She's a queen, love her, best woman ever, great film, best singer and dancer

It took me two tries to get through this movie. Although it did have redeeming qualities, it was kind of boring. If you're a big Mariah Carey fan, I suppose this would be about a 5 but other than that, in my humble opinion, it falls into that "average-bad" category. I can explain what I mean. I've seen a lot of bad movies, for proof you can read some of my other reviews on this site, which are mostly of Bottom 100 movies. When you have seen as many b-movies as I have, some stand out as being alright, while some are just unbelievably terrible and you can't understand how they were ever made. Glitter is between those two categories. It's got some decent music in it, and things do go on (Unlike Gigli or Ishtar). However, it is kind of underwhelming and boring. What really took this movie down a couple of points for me was a unique volume problem. Mariah Carey's acting is okay, but she speaks her lines very softly. This makes me crank up the volume to hear what she is saying. However, leaving it up came back to haunt me later in the movie as there are scenes that are pretty loud and will blast your ears. In conclusion, this is a dime-a-dozen bad movie. It's not super-painful but it's also not quite good enough to be one of those underrated low-budget movies.

I had to stop reading your "review" considering you began with one of the most naive-sounding comments (to those that know what they're talking about).Mariah *intentionally* wore the silver strip (and yes, in different locations) to overly promote aids awareness. Google your facts before commenting on something you think you know about. Still have a problem with the "silver strip"? (I can't capitalize the term aids without it being flagged by amazon for 'shouting' which I'm not sure how that has gone without being red flagged in itself)Literally, this one of the best campy movies ever made which is why it continues to re-run on hbo along with other media outlets. Do you see 'Gigli' anywhere (at all) on TV? No. Give it a chance. Many of my non-Mariah fans have even agreed it's worth the watch.Maybe I'll continue this review when I can stomach the rest of yours.

Glitter (2001)* (out of 4)Mariah Carey pretty much plays herself in the story of a poor girl who grew up without her parents only to work really hard and eventually make it to the top. GLITTER is considered one of the worst movies ever made. Is it? I really don't think so but at the same time there's no question that it's really bad but I think with a little common sense the thing could have worked. There are way too many problems going on here, which could have been corrected and we can start with the screenplay. I'm guessing people just watched every rise-to-fame story out there, gathered all the cliché moments and threw them into this. There's really nothing that happens here that the viewer won't see coming from a mile away and worse of all is that none of the clichés are even given little pinches of something fresh or original. Even worse is the fact that there's really no one here to root for. The Carey character is pretty bland, boring and there's never a single second where we feel bad for her. I'm guess that Carey and company just figured since people knew it was based on her that we'd immediately have a connection with her. It doesn't work this way. You're still playing a character. You still need to bring some life to that character. The screenplay still needs to give that character something to do and the viewer something to feel for. Another major problem is that the new music here is just downright bad and it's certainly nothing you'll enjoy listening to. This here could have been corrected had the film just used Carey's previous hits but I guess they didn't want to pay the extra money that it would have cost to use them. Finally, Carey herself is just downright awful here. No matter if she's happy, sad, angry and calm, she has the exact same reaction all the time. She really doesn't bring this character to life and never is she believable in the part. When you can't get any form of emotion across it's hard to make an emotional story work. Max Beesley and Terrence Howard are both good in their roles but their talents are sadly wasted. GLITTER is a really bad movie but everything wrong with it could have easily been fixed. Sadly, in the end, the producers just took a cheap and easy fix and the viewers had to suffer for it.