Another successful gamble was to make a musical, traditionally a mating ritual, into a female-centric extravaganza. News stories about conflicts on the set and reshoots will only fuel the curiosity factor. Besides, burlesque itself — a stage-show tradition dating to lateth century British music halls — with its risque humor and ample flesh without full exposure , is making a comeback.
Burlesque should seal the deal. No one will give her a job, so with the help of a handsome bartender Cam Gigandet — Love Interest — she creates one out of thin air. She gets that shot, of course, and later gets to display that big Aguilera voice, which rocks the theater.
The Burlesque Lounge teeters on bankruptcy. And so the various plot lines go, serving mostly to inspire song-and-dance numbers from the female performers. Occasionally, a number takes place in the mind of its heroine. Perhaps the entire movie actually takes place there. The songs tip their hats to various showbiz traditions. Instead, numbers are a series of poses built around a prop, like a chair. Hair flies this way, buttocks thrust that way, and arms strike out at abrupt angles.
Antin is in his element here. Cher Tess as Tess. Christina Aguilera Ali as Ali. Alan Cumming Alexis as Alexis. Eric Dane Marcus as Marcus. Cam Gigandet Jack as Jack. Julianne Hough Georgia as Georgia. Peter Gallagher Vince as Vince. Kristen Bell Nikki as Nikki. Stanley Tucci Sean as Sean. Dianna Agron Natalie as Natalie. Terrence Jenkins Dave as Dave.
Chelsea Traille Coco as Coco. Tanee McCall Scarlett as Scarlett. Tyne Stecklein Jesse as Jesse. Paula Van Oppen Anna as Anna. Isabella Hofmann Loretta as Loretta. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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 Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether.
Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town 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 theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue. Drama Music Musical Romance. Rated PG for sexual content including several suggestive dance routines, partial nudity, language and some thematic material.
Did you know Edit. Trivia The photo of seven-year-old Ali with her mother is actually a photo of a much younger Christina Aguilera with her real-life mother, Shelly Kearns.
Goofs You can hear feedback when Ali is onstage and Nikki sabotages the mixing console. You can not create feedback by disconnecting the inputs. Feedback is usually caused by microphones, and since the dancers were supposed to be lip-syncing at this point, the microphones on stage would not be live to create feedback anyway. There's also incredible leaps of logic--Jack is as bartender but then we see him playing piano in the band.
He can do both at once??? Also Ali's rise to fame is ridiculously fast. The acting is terrible. Gigandet is a good actor--but you'd never know it from this. His brief nude scene is nice though: Aguilera can sing and dance--but can't act.
Some of her attempts at acting were embarrassing. Cher seems unable to move a muscle in her face. I love her but she's had TOO many face lifts! On the up side--the singing and dancing and there was a LOT of both were great! The songs were good and the dancers male and female were good-looking and full of energy. The last number is a true show stopper.
He easily throws off one liners in a hilarious manner. And also Gigandet is ridiculously attractive and blows equally hot Dane off the screen. And, best of all, the dance numbers weren't edited by somebody who is ADD addicted. The camera actually stands still a few times and you can SEE the dances. So--is it good? The singing and dancing WAS incredible. I give it a 7 for that alone I should have known better. The fact that it stars Cher and Christina Aguilera is an indication that this is going to be nothing nearly as good as any of those films I mentioned.
The fact that they both get to sing, and Aguilera gets to sing a lot, confirms your worst suspicions. Plot is basic. The whole movie seems like one long Christina Aguilera music video. Accordingly, the music is also pretty bad.
Acting is unconvincing. This really has nothing going for it. Calicodreamin 20 December I have enjoyed watching Burlesque ever since it came out in theaters. Christina Aguilera absolutely slays in this movie. The storyline is well developed, if not a little slow, and sometimes goes off on unnecessary tangents.
Small town girl Christina Aguilera goes to the big city where she ends up waitressing at Cher's Burlesque club. Various sub-plots ensue: Aguilera gets a chance to go on stage and dance, and then sing; a vindictive rival is beset with jealousy at her sudden success; Cher is faced with financial difficulties and has to find a way not to lose the club; romantic issues arise; other bits and pieces. So I was most surprised to discover that I enjoyed this enormously.
As a first starring vehicle for Aguilera it must be marked a success: her particular brand of girl next door wholesomeness, cross-pollinated with sexual trashiness, translates well to the screen, and she sure has got a powerful set of pipes, which is undoubtedly due to her big lungs.
The musical numbers show some variety and are all entertaining though no wonder the club is having financial difficulty given the amount it must be spending on staging its shows The biggest problem is that there is no real jeopardy here - everybody is actually quite nice, and all problems get resolved with the minimum of trouble, so the level of dramatic tension is never very high.
