After Britney Spears’ snooze-fest called Crossroads and Mariah Carey’s near-career-suicide Glitter, Christina Aguilera makes an attempt to debunk the seemingly true idea that contemporary singers are not welcome in the silver screen. I love Britney and Mariah to bits but their performances in their respective first topbilled flicks really disappointed me. (Thank God, Mimi was able to redeem herself in Precious.) This is why I can’t help but be scared for Christina Aguilera, whom I adore as well.
Christina Aguilera’s fourth studio album Bionic was not well-received and there’s just too much undeserved negativity going on around her so I’m starting to fear that Burlesque might even worsen the situation. By the way, here’s the trailer:
After watching the trailer, I had this feeling that it would be a small town girl living in a lonely world going to Hollywood to wear almost nothing on stage cliche. But like what a friend told me, many musicals today are formulaic — Moulin Rouge is cliche as hell, Dreamgirls is freakin’ cliche, even Glee is cliche. What will make or break this movie is the execution.
On the bright side, there are so many other things to look forward to! Christina Aguilera won’t be alone as Cher (yes, she’s still alive) will return to the big screen as one of the leads in this movie. Cher plays Tess, the owner of the Burlesque club that Ali (Christina Aguilera) is working at.
Stanley Tucci will also be in the film. Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane and Kristen Bell, too!
The other night, I downloaded and read the script to Burlesque and I was relieved. The script was funny and entertaining. Yes, the story may be a bit predictable but I know the performances would be EPIC. Especially that they have just released a somewhat raw clip from the movie showing Christina nailing the Etta James classic Something’s Gotta Hold on Me. Here’s the clip.
And here’s hoping that Burlesque would be a success both critically and in the box office.
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