It's like reading a visual review of Fellini's 'eight and a half'.Even with the gorgeous singing and dancing and the solid performance of the actors, all of these resources have become a part of the sermon.Not to mention the old hollywood-style platitudes that pervaded its core.At the technical level, the combination of separate pieces makes no sense at all, so it is not surprising that mechanized pseudo-healing is the result.

A dreary extravaganza that only the Academy (and like minded) could fall for. Overlong and over everything - saddled with some of the most forgettable songs in a long memory. Why waste so much talent on so little substance? Looking at the box office returns the public must have smelled a BOMB or word-of-mouth headed them off at the pass...before they sacrificed their time and money. Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, would have liked being involved with this debauched debacle especially if they let him anywhere near the casting sessions!. Director Rob Marshal tried for another attempt at the success of "Chicago" but came unstuck BIG time. The movies this farce is based on, belong to those groups of pretentious works that were carefully groomed as 'products' - to be promoted as 'art' - along with a group of artists the informed public had little time for - till, the world 'Money Machine' got behind them and made it impossible not to notice them. From there, it became very difficult for honest critics to speak out against them for fear of being ostracized by the 'in-crowd'. Some will enjoy this movie, many more won't.

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother. Nine is one of those films where the Cast is great but the final result is not Daniel Day-Lewis seems like he is bored, Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz feel out of place, Kate Hudson comes out of nowhere, Fergie, Sophia Loren and Judi Dench have some good overall moments and Nicole Kidman could have been better. The whole musical stuff come out in places where the film doesn't really need any singing plus it's very very thin and complexed at times and it is pretty slow if you ask me. Good Cast and Director but that doesn't say much now does it? [3/10]

I admit that I had never expected to be a fan of musical films (probably just because I hadn't even seen any, sseeeshh). Even so, I understand that we can't really expect much from what a musical film has to offer if compared with the real on-stage musicals, just like how the world inside a book will always beat the movie version.But i guess that's what surprised me when i finally watched this film. OK,I obviously know nothing about whatever original version of this musical, but what i gathered from watching this film is that i completely felt like i was watching a frikkin musical on a frikkin stage for the whole duration. Nine doesn't just offer a half-assed effort to create a 'daily-life-like' singing where people just suddenly feel like expressing their feelings through songs on the gd street. No, they don't bother with that. Instead, they present you the whole package by dragging in the stage, lighting, and the goddamn ambiance.It left you stunned a few minutes after the song is over as it gets back into the story, but that's what makes it a fun ride; it drags you along into the euphoria and misery that the characters sing about, and all of those while you're feeling like being there in the stage with them. Nine gives you an experience of both classic musical enjoyment AND modern cinematography.Seriously? with all the amazing actresses who starred in it and their spectacular solo stages, i couldn't stand other musical films afterwards because they all seem too bland compared to this one. but i guess it's just a matter of different taste after all.