Burlesque is the best and great musical movie I've ever seen. As you know, this is musical movie, but song and dance and performance are so excellent, so people definitely listen to the voice every day. The story is that main character overcome challenges to fulfill dream, but this film is not predictable. There are many scenes of her for example,happiness and sadness and anger, so people can feel her emotion through this movie. It is good text for senior high school students and adult because this film push their back. Also, its content is brilliant, so girls and women can enjoy the time. And there are many fashionable cloth in the movie, so they may feel that I'm proud of woman. I recommend Burlesque to people who overcome challenges.

Burlesque (2010): Dir: Steve Antin / Cast: Christina Aguilera, Cher, Stanley Tucci, Eric Dane, Kristen Bell: Total xerox of Showgirls as if that is much of an inspiration. 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. Score: 3 ½ / 10

TL;DR: Good musical entertainment, not a good MOVIE as a whole. Come for music and dance, not for acting and plot. To be enjoyed in musical zombie mode. Straight to the point, Burlesque's musical numbers are exciting and attractive but has almost no plot (at least not as far as it tries to make me care). I watched this with my mother who knows little English so she only enjoyed the musical numbers and the pretty faces. Later, I felt like that was all I enjoyed too. Good thing for the film, the music is frequent and enjoyable.On the other hand, the layers to the story are simple: a financially- troubled club, a small-town hopeful and a love interest. Despite working on very familiar premises for a plot, the film makes no effort whatsoever to make any magic happen. The story doesn't take the back seat, it's in the trunk. I didn't care what happened to any of the characters as long as they lived to perform another song. However, the script-writing does win some points for its witty humor, which would have helped inspire more praises if only the story was as good as the songs.

This is a chick flick to the bone. Now I'm not usually a fan of chick flicks, so obviously I don't like this movie.The script is a huge cliché and it has all been done before, and you're gonna guess what happens very quickly. Small-town-girl with big dreams, goes to the city, doesn't have to fight long to get that star role she wants, has a jealous female enemy, love triangle, gets the hot guy, relationship problems follow very shortly, girl solves problems, forgives the guy and everything is fine again. The end.The only strong parts about this movie is it's musical numbers, obviously, since that is Christina Aguilera's strong side. Since she's a pop star already, she's obligated to be a character that sings in her first (and hopefully last) movie. I'm not against singers in movies, and Aguilera is definitely not the worst I've seen, but her character is so thin and without depth that it goes bad anyway.The songs are good (except the ones they obviously put in to have Cher and Christina sing about their current state of mind), the dancing is very nice and the costumes dashing. I only wish I had seen more of Alan Cumming. His number with the two girls were very similar to the "Two Ladies" number Cabaret. Also, the first scene in the Burlesque club is also a huge reference/rip off to Cabaret's first musical number, which sort of made me a little excited. The biggest problem I have with this movie is that the whole Burlesque club is filled with glitter and expensive costumes and enormous props, and let's face it, Tess's financial problems could've been solved right away if she got rid of even half of those stuff and just toned down the club a bit. It would still be good, the dancer's wouldn't be any worse and it's still easy to make it look good. You don't have to make a Broadway musical to make a show good.I love the art of burlesque (both the old kind and the new kind), and this is NOT burlesque. It is a cabaret, with a little burlesque dancing. But they had to make this movie available to all the teen girls who love Aguilera out there, so actual burlesque was probably out of the question.This movie isn't horrible, but it can't be watched with a serious eye. The poor plot and the thin script is laughable and even with great music numbers, the incredible cheesiness of it all makes me not want to see this movie again.