Although, in some ways, it's quite nice to have a movie where you like the characters and the things which happen to them are sometimes a bit worrying but never really horrible.
And there is a lovely relationship between Cher's and Stanley Tucci's characters. Greetings again from the darkness. Just back from a screening and must admit that I was blown away by Christina Aguilera. The film is first and foremost a showcase of her talent Ali Aguilera is a bored, small town Iowa girl who heads off to find the bright lights of L.
She stumbles into a Burlesque club and is immediately enchanted by the songs, the dancers and the overall feel of the place. The club is co-owned by Tess Cher and her ex-husband Vince Peter Gallagher and is headed towards financial disaster.
Local real estate developer Marcus Eric Dane rides in on a white horse and fat wallet and offers to rescue Tess and Vince. Of course, his plans for the club are anything but altruistic.
Meanwhile, Marcus and Jack the bartender Cam Gigandet battle over Ali, though neither are very good at it. While that battle is going on Ali manages to beat out Nikki Kristin Bell for the spotlight on stage. This is when the movie really takes off, musically speaking. From a musical perspective, Cher belts out a couple of solos that easily convince that her pipes are still full strength.
Her two songs are definite highlights and it's a pleasure to see her still in top form. Aguilera has so many numbers that I lost track. Most are average songs at best, but her voice is so unique and powerful that the non-descript songs come off fine. Must also mention Alan Cumming and especially Stanley Tucci. Tucci is clearly the best actor in the movie, though he basically reprises his character from The Devil Wears Prada.
There will be comparisons to Dreamgirls, Moulin Rouge! Writer and first time director Steve Antin pretty much stays out of the way of Cher and Aguilera, while delivering the expected product to his intended audience It regards expression and how a small town waitress ventured to Las Angeles in hopes of becoming a sensation.
Director Steve Antin is backed by several energetic musical numbers that are full of flair but the story is just a recycled mess. Christina Aguilera is traveling familiar territory from small town to big time impressing everyone.
She definitely has the pipes to carry a concert but as an actress she isn't quite as polished as someone in the heights of Cher, but as a musician she holds her own. Cher is the one solid performance as club owner struggling to pay to keep her business. We know that she will be impressed with Aguilera and ultimately save the club, but saving the film is beyond her reach. Eric Dane as the bartender whom allows Aguilera a place to crash is a complete prop. He is basically there to romance her while talking about an out of town girlfriend who is not available just enough so that it becomes unnecessary.
Stanley Tucci plays Cher's gay production director who assists Aguilera while providing emotional support for Cher. Even Kristen Bell makes an appearance and all her charm cannot muster up a hint of originality. The dance numbers are not bad, and sometimes even flashy and inspiring but it is within a screenplay that is anything but inspiring. Not so much about dancing as it is its lame sidetracked subplots that we have seen in a dozen other films about hopeless dreamers.
FlashCallahan 10 July Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, life is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the titular Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theatre's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself.
Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue If you only see one film with Christina Aguilera and Cher starring, make sure it's this one. It's clearly obvious that the makers wanted a vehicle for the singer after seeing her with The Pussycat Dolls, melded the stories of Coyote Ugly and Rock Of Ages, gave it a sassy remix, and this is what came out of its back end.
Its trashy stuff for sure, and the stereotypical characters you see in these sort of films are so blatant, that Tucci may as well wear a T-shirt saying 'Camp assistant who everyone loves'.
But its clearly watchable stuff, released at the height of Glee's popularity to get more revenue, and deep in the story, it's just basically David vs. Goliath, the small good time club, up against the bigwigs who want to open up a massive 'complex'. But complex is something the story is not, and its nothing you haven't seen before. You know she will get the guy, you know the popular dancer before her will eventually warm to her, and you know Cher will become more horse like as the film progresses.
Its a silly film, but entirely watchable. A lot like a Christmas tree in the day, pretty to look at, but not much going on Aguilera is multi talented - she can belt it out in different styles and act as well.
The dance and song numbers are over the top and well choreographed. The camera angles were good - didn't jump around much like some of the recent musicals like Chicago. The supporting cast is top notch. Cher is a bit facially frozen but she is amusing to watch. Kristin Bell is a surprise here - who knew she had the vamp in her. Tucci and Gallagher are good. Eric Dane is just sleazy enough. Cam Gigandet is a cool boyfriend. Loved the old fashioned feel good storyline and neat plot.
The romance is lighthearted and predictable in a good way. No ugly characters and unnecessary angst. The dialog is quite fun and witty throughout. It was like watching a good Broadway musical but with a more attractive cast. One of the more enjoyable musical movies of the past few years.
