lady Gaga ! They're all just bad duplicates of Madona anyways !

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