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Burlesque (2010) - Love the stars and the flashing lights like a real fangirl






1 Film Excess nomination:

Best Song: You Haven't Seen the Last of Me - Diane Warren, performed by Cher (lost to The Treme Song - John Boutté for Treme S1)
 
+ Best Music Movie of the Year
+ Best Comeback Actress of the Year: Cher

Cher and Christina Aguilera on the appropriately glitzy poster for Steve Antin's Burlesque

A beautiful, blond songbird with star dreams comes to LA and promptly finds the vampy, incredible Burlesque club, where she begins to work her way up the ranks.

Burlesque is an enjoyable, glitzy trifle. If you're a Cher (Moonstruck (1987)) fan, - and this reviewer sure is, - you'll enjoy her performance, warmth and the two fine songs she performs. Christina Aguilera (Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)) also impresses with her vocal and show talents, making her starring debut here. Cam Gigandet (Twilight (2008)) is the hot roommate, Kristen Bell (The Lifeguard (2013)) is the scheming star of the club, and Stanley Tucci (Shall We Dance (2004)) gives fine life to its backstage homo.
Burlesque is a chick-flick guilty pleasure romance, and if one is in the mood for it, it's a good one of its kind. It's light as a merengue and a fantasy, essentially, - a beautiful place cut off from reality, - that magical place called Hollywood.
Burlesque is the feature debut of actor Steve Antin (Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)), who has written and directed it. 

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Watch a clip from the film here

Cost: 55 mil. $
Box office: 89.5 mil. $
= Big flop
[Burlesque was released November 24 and runs 119 minutes. Filming lasted from November 2009 - March 2010. The film opened #4 (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Tangled and Megamind) to a 11.9 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 39.4 mil. $ (44 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 9.4 mil.$ (10.5 %) and Australia 7.6 mil. $ (8.5 %). The film was nominated for 3 Golden Globes and won one of them, for Best Song (You Haven't Said the Last of Me) as well as 2 Grammys. Burlesque is rotten at 36 % with a 4.8 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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