Wuchakk 24 March She gets a waitress job at a nightclub and eventually talks the owner Cher into allowing her to perform. Cam Gigandet plays the potential beau while Peter Gallagher appears as the club owner's ex-husband and part owner.
Eric Dane plays the arrogant mogul who wants to purchase the club and build condos. My title blurb says it all: "Burlesque" combines the plot of 's "Coyote Ugly" with elements of 's "Chicago," particularly the curvy women and burlesque dancing sequences. While it failed to achieve the moderate success of "Coyote Ugly" at the box office, it's a significantly better movie.
It also has better women, as far as curvy appeal goes with the arguable exception of Piper Perabo, the women in "Coyote Ugly" had the non-curvy shape of 12 year-old boys.
Someone criticized that Aguilera was too "old" for the role. There's a surprising peripheral plot about how homosexual relationships start with 'sex' and proceed from there.
BURLESQUE, written and directed by Steve Antin, is a terrific cinematic definition of what the word 'burlesque' means: 'a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which itself derives from the Italian burla - a joke, ridicule or mockery. The story is predictable and silly and the script borders on mediocre, but with the talent and pizazz of the cast, none of that matters!
Tess has problems with some of her lip-synching cast, namely Nikki Kristen Bell , and is being hounded to sell her club to the wealthy boyfriend of Nikki - Marcus Eric Dane. Ali is persistent and when given a chance to audition she gets into the cast. Her trump card is that she is such a terrific singer that she converts the club away from lip-synching into a full-blown song and dance place. Romance of course flutters in as do other little sidebars including a strange quickie by doorman Alexis Alan Cumming , but the main attractions are the glitzy stage numbers by a surprisingly fine Aguilera and by Cher herself.
It is all very corny and very wonderful entertainment. Definitely worth an evening's pleasure. Grady Harp. With singers making their leap onto the silver screen from Mariah Carey to Britney Spears even though with varying degrees of success, it's taken quite the while for the pint sized girl with that tremendous big voice to cautiously and finally dabble with film, making her big screen debut playing a performer no less, guided by and given her break by the legendary diva Cher.
Welcome to Burlesque, which is probably the cheapest ticket you can find in order to sit in a Christina Aguilera performance. Written and directed by first timer Steve Antin, don't expect a story that will knock your socks off, as playing it safe is the catchphrase here, telling a tale that's been told a thousand times involving a small town girl aspiring to make it good in the bright lights of a big city, overcoming adversary and encountering romance as part of the package called Life.
Burlesque doesn't attempt to deviate from formula about a from rags to riches story, where perseverance is the order of the day if one's talents should be discovered, and a chance given to prove oneself. The opening scene establishes Ali ce Aguilera leaving her waitressing job in Iowa for Los Angeles, and finding herself inexplicably burgled, and waiting for that chance of a lifetime to perform in a cabaret called Burlesque, run by Cher's Tess, the only veteran performer who uses her real singing voice, amongst her posse of beautiful women who gyrate to and lip sync to classics.
Think of it as one Bollywood song and dance routine on stage, with lights, colours, larger than life personalities such as the diva with bad attitude Nikki Kristen Bell. Enter Ali into Tess's life by gatecrashing and working for free on the only job she knows how, picking up moves on the sly and barging her way into an audition which, well, turned out good.
And as they say the rest is history. She's Christina Aguilera after all, so how can one not be surprised by the quality of the vocals and performing routine? What Burlesque made up for its lack of a quality story and clumsy romantic subplot involving the bartender Jack Cam Gigandet and a rich real estate mogul Marcus Eric Dane setting his sights on acquiring the land Burlesque sits on, is that of Aguilera's performance with her powerful voice coming on when Ali has no choice when sabotaged on her lip sync routine, to let the real deal out of the bag.
However even then the slower numbers turned out to be quite a drag, with the film actually coming alive with the more upbeat, electrifying numbers with Aguilera and the ensemble of supporting dancers and stage performers. And those numbers, from Express to Show Me How You Burlesque, are bang for the buck and that's what musicals are made of, with performances, song and music that stand out from the competition, entertaining as hell, without trying to hard to stick a sultry image on Aguilera with the slower numbers in cheesy, cheeky cabaret routines.
These set pieces are what made Burlesque worth that close to two hours to sit through, and one had hoped for an encore performance of sorts when the end credit rolled, which did not materialize. The rest of the film is largely forgettable, with Cher playing a character who's bogged down by money woes to save her club, though her musical numbers You Haven't Seen the Last of Me, and Welcome to Burlesque will leave you wondering why she isn't given more to do, having to disappear in the middle section of the film to may way for the emergence of Aguilera's Ali as the very polished gem to have landed on her lap.
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