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Burlesque
The film is about 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 Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically...
5 November 1982, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
27 October 1978, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 October 1980, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
18 September 1972, Bronx, New York, USA
20 October 1981, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
19 February 1987, San Diego, California, USA
21 July 1974, Diamond Bar, California, USA
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.
January 04, 2011
Even the dances feel cozily dated, as choreographers Denise Faye and Joey Pizzi borrow liberally from Bob Fosse.
October 14, 2013
It's totally ridiculous, utterly unbelievable and deliciously naughty as much as a PG-13 movie can be.
December 15, 2010
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease.
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.
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...
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.
April 04, 2011
Welcome back, plotline of 1933; you haven't aged a bit.
May 03, 2015
Just terrible enough to make you wish it was even worse.
January 03, 2011
Burlesque manages what seemed impossible: It is filled with half-naked dancing girls, yet it's still boring.
