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1. Lisa Blondell 12.17.09 / 12pm

   Amazing film. And I definitely agree with you about Kate Hudson’s “highly reminiscent” image of Goldie Hawn. It’s crazy. The cast of this film was simply incredible. I felt each and every role was played brilliantly.
2. Skylar Harrison 02.07.10 / 7pm

   Although I agree the film was highly entertaining in both plot and visual aesthetics, the film took on too much. Between the present, full blown dance scenes, and black and white flashbacks, the film was too “in your face.” It is as if it was shouting throughout the whole film, “This will be the best musical of the year.” The choreography was unoriginal, and actually borrowed from Chicago (the stacked cages with dancers). It would have been much more convincing if the style had been focused like Chicago with its Bob Fosse influence. Marion Cotillard stole the show with her understated acting and killer alter ego dance performance.
3. Natasha Amiri 05.07.10 / 6pm

   As I understand this movie had bad reviews, I feel the entertainment came across wonderfully and I can say I very much enjoyed it. I think what was disappointing however was the great array actors, but a bad script to pair it with. The songs were so-so but actors like Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman delivered them with such a bang, you couldn’t help but become intrigued and excited. I loved how there were different plots going on that made the viewer feel they had an inside scoop and dirt on each life while one thing was going that overlapped into another. I thought Marion Cotillard was the most beautiful and soulful actress I have ever seen, and thought she truly made this a wonderful movie. All in all, it could have had a deeper script but the songs and 20’s style fashion with great acting, made for a movie I would recommend to rent at one point. It does it’s job of entertaining and leaves you happy in the end.
4. Aubree Weyrick 10.28.10 / 2pm

   I had high expectations for this film, for I love musicals and the Baz Luhrmann style. (I understand this was not one of his films but I felt the same vibe.) I was extremely disappointed. I was bored the entire way through. The plot was nowhere to be seen, and the musical numbers were dull. I felt as though the film stood still, it didn’t take me anywhere. The dialogue was not moving at all. He couldn’t write a script, and by the end he still couldn’t write a script! It ended the same place where it began. Im sorry to say, it was one of the worst films I have seen…
5. Tanisha Camacho 11.04.10 / 8am

   The cast was great, the setting was to die for, but the problems began, well in the beginning. Daniel Day-Lewis and numerous attractive women, you would think there was no way to go wrong. It was set up to be amazing and took a wrong turn somewhere in the beginning and end. The structure seemed to have too many loose ends, the story didn’t come together in a satisfying way, which is key. Now before I completely bash the film it had it’s positives and they were by no means scarce. The musical acts were quite good, the costume, the actors/actresses and you couldn’t help, but be pleasantly immersed into the setting of Italy and the year they softly and realistically set the film in. In the end through it’s wonderful scenes, strong actors and wonderful idea behind it, in the end it misses the target, not by an enormous amount, but misses it nonetheless.
6. SteveAldana 06.03.17 / 5am

   Nine is one of those films that you watch the trailer over and over again and get excited for a film only to be left disappointed and you begin to wonder had the person that cut the trailer had cut the original film would the film turned out different? It is always fun to do film within a film- this very meta way of filmmaking movies gives the audience the drama and snapshot of the characters and people one may encounter on a set shooting a scene. However, I believe the musical element throws the picture off as well. It worked in Chicago but it does not have the same impact here. Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t sound that great of a singer. It’s like the “russell crowe” effect, In Les Miserables, he begins singing and you instantly know something is off….it sometimes can throw a whole film off. Again someone I know commented on this years ago! Hi Tanisha!

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