Glitter (2001)
6 %
Reviews Counted: 82 Fresh: 5 Rotten:77 Average Rating: 2.8/10
Consensus:
Glitter is a hodgepodge of movie cliches and bad acting that's sure to generate unintentional laughs. Unfortunately, the movie is not bad enough to be good.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 21, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $3,865,759
Synopsis: With GLITTER, pop diva Mariah Carey shows that she has more to offer the world than just a beautiful singing voice. Carey plays Billie Frank, a shy, young mixed-race girl who is sent away by her alcoholic mother at a very early age. At an orphanage, she befriends Louise (Da Brat) and Roxanne (Tia... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Da Brat, Tia Texada, Ann Magnuson
Director: Vondie Curtis Hall
Screenwriter: Kate Lanier
Producer: Laurence Mark, Mariah Carey
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Screenwriter: Kate Lanier
Producer: Laurence Mark, Mariah Carey
Composer: Terence Blanchard
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Top Critic
The best parts of this dud are the ones in which she's singing. This is what she does best. This is what she should stick to. Save your money and watch her videos for free on cable music-television networks.
03/05/07
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12/30/06
This fails to convince on several levels: Carey's assumed edginess; Beesley's faltering Brooklyn accent; turns from such celebs as rapper Da Brat and soul vocalist Eric Benet; the half-hearted '80s references and the haphazard retro effects.
06/24/06
Top Critic
A disaster like no other, Glitter has as its jaw-dropping highlight what I have to believe is the only scene of seduction by vibraphone ever filmed.
07/05/04
Mariah Carey should have taken an acting class from Marky Mark Wahlberg. The first lesson: start small.
05/20/03
It was almost physically uncomfortable watching the performances in Glitter.
12/17/02
If anyone does shed any tears at Glitter, it's undoubtedly from busting a gut laughing.
12/08/02
Top Critic
your standard-issue "I turned around and I was famous" melodrama, set in an implausibly wholesome-looking 1983 club world, where most of the folks dress oddly, but generally are just about as nice as pie.
06/09/02
If nothing else, at least it killed a career. Max Beesely looks like a porno Luke Skywalker...The Shaggs had more talent.
04/19/02
It's so badly botched that it's entertaining ... for all the wrong reasons.
03/14/02
If poor Mariah Carey suffered a well-publicized breakdown prior to the release of this disposable display, imagine what she'll feel like to learn that she may have appeared in one of the worst ill-advised pointless flicks of the year.
03/04/02
So blatantly takes every bit of its formula to the furthermost extremes, it becomes a comedy.
02/26/02
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01/15/02
Top Critic
Though unintentional laughs are there to be had ... Glitter never quite crosses into the so-bad-it's-good realm to make the film worthwhile.
12/23/01
For all its clichés, Glitter's portrait of stardom is neither more gaudy nor less revealing than other films on the subject.
12/09/01